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In today's globalized marketplace, many companies have adopted English as their official language of communication regardless of whether a native English speaker is present or not. 

What challenges do international business meetings present?

Different nationalities have very different expectations of what should happen during a business meeting.  

For some, a meeting is not a place where real decisions are made. It is more of an open discussion of ideas and issues not taken into account in the agenda.  

For others, the meeting should have a very strict agenda to finalize decisions and action points within the time allotted.  

Certain nationalities are more likely to expect the meeting to be led by a very strong leader who will invite participants to speak and maintain tight control.

Others consider the meeting to be more of a free-for-all situation where leadership is less obvious.  

All these factors combined with a meeting conducted in the mother tongue of possibly only a small percentage of participants increase the likelihood of an international business meeting being relatively ineffective...unless it is managed VERY carefully.