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Poll: For what region/country do you need to adapt your business communication the most? (UN Geoscheme)
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Adapt? Why? Aug 20, 2025

I can’t remember ever having a communication problem with a client. My regular clients are all from Europe and then I have two or three sporadic customers from the USA, Canada and the Phillipines. Usually our communication is limited to: “Are you available?”,“When will you deliver”? “Thanks very much”.

[Edited at 2025-08-20 12:05 GMT]

Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
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Zea_Mays
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poll results Aug 21, 2025

I wonder what the results (see below) of this poll are telling us - that the US, North/West Europe, Australia ecc., as well as Latin America, Southern Europe and Western Asia are more challenging in terms of a certain type of communication? Or does it suggest that the poll participants mainly come from other regions?

Americas (N), Europe (N,W), Australia/N.Z. 48.4%
Americas (C, S), Europe (S), Asia (W) 22.7%
Asia (C), Europe (E) 7.8%
Asia (E) 7.8%
Asia (S... See more
I wonder what the results (see below) of this poll are telling us - that the US, North/West Europe, Australia ecc., as well as Latin America, Southern Europe and Western Asia are more challenging in terms of a certain type of communication? Or does it suggest that the poll participants mainly come from other regions?

Americas (N), Europe (N,W), Australia/N.Z. 48.4%
Americas (C, S), Europe (S), Asia (W) 22.7%
Asia (C), Europe (E) 7.8%
Asia (E) 7.8%
Asia (S-East, S) 5.5%
Africa (North, South) 4.7%
Africa (East, Central, West) 1.6%
Oceania, Caribbean 1.6%
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Poll: For what region/country do you need to adapt your business communication the most? (UN Geoscheme)






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