Take a moment to think about how your emotional intelligence showed up during your last team assignment.
Did you notice any areas where you were able to improve your collaboration skills, or any areas where you could develop further?
Share your experience!
As interpreters, our brains are constantly doing the impossible—processing, feeling, translating, regulating—all in real time. But here’s the thing we often forget:
Emotional intelligence isn’t a soft skill—it’s an essential communication skill.
Reflection Prompt:
Think back to your most recent interpreting experience.
What was the emotional tone of the room?
How did it affect your presence, choices, or energy?
How do you navigate tone, body language, or facial expressions—especially across cultures or modalities (like VRI, VRS, or DeafBlind interpreting)?
The best way to learn about other cultures during your work is by surrounding yourself around those cultures outside of your work. That is when you are able to apply in practice what you have learned in its natural enviroment.