By Markus Spsike We all strive to better ourselves as professionals and to be leaders within the translation industry in order to improve our businesses and personal brand. In this article, I will highlight the importance of emotional intelligence skills in your daily work and when working within a team. For me, it is a must-have, and mastering emotional intelligence can improve your professional and personal life.  First, let’s explore why emotional intelligence is important in a business environment. Emotional intelligence is defined as the capacity to control, express one's emotions, handle and be aware of interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. It sounds just like what you would look for in a manager or senior team member, a leader who will be able to guide and improve a team’s performance. Some of these responsibilities include decision-making, coaching, mentoring, developing the team's skills and managing conflict, to name a few. Emotional intelligence...

Recruiting freelance translators is easy. Outsourcing work to freelance translators is easy. Paying freelance translators is easy. But what about recruiting, outsourcing and paying other translation companies?  By Christina@Wocintechchat In an ideal world, a database would be 20% freelance translators and 80% translation companies. It would make things so much easier! Project Managers could allocate entire projects to one supplier, without worrying about splitting files, coordinating deliveries, lengthy quality checks etc. Unfortunately, that is not how it usually happens in the real world. Working with translation companies can get very messy and stressful for a Project Manager. A small mistake can leave you with thousands of words untranslated the day before the deadline. It is true that this can also happen when working with freelancers, but the amount of work allocated to a freelancer is usually much smaller.  While working at Xerox, I resourced a job to a company that dea...