Blog Archive - Ann Bayhurst

July 17, 2015

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Presentations – understand questions – accents

Do you know this situation? You have just given a presentation in English. You are not a native speaker, and it wasn’t easy, but you have managed. And here it comes: the first question. You listen and you listen even harder, but all you understand is …

July 17, 2015

by Ann Bayhurst

Intercultural encounter

How on earth shall we stop that behaviour! They keep running out of the meeting to join other meetings, and when they come back, they discuss the other meetings. We need to get our things done in this meeting. Three hundred colleagues have come together to …

July 17, 2015

by Ann Bayhurst

How we stopped a non-stop talker?

– a true story, a participant of my training told many years back: We had this colleague from the U.S. team around. To say it right at the beginning. We liked the colleague. He is a very nice man. And we usually get along well. He …

July 17, 2015

by Ann Bayhurst

Why did the secretary turn red after my politely asking her for something completely normal?

Break in the business meeting in New York. A German delegation and their US American business partners have been discussing all morning. Coffees are served, a snack… You are just noting down a few things, and now you need this thing… to remove some of your …

July 17, 2015

by Ann Bayhurst

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Technically oriented non-speakers

Do you prefer not to remember school, and the English lessons there? Was it just too long ago? Or do you consider yourself a “technically oriented” person who doesn’t feel too keen on speaking foreign languages?