Mentoring and business support
One-to-one or group sessions tailored to suit the needs of your freelance business
Mentoring for all
Available for both new starters looking to set up a freelance business and for practising language professionals wanting to revamp an existing business in today’s very challenging and competitive business climate.
Tailored sessions
All sessions are individually tailored to the specific needs of the mentee and their particualar business and can be:
- Face-to face
- Remote via Skype, Zoom, WhatsApp, Teams, telephone, etc.
Mentoring rates
Hourly (individual) rate: £50.00
Full day (group of two or more) rate: £400.00
Half day (group of two or more) rate: £200.00
Help for your freelance business
Mentoring can be about anything you want it to be about such as helping you to draft honest, legal, and non-misleading professional content for your:
- CV
- Business cards
- Website
- LinkedIn and other social media profiles
- Terms and Conditions for your on-site and remote interpreting, and translation services
- Business documents such as Invoices, Estimates and Quotes
Legal and Business English Mentoring
- To assist you with your oral and written business communications
- Sessions can be one-to-one or in groups
- Rate is £50.00 per hour with a 10% reduction for groups of more than two mentees
“Thanks for a really informative session last night…there’s definitely a need for more business training for interpreters as the plethora of questions showed!”
Wendy Ledeux, Director of Linguistpd
Selected Publications
ITI Bulletin Jan/Feb
Police and Court Interpreting and Professional Attitudes
ITI Bulletin Nov/ Dec
Opportunities for Interpreters as Expert Witnesses
ITI Bulletin Jul/Aug
Fight or Flight?
ITI Bulletin Sep/Oct
What’s In a Name?
ITI Bulletin Mar/Apr
Speak up, Speak out!
ITI Bulletin Jul/Aug
Riding out the Recession
ITI Bulletin Jan/Feb
After the Genocide
ITI Bulletin May/Jun
The Rates Debate
ITI Bulletin Jul/Aug
Adversarial Interpreting
ITI Bulletin Sep/Oct
Future Proofing the Profession
ITI Bulletin Nov/Dec
Feel the Heat – Second International IAPTI Conference in Athens
ITI Bulletin Jan/Feb
Quality in Legal Translation
ITI Bulletin Feb/Mar
Bilingual Video – Conferencing in Legal Settings
ITI Bulletin Jul/Aug
Out of the Shadows; Cracking the Code of Conduct
The Linguist 4/Vol. 55
Channel Vision
The Linguist 6/Vol. 55
Northern Ireland: Day in Court
ITI Bulletin Jan/Feb
Linking up in Lincoln
ITI Bulletin May/Jun
A Hebrew History
The Linguist 1/Vol. 56
Cutting Work
The Linguist 4/Vol. 56
Becoming the Voice of Terror
The Linguist 5/Vol. 56
Voice of Modern Slavery
ITI Bulletin Mar/Apr
Legal Action
ITI Bulletin May/Jun
Not Your Usual Assignment
ITI Bulletin Jul/Aug
Wake up and Smell the Robots
The Linguist Oct/Nov
In Harm’s Way
ITI Bulletin Nov/Dec
Legal International
ITI Bulletin Jan/Feb
IAPTI Update
The Linguist 2/Vol. 58
Grooming Words
The Linguist 5/Vol. 58
A Legal Challenge
ITI Bulletin Nov/Dec
The Rules of Asylum
The Linguist 4/Vol. 59
The Final Word
The Linguist 6/Vol. 59
To Sign or Not to Sign?
THE LINGUIST 4/VOL. 60
CV19, WFH and RI
THE LINGUIST 3/VOL. 61
Interpreting Murder
THE LINGUIST 5/VOL. 61
A Case of Control
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