"Feedback? No, You Did Great!" Practical Approaches for Analyzing and Discussing Our Work

*Note - this session will not be recorded for asynchronous viewing. Please register only if you plan to attend live on Saturday, January 31, 2026, 1:00pm-5:00pm ET. *

This Professional Studies program is offered for 0.40 PS CEUs at the little/none Content Knowledge Level. RID HQ is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities.

You just finished interpreting a teamed assignment, and the other interpreter turns to you and asks if you have any feedback. Is your initial response to create space for conversation about the work? Are you inclined to tell your team about the awesome depiction they incorporated? Share the minor detail they omitted? Or do you reply with “Feedback? No, you did great!”

In this workshop, we will share ideas for initiating and developing note-sharing relationships with colleagues and demonstrate what we usually call “doing notes.” We will also offer practical ways to analyze and discuss interpreted work, describe categories for interpretation analysis with examples from interpreting samples, and provide some hands-on practice. We will demonstrate options for analyzing interpretations by reviewing target messages as stand-alone utterances, comparing them to source messages, and brainstorming alternatives for various purposes. 

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. Develop strategies for initiating and developing note-sharing relationships with colleagues,

2. List categories for interpretation analysis, as well as identify instances from interpreting samples, &

3. Analyze interpretations by reviewing target messages as stand-alone utterances, comparing them to source messages, and brainstorming alternatives for various purposes.