Publication Date: March 14, 2023
Trust is the glue making communication possible, and a tool leaders must use to expand their skills and grow their businesses.
In The Language of Trust: Communicate to Build Meaningful Relationships in Business and Life, Ingrid Christensen provides an impactful and essential guide to the crucial ingredient that makes relationships, businesses, and communication tick: trust.
This book deep dives into the precise practice of taking meaning from one language and translating it into another, proliferating your ability to connect with people all over the world, no matter what language they speak. Throughout The Language of Trust, you will learn how to nourish relationships and communicate authentically to build confidence and deepen human connection.
Once you learn about developing an organizational identity, cultivating trust with others, and prioritizing time for personal development, you’ll get to do the work for yourself. As a leader, your ability to cultivate trust both at work and home will have a profound impact on your personal and professional life.
Trust directly impacts everything-it’s the key to unlocking one’s purpose, connection, resilience, and growth. Trust is a practice that offers transformation and The Language of Trust shows you how.
Interpreters have an up close and personal stake in building trust as part of their profession. The skills they utilize can also serve as guidance for people seeking to communicate to build meaningful relationships in business and life.
Author Ingrid B. Christensen explores various techniques in The Language of Trust. Divided into 16 chapters, the book serves as a solid resource for using language to build trust. The author shares personal stories as examples, emphasizing the importance of communication.
While many examples are culled from the author’s background as an interpreter, the information she shares is universal. Trust enables both personal and professional growth. As an interesting tidbit, the author marks each chapter with the word “trust” in a different language.
The end result, compiled through more than 100 personal interviews and additional research, is an easy-to-digest resource that highlights the significance of building trust.
The Language of Trust delivers an in-depth exploration into the concept of trust and the impact it has in both personal and professional relationships.
Ingrid Christensen is an entrepreneur, business leader, and advocate passionate about providing equal access to information to everyone, no matter what language they speak. In 2006, Ingrid launched her company, INGCO International after witnessing firsthand how translation and interpreting services truly bridges barriers and connects people from different cultures.
Ingrid, alongside people during some of life’s most vulnerable moments, in hospitals, courtrooms, classrooms, boardrooms, and more, has observed how communication and trust transforms relationships, empowers the underserved, and gives a voice to the voiceless.
Beyond her passion for business, Ingrid enjoys personal development, exercise, music, friends, entertaining, and traveling the world. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her son and dog.
