Listening to Non native Speakers in the Workplace

Listening to Non Native Speakers in the Workplace

With growing economies such as: China, India, and Brazil. And increasing immigration and globalization and the use of Internet for communication grows.
Speakers of other languages or non-native English speakers meaning English as a second language is an increasing demographic in the workplace. It's important to respect cultural diversity in the work place. There are several different reasons y  native English speakers and non native English speakers can have difficulty understanding each other. Here are a few steps that can be taken to ease difficulty of communication. 1. Non native English speakers can speak very good English but still have an accent from there native language. I think its important to have respect for different accents and to put your self in there shoes if you were to try to learn there native language. 2. I think non native English speakers can get intimidated by native English speakers because there not as fluent and are worried they wont be able to describe what there trying to describe accurately. And I think it's important for them not to worry to much about what there trying to describe because it makes it harder for themselves and further makes it difficult for a native English speaker to understand. 3. Lack of patience sometimes it's a lack of patience. A native English speaker doesn't have the patience to take  more time to listen to a non native English speaker who may have to take more time to describe something. 4. Pretending to understand it's important that if a native English speaker has a hard time understanding what a non native English speaker says. To calmly and politely ask them to repeat or further describe what there trying to explain. 5 I think its rude for native English speaker to correct a non native English speaker.
In conclusion I think its great to have diverse cultures working together in a work place and as long as native and non native English speakers take the mentioned points into consideration it will help ease any difficulty of communication.