Category: Blog
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Mentoring: An information highway to more confidently manage change
Why would you care about mentoring amid a global crisis? For the same reasons as at any other time: to help you develop in a way so that you can steer your career in the right direction and make confident professional decisions. It works for the home office, too. I have been working from home…
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6+1 tips to (re)organize your translation projects while in home office
We have created a simple but useful checklist that can help you identify tasks that you wanted to complete long ago. Now is the time to kick off these projects! These days, while working from home, your daily routine – both business and personal – is very different from what it used to be. Priority…
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Burnout, midlife crisis: Does civilisation make us unhappy?
Our civilisation has reached a point where it makes just as many people ill mentally as it makes well physically. However, being aware of that is already part of the solution. Let’s see how we can escape from the trap of a burnout or midlife crisis! My grandparents’ generation had a strange affection for gardening.…
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TV: see no evil?
There are so many ways we can talk about TV. Lately, I have found myself between two extremes: those who see the small screen as being evil and ditch it for good and those who are glued to it as if it’s going out of style. I belong to neither of these groups, but to…
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New Year’s resolution: staying healthy the digital way
Nowadays, when we fall sick, we are not just patients anymore. Our journey through the healthcare system has been transformed into a customer experience. The digital transformation of the healthcare industry promises us longer lives of better quality. Let’s see exactly how we can turn feeling ill to feeling well, the digital way. Prevention prevails…
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7 movies to watch if you are into translation
Translation and interpretation are not exactly the most action-packed professions but it does not mean that someone who practices these professions or the activity itself is never represented on the silver screen. In this blog entry we will take a look at the most famous examples where translation and/or interpretation is an essential element of…
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Inclusive workplaces: Everybody is welcome!
In the fight against discrimination, companies are increasingly taking measures to create accepting cultures and foster diversity. It turns out that what is good for the human soul is good for the business, too. Money and location have traditionally been the top reasons for people to change jobs. However, company culture has recently emerged as…
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Is the future of work remote?
I started as a journalist where flexibility was a given. With the aid of technology, work was only starting to become more flexible and (at least partly) remote work just about made sense. If you think about it, press conferences rarely happen in the editorial offices. On the other hand, deadlines ensured I had to…
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Eco-friendly transportation: what are the options?
Greta Thunberg has crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a zero-carbon emissions boat to arrive at the UN climate summit in New York in order to direct attention to the atmospheric carbon pollution of planes. But what options do we have if we want to choose an eco-friendly form of transport in our daily life? Generally…
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Interpretation in politics
In our present era of globalism, politics has also become a multifaceted domain that tries to overcome the language and political barriers between countries (e.g. the United Nations or the European Union) while, at the same time, it is constantly hindered by this. Therefore, language mediation is an intricate and delicate issue that covers many…
