Project managers and project teams that function globally must develop a sound communication strategy in order to ensure success. Author Jean Carlo Binder, in his book, “Global Project Management: Communication, Collaboration and Management Across Borders”, extols the virtues of developing a good strategy early on in order to “reduce misunderstandings between stakeholders from different country and company cultures communicating over distance. The main interested parties must work together to define this strategy, creating the project communications management plan”(Binder, 2007). Binder lists the three main steps to prepare a global communications strategy as “identifying the types of information to be communicated, gathering the communication requirements from the key stakeholders, and determining how the communication will effectively happen” (Binder, 2007).  Just as organizations have learned that “effective communication among people from the same culture is often difficult; ours and other businesses must accept that it is extremely difficult when attempting to communicate with people from a different culture who do not speak English, and have different attitudes, ideas, assumptions, perceptions, and ways of doing things. One’s chances for miscommunication increase enormously “(Adekola & Sergi, 2007).

Adekola, A., & Sergi, B. (2007). Global business management: a cross-cultural perspective. (p. 173). Ashgate Publishing Group.

Binder, J. C. (2007). Global project management, communication, collaboration and management across borders. (p. 101). Burlington, VT: Gower Publishing, Ltd.