Participation in the Editing and Proofreading for Translators course includes:
- Access to the workshop
- Unlimited lifetime access to the webinar video recording
- ProZ.com certificate of completion
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This workshop will give you a brief introduction to the role of negotiation in the professional services you offer.
This workshop is for anyone who feels uncertain about how much to charge for their translation and interpreting services, worried about downward price pressure and longer working hours to make ends meet or afraid of scaring away their clients if they charge higher rates.
Negotiation is an often overlooked yet key business skill for language service professionals.
Good negotiation skills can enhance outcomes for both provider and client, ensuring fair return and mutual benefit. They will also leave professionals better equipped to resist terms not in their best interest.
This workshop will give you a brief introduction to the role of negotiation in the professional services you offer. It will also give you pointers about potential pitfalls and draw attention to areas of opportunity. Emphasis will be placed on recognizing and correcting your weaknesses, as well as on leveraging your strengths while nurturing your client relationship. The importance of placing oneself on an equal footing from the outset will also be addressed.
After a brief introduction on how I see negotiation in the professional’s working life, I will illustrate the importance of knowing yourself, your market and your client. The session will be completed with a question and answer session in which participants can share their experience and offer solutions to the most common problems faced by language service professionals when dealing with clients.
✓ 2 June 2022: Live 90-minutes workshop with Jason
✓ Recordings for registered attendees
✓ ProZ.com Certificate of completion
Jason Willis-Lee, MITI (www.jasonwillislee.com) graduated in physiology after training as a doctor for over three years at Bristol Medical School (UK) including one year’s full hospitaltraining. He put in a brief stint as a clinical research associate before switching into applied linguistics and earning a postgraduate diploma in translating and interpreting from the
University of Bath (UK). He now lives and works full time in Madrid as a self-employed translator (niche fields: clinical trials, medical reports and academic research articles) in the Spanish-English (ITI certified) and French-English language pairs. He is a very keen translator trainer and has previously given varied presentations aimed at translators and interpreters to
ProZ, BP and the CIOL. He organized the specialization conference thread at the Elia Together conference for freelancers and LSPs held in Athens in 2018 and also cofounded the collaborative networking translation project medico-legal translations -
www.medicolegaltranslations.com.
Who is this course for?
All translators and interpreters. No previous experience needed.
Join the Spotlight Training and follow the link to your course at your My Courses page: https://www.proz.com/translator-training/my-courses You will have unlimited lifetime access to the materials purchased.
