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Marie Therese Shortt specialises in creating and using visualisation methods to help improve cross-cultural understanding. Her training and workshops are aimed at improving cross-cultural communication in culturally diverse companies and teams, to reduce conflict, tension and miscommunication caused by cultural differences in communication and behaviour.
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Charts show level of agreement from 572 executives in global multinationals.
(Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2012, Competing Across Borders – How Cultural and Communication Barriers Affect Business. London: The Economist).
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