You're striving for a more inclusive workplace. How can linguistic professionals help achieve that goal?

Travel: Share anecdotes about how multilingualism enhanced your travel experiences. Cognitive Benefits: Discuss studies on improved memory, multitasking, and even dementia prevention. Cultural Appreciation: Emphasize the empathy and understanding gained from engaging with diverse cultures.

Any company which respects itself should do from time to time language audits in order to: - verify scriptic terminology that gets inside the company and gets out of it - spelling & grammar - style - do proofreading - improve whatever can be improved Language in a company can create a toxic or a healthy environment, so linguistic professionals can make sure the language used is adequate, i.e. doesn't discriminate anyone.

Un lingüista reconoce patrones, así que examinar los textos hablados o escritos de una empresa brinda el corpus necesario para identificar, analizar y posteriormente proponer formas de comunicación respetuosas, corporativas y por supuesto, inclusivas.

Actively listen to people when they speak. Don't judge. Don't listen and think of rebuttals or ways to introduce your opinion on a topic. Listen. Ask questions to learn more. Understand where your team is coming from.

Policy can be helpful when disagreements arise, but by themselves rarely promote institutional change. There must be a mechanism by which these policies are integrated into company culture, either by workshops or training modules.

When it comes to policy development, it is of utmost importance thise be done by the ones who build the policies. They are the only ones who know best what and how language should be used so as to make the policy adequate to the product(s) and/or service(s) that the organisation is launching, to the market, to the moment in history when they are brought to life. And also updates should be made every time it is necessary.

When it comes to accessible materials in an organisation, no matter how big or small, linguists can bring their contribution in various ways. One of them is translating documents into English or from English ino another language, creating best practices or simplifying technical language into more comprehensible text. The success of the company is guaranteed by the quality of each worker and element, and that includes the accessibility of the materials, and the level of inclusion. Materials can be either scriptic or non-scriptic, and the inclusion refers to language, age, race, gender etc.

Creating new materials should be a priority to help all employees, because we can learn a new vocabulary to improve our language skills for ourselves or our custumers. Our language level is essential to perform a perfect job.

We all know that English is the trading language universally. In any organisation which has interns, even though the company stuff cannot rely on them totally when it comes to accuracy in terms of spelling and grammar (unless those interns have lived in an English speaking country or family), those interns have the chance to improve their language skills. The work of translators is essential because they can fill any gap in the written or spoken English. And in the innovation world English is absolutely essential.