Professional Performance, All the Time! Part 3

Master dynamic communicative mediation (DCM) to handle interpreting challenges with confidence and precision.

Ideally, every interpreter can always interpret every idea and nuance in every speech: respecting the substance and form of the original, dodging the numerous traps, and dealing dexterously with all the intricacies of the languages in question. Humor, irony, technical terms, reasoning, emphasis, abbreviations, quotes, ambiguities, and the like are all expertly conveyed and we leave the booth with our head held high.

However, in the real world this is far from always the case, even for stellar interpreters. The less experienced you are, the more often you will find it impossible to deliver a hundred percent on the legitimate demands of the delegates; or as an experienced practitioner, you may decide that brevity better serves communication in a particular case. This is when you need to apply DCM!

In this webinar, you will begin learning how to:

1. Remain in charge in every situation in the booth.
2. Prioritize and prune, using concision and accuracy to gain “brain space.”
3. Honor and convey the true meaning and reasoning of your speakers.
4. Build interpreting resilience and professionalism.

About the Presenter

Chris Guichot de Fortis is a member of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) with an MA from Cambridge University and an MA in conference interpreting (University of Bath). He was a professional tennis player and served 10 years in the British police. He worked as a NATO interpreter during 1988-2021, and for 10 years organized the NATO recruitment tests and training program for interpreting students. He has organized volunteer interpreter teams for several non-governmental organizations. He has taught or examined in a dozen schools and is chair of the Belgian AIIC Trainers’ Network (BANT). He now works as a freelancer and coaches interpreters, mainly for B-language improvement and for tests in international organizations.