As a professional translator for a Portland Translation Services company, I first noticed that I have some natural abilities to work with people. It was at this Houston Translation company where I learned that the most important skill needed by translators today is the ability to get along with diverse people including clients and interpreters and that is regardless of the type of project that a person is working on. Like I said earlier, having good relationship building skills works to your advantage when working on large and very complex projects or working on a simple one page document for a local law firm in the Woodlands. Without a doubt, building relationships in all aspects of translation work is extremely important.

While people often stood in amazement over my skills, I believe that I have always had this ability. Was this special gift that only some people in this world have been given? Maybe I have a special ability to create lasting bonds with others. Maybe I learned these skills early in life. Would this unique skill be something that I can teach other translators? I thought that I would give it the old college try. After 22-years and 4 months of German Translator experience that has introduced me to a wide variety of cultures, I know that visual communication is just as critical as non-visual communication. I came to the conclusion that by selecting the right words, using the right vocabulary and altering my vocal tone and expressions that I could make people feel more relaxed. My third realization was that in any language, there are words that can evoke expression, mood and action. That’s when I decided to invest more time to analyzing this topic. Every day we encounter workers or even clients or potential clients who are easier than others. Sometime I ponder over why a person who I have just had a discussion with seems extremely interesting but my friends find the person lackluster. You must agree that a biological action must be taking place that we are yet to understand.

About this time, I began looking for information on training, shaping and controlling our minds through subliminal messaging and imagery. These two medical researchers, Dr. Bandler and Dr. Grinder, had begun to recommend procedures that I had been applying in my translation work for many years. Not only did these men develop groundbreaking findings in the area of our subconscious mind, they also determined that everyone has a favorite sense. Find this sense and you have the key to unlock a person’s heart and mind. My research was finally becoming more clear. With this in mind, I paused my work in the field of Medical Translator and was determined to devote my time to studying social behavior. Over the next few years, I studied and earned a license as a Master Practitioner of NLP. With the completion of this program, I went back to my initial research and made some exciting findings about how spoken and non-spoken communication can be used to influence human behavior. The results of my work were later heralded by famous psychology journals and embraced by training given by the American Translators Association.

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