📢 Do you value your voice? 📢

For me, I obviously value my voice – my livelihood depends on it! – but I also know it’s also vital that it sounds ‘right’ for my clients. And by ‘right, I mean calm, reassuring and pleasant to listen to.

In other words, my voice must accurately represent the ‘voice’ of my client. Over the years I’ve been complimented on my pitch, intonation, and my precise and clear articulation in both English and Italian, which are all vital in a good interpreter because delegates may often be listening to an interpreter’s voice for as much as six hours at a time.

My voice is the link between the two parties and helps facilitates the message being conveyed, it never impedes it.

What’s the voice of your company, and what do you look for in an interpreter? Let me know in the comment below 👇

Do you know your worth? 💸

Don’t undersell yourself. 🏃

Work hard at having firm confidence in yourself and what you do. When you value your work, your clients will see that and will follow suit.

As an interpreter, I always remind myself that I’m in a position to provide my clients with an invaluable service – connecting the world, helping seal international deals, closing legal cases and far more. 🌎

You also know that you’re doing your best work and providing massively important services to others.

So continue to build and maintain your confidence. It’s one of the biggest assets in your career. 💖

How are you feeling right now – confident in your services, or in need of a boost?

👇 Share your support in the comments!

Latest Zoom interpreting assignment

I’m often asked if interpreting on stage makes me nervous…

In reality, interpreters are often not even in the same room as the presenter, but given these unprecedented times, they can often be seen on your own PC screen!

This was the case at one of my most recent assignments. The event organiser invited me to interpret on Zoom. This is increasingly becoming the reality for interpreters who are so used to being the background, but this was a really exciting assignment for me, so I couldn’t say no! 🤞🏼

Without giving too much away, I received a call from a client early in the morning ten minutes before interpreting for an Italian video maker and then received the confirmation for this high-level service for 4:30 pm in the afternoon.

As an AS Roma fan, it may have been the best phone call I’ve ever received! 😄 ❤️ ROMA 🧡 AMOR 💛

AccountsCo Partnership Announcement

A globalized world requires a globalized approach 🤝

I’m delighted to be partnered with AccountsCo, an organisation that supports established businesses based outside of the UK expand into the UK by providing them with high-quality UK tax, accounting, legal, import-export & HR services.

I offer specialist certified translations for documents for a range of business services including company incorporation, certificate of good standing, dissolution and VAT registration.

It’s my job to translate Italian legal concepts and terms and communicate them accurately in plain English.

What are you looking for in a legal Italian translator? 🤔

The power of being nice

Never underestimate the power of being nice 🙂

It may sound twee but it’s so true. I don’t have a strategy or sales technique for “closing”, I just try to be nice. Customer service is my absolute number one goal on any assignment, whether it’s translating certifications or in-person interpreting.

And that’s my advice for anyone, whether you’re looking for a translator or interpreter – don’t underestimate the power of human connection. I don’t know about you but I always prefer a phone call over email, because not only do you continue to build that human connection you often reach a resolution much faster ☎️

When you trust someone with either translating your documentation or helping you secure your next business transaction, look for someone whom you can rely on and get along with – a good relationship goes a long way towards a happy result.

What do you think? 🤔

Together we can do so much 🤝 CIOL Conferences

Together we can do so much 🤝

6th & 7th March saw the first-ever Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) conference, which may have been one of the last times we could all be together in one room before Coronavirus grounded our travel plans and moved us online 👩🏽‍💻

I really enjoyed reading about the conference and the feedback from colleagues in this month’s Linguist magazine. I can’t wait to join next year’s conference as a delegate. If you’d like to find out more about it, take a look at the link below 👇

I have been a CIOL member for a number of years now and I always value the resources and support they offer to interpreters and translators. If you’re not already a member I would highly recommend taking a look at what they could offer you to take your skills to the next level.

Are you a CIOL member? What do you think of the organisation? 🤔

Read more about their Conference here:

https://www.ciol.org.uk/ciol-conference-2020-challenge-learn-succeed

Next conference dates are Friday 12 March and Saturday 13 March 2021!