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Improving Effectiveness of Multi-Location Teams - How do you know they’re working?
Tom Connolly, Itac Enterprises
Today, many teams are distributed throughout the world. Sharing a common place of work with all one’s co-workers and managers seems to be the exception rather than the rule. New management processes and practices have evolved to deal with this new reality. New technologies have enabled distributed resources to collaborate much more easily.
However, how is team effectiveness maintained in this environment? If you’re a manager, how do you know your team is working well? If you have a manager, how do you know if you’re delivering exactly what he or she wants? If you depend on peers, how can you ensure that you get and give deliverables at the right time in the right way? Maybe “the system” will take care of it all (once the bugs have been cleared up)? If you have a system that works, are you using it as effectively as possible?
This workshop was developed to address these issues, and it proposes a simple framework that attendees can begin to apply immediately. The workshop is run in an interactive energetic mode, with a high level of focus on “learning by doing” and learning from each other.
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Translation Environment Technology
Juliet Macan, IcDoc
The first attempts to use technology for "translation" derive from ciphering, where the aim was not to make the information available to a wider audience, in other languages, but on the contrary to protect it from unauthorised access. Research into machine translation, terminology and technology, that made widely available personal computers and then internet, have completely changed not just the way we communicate and authors and translators work but also the entire supply and demand for translation.
Challenges: content vehicles, source design, source and target languages, large volumes, limited resources, narrow timescales.
Solutions: authoring technology, content management, terminology management, translation management systems, translation memory tools and quality control tools.
Investments: The benefits of TMs or MT depend on a greater awareness and investment upstream, but also on skilled personnel and training.
This workshop will offer a survey of the various tools available that can make the process more efficient. These tools will include Translation Memory and Terminology Management and Quality Assurance systems. A closer look will be given to the problems involved and the skills required to ensure the process runs smoothly.
Management Development Training
Eszter Avar and Loránd Kis-Tamás, Corporate Values Consultancy Ltd.
"I would like my company to work like clockwork. But we are far from it at the moment. Tasks get forgotten. Deadlines are often not met. Employees just don't seem to do things the way I would like them to. But I can't be there all the time. I am overworked as it is, and I haven't got time to think about the big picture. I am so consumed by everyday minor tasks."
If these problems sound familiar to you then come to our training. There, we will help you to make your company work more smoothly and more manageably.
We are believers in experiential learning - there will be no lectures and long talks about theory. Instead, participants can try themselves out in simulation exercises which provide good models of the managerial aspects within an organisation. The exercises lead to detailed discussion and analysis, during which trainers and participants share best management practices and generate new ideas that you can implement in your own business straightaway.
We recommend our training to all of those who believe that their business could work
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Localization Project Management - Make it clear, keep it simple, make it happen
Tom Connolly, Itac Enterprises
This two-day workshop (Friday and Saturday 25-26 September) takes participants through a robust practical process for managing localisation projects in a simple and effective way. The focus is on simple messages and techniques so that participants can improve their project management performance as soon as they return to the workplace. The sessions are run in an interactive manner and cognisance will be taken of the expressed needs of participants on the day. A significant part of the two days will be spent planning an actual project. Participants are encouraged to bring some of their own current projects, which can be reviewed during the final session. The workshop finishes with a unique time management module based on the work and life experience of the instructor.
A feature of the workshop is the “Lesson Learned” section which summarises the key points and learnings at the end of each module.
The workshop has been delivered in public and in-company settings to many blue-chip clients since 2001 in Ireland, Germany, Finland, Spain and Holland.
The timings of the modules are approximate and used only as guidelines.
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