Delivered? Delivered. Some words just difficult.
For us it's so important to speak in English because we have a lot of clients
in the world and we need to communicate with them.
I need to talk with United States. Sometimes I need to talk with
India, Deutschland, Germany, Denmark
China, Spain, France, just in English.
In Brazil we have the last years, the eyes of the world.
For the big events that we are expecting to have here in Brazil in
2014 and 2016, we talk about terrorism, we talk about logistics. So we talked about
all sorts of risks that concerned a big event.
Having the right communication is
crucial to avoid any type of misunderstanding.
We have nowadays 1,200 employees in Brazil
and I believe 200 or 300 in maximum speaks English.
Unfortunately it's hard to find a talent here in Brazil that join both the
technical aspects of the products and also the ability of speaking English in
order to provide this kind of advice to our multinational clients.
Houston, we have a problem.
We have in Brazil a high potentials program. In this program is important to
identify the new managers to AON.
They need to speak English to stay in one month
in our head office in the United States to understand our business in other level.
Seven years ago, I didn't speak English. Five years later
I'm speaking English well, I think.
This is our language business and this is not negotiable.
The world is big
very big and we have a lot of culture, different ways to live.
It is impossible to understand without speaks English.
When you can speak the same language and to understand their necessities in their behaviors.
In this moment you can make good business.
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