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Doing Business in the United States

When you have a business meeting in the United States, come to the appointment on time. Americans consider it extremely bad manners to be late. You may be offered coffee, and then you should immediately announce the reason for your visit. It is important to speak directly and clearly about your subject. Be prepared to discuss details and be ready to answer questions. If yo

ur host disagrees with you, he will say so, and you may disagree with him too – politely, of course!

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appointment announce details

consider important ready

extremely directly disagrees

offered clearly politely

immediately prepared

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It’s the 23^rd of December, 10 o’clock in the morning. Mr. Smith has come to the Ministry for Foreign Economic Relations. Now Smirnov is meeting Mr. Smith in the conference room.

• Good morning, Mr. Smirnov.

• Good morning, Mr. Smith. Will you take a seat?

• Thank you. It’s very frosty in Moscow now, isn’t it?

• Yes, it has been very cold this month.

• How is your business, Mr. Smirnov?

• Fine, thank you. We’ve justed selling machines of a new model and we’ve received a lot of orders for them.

• Yes, we know that. We have studied your latest catalogues closely and we are interested in buying some machines of this model.

• Glad to hear that. The new model is certainly good. It’s of very high quality.

• Well, Mr. Smirnov, I’d like to look through your contract form.

• Here you are, Mr. Smith.

• Thank you very much. Let’s meet again next Wednesday and discuss the terms of the contract.

• All right. Good-bye for now.

• Good-bye.

3) Ответьте на следующие вопросы:

1. What company are you from?

2. Do you sell or buy goods?

3. What goods do you sell to foreign companies?

4. Are these goods of high quality?

5. Do your goods always meet the requirements of your customers?

6. Have you discussed any business matters this week?

7. What matters have you discussed?

8. With whom have you discussed these matters?

9. Have you received many or few orders or the goods?

10. How many machines would you like to buy?

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Tips on Business Meetings: Groundrules

A top tip on holding business meetings is to use groundrules. You can develop a set of ground rules for a meeting, to ensure that people understand the “terms of engagement” during a meeting. Here are a few example groundrules to get you started:

• Only one person at time talking

• Meetings will start and finish on time

• Confidential information will “stay in the room”

• No jargon or in-talk

• No discussion of ideas until all ideas heard

• Encourage full participation from all attendees

• Keep discussion on topic, and focused

• If you agree to do something, do it.

• If you can’t attend, send a suitable, informed, delegate instead.

You get the idea – you can use some, none or all of these ideas for ground-rules, just make sure they work for the people in the room.