Professional Performance, All the Time! Part 1

Discover how the right mindset can help you balance excellence, competition, and personal growth.

As language professionals, we want and need to develop and grow constantly. We fervently hope to satisfy our clients, render an impressive service, and stay happy and fulfilled while doing so.

But this world throws us so many curveballs, there is so much competition, and what we do is simply hard! As performers, we’re constantly judged, assessed, always auditioning. It can be very difficult to overcome the pervasive negative talk and indeed (often unacknowledged and unidentified) negative self-talk. So, how are we going to develop and maintain the mindset that will guarantee reaching these goals?

In this webinar, you will begin learning how to:

1. Heal your relationship with yourself as you perform.
2. Grow and develop constantly when performing professionally.
3. Grow in confidence and inspire trust in colleagues and clients alike.

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.