The Director General, the colleagues of MOSCOW Ltd. firm and their foreign business partners have gathered to discuss the foreign business trip of our colleagues

Mr. Evdokimov:Hi. How’re you doing? Is everyone here?

Mr. Andreev:Galkina is absent.

Mr. Evdokimov:But, we must begin without her. Somebody

call her.

Everybody knows Mr. Volkov and our

partners from British firm have just arrived

from London. They’ ve come here to help us

to prepare our staff more carefully for the

business trip to London, because our people

will be working together with them at their

office for a few months.

Mr. Andreev:Sorry for my interrupting you, but I called

for Miss Galkina. I was told, that she had left long

ago.

Mr. Evdokimov:O.K. thanks. I hope she won’t make us wait too

long. I continue. Let me introduce our foreign

partners to you. Miss Lora Miller, from

London, she is the Sales Manager.

Miss Lora Miller:Nice to meet you. For you everybody, call me

Lora.

Mr. Evdokimov:And one beautiful representative from London

- Betty O’Henry.

Betty O’Henry:Nice to meet you. Call me Betty.

Mr. Evdokimov:O.K. dear ladies, now let me introduce you my

staff. You have already known our commercial

director Mr. Volkov. He had been working at

your firm for five months. I also want you to

meet Mr. Andreev, our representative in

Togliatti. He is the Sales Manager.

Lora and Betty:Glad to meet you, Mr Andreev.

Mr. Andreev:Call me Pavel.

Mr. Evdokimov:He is our Export-Import Manager Mr. Voronov

Sit down, please, Mr. Voronov. A cigarette?

Mr. Voronov:No. Thank you. Call me Oleg.

Mr. Evdokimov:Vladimir Smirnov is our lawyer from Kiev

Mr. Smirnov:Vladimir for everybody.

Mr. Evdokimov:And now tell me please, what do you think

about my idea of broadening your mind ?

Mr. Andreev:As for me, I think it’s great to learn new things

every day. It, of course, broadens your mind,

teaches you how to live and communicate with

people who are quite different from you.

Voronov:It is especially fine with me to get all

information about business abroad,

because it is very difficult for me to get used to

my new environment, and abroad it will be the

most difficult for me. That’s why I hope to get

some tips from our foreign colleagues.

Lora:Yes. You are absolutely right. Because good

advice is beyond price.

Miss Galkina:Hello! My god. I am so sorry I kept you

waiting. But I’ve got a valid (reasonable)

excuse. Please, forgive me.

Evdokimov:Let me introduce our secretary, Vera Galkina.

Vera, could you make coffee for us please.

Vera : Certainly, sir. What coffee do you prefer,

Miss Betty and Lora, black or white?

Betty:Black, please.

Lora :Me too.

Vera : With sugar?

Lora and Betty (together): No, thanks.

Evdokimov:By the way, ladies, as a manager of this firm

I’d like to know, first of all what qualities are

the most important for Englishmen?

Betty:It is difficult to find universal agreement on

the specific personality and professional

characteristics which make a good manager.

Teambuilding usually aims to cover a range of

qualities as one individual cannot have all the

positive management attributes. But I can

enumerate some of the most important for me,

For example: ability to get on well with

colleagues

· technical knowledge

· experience of management

· ability to make people laugh

· willingness to work up to 60

hours a week

· confidence in making decisions

· concern for well-being of every employee

from the top to bottom of an organization

· ability to understand the details

of company activity

· ability to plan and understand corporate

objectives

· knowledge of the world

· highly educated and cultured

individual with wide range of personal

interests

· commitment to making money

· stable health and psychological make-up

· supportive family

· ability to motivate

· ability to delegate and so on…

Volkov: Ireckon, that every good manager knows

about such qualities. But in this case, easier

said , than done.

Vera:Sorry for my interrupting, but here is your

coffee, miss Betty and Lora.

Lora and Betty (together): Thanks a lot.

Evdokimov:By the way, Vera, what happened to you?

It is impolite to be late, isn’t it?

Try to remember what our heroes talked about.

Mr. Evdokimov came together with his foreign colleagues, who had just arrived from London. He introduced them to his staff. Mr. Evdokimov asked English ladies to tell about the work duties of every employee.

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