Blog: Translation Services

When it comes to collaborating, there are often two schools of thought: two heads are better than one or too many cooks spoil the broth. Finding the balance between centralising your Internal Comms translations and keeping local-market teams in the loop, can be tricky.

How do you navigate international marketing during a pandemic when every country – even some individual regions within those countries – has been impacted differently?

We’ll start this blog with a word of caution: English is not a universal language. Whilst believing that won’t stop you ordering a croissant in Paris, it could be very damaging for a global workplace.

How many times do you think you uttered the words, “you’re on mute” last year? The pandemic shifted how and where we work overnight and organisations had to quickly adapt. For L&D teams this meant two huge shifts:

With Covid-19 very much still present in our lives, at Comtec we’ve spent a lot of time recently reflecting on the good, the bad and the thankfully not too ugly from the past 10 months.

With your new translation partner now on board, here comes the fun part, translating your L&D content so it works for your global audience.

The world has transformed in a matter of months. In response to Covid-19, we’ve all had to change the way we live, socialise and work. L&D teams are under pressure to not only develop and update learning and training content, but translate it for international teams. It’s more important than ever to communicate with our

Your translation partners are an extension of your L&D team. Just like when you’re hiring internally, there are some key considerations and questions to ask when outsourcing translations to a translation agency. Whether you want to switch providers, or are hiring a translation company for the first time, it can feel like a big job.

My experience working with our L&D clients is that they’re all united by one goal: to improve learner engagement and positive learner outcomes. Whilst great artists might have years to work on their masterpieces, L&D teams do not. You’re under pressure to not only create engaging learning programmes, but translate and deliver it internationally, all