From the course: Communicating Across Cultures
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Understanding time orientation and speaking styles
From the course: Communicating Across Cultures
Understanding time orientation and speaking styles
- It was the first get to know you meeting with a new client in a different continent. The members of the team I was working with were ready to send over a friendly email introducing the team and an agenda for the first gathering. "Hold on", I told them, "Are you sure that this is the right piece?" You don't want to come across too formal, too task-oriented, or too pressed for time. A culture's time orientation can reveal how people in that culture communicate. The key is for you to figure it out and then flex your style. In a polychronic time culture, many messages are communicated at once. For example, in Portugal, Lebanon, Ghana, Kenya, Columbia, or Chile, you will see several conversations happening at once in a meeting. Conversation may seem to go in circles and not have a purpose. This should give you a clue that you must take your time with communication. In the monochronic time culture, messages are shared…
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