TRAINING 

The process to create your custom training:

1. We meet to discuss your goals and customize a training agenda.

2. We choose examples from your own communication to use for practice.

3. You participate in anywhere from one 90-minute training to multiple 3-hour trainings. 

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Outcomes and discussion includes:

• Why and when to use simplifying skills. Know the audience.

• Impacts of language exclusion and overcommunication.

• Reduce text by 20-80% without impacting content or tone.

• Tools to better organize writing and improve readability.

• Ways to check for comprehension and shift the responsibility of understanding.

• Choose words that are 100% clear and transparent for your audience.

• Avoid words and phrases that are challenging to translate and for English learners.

• Tips on sentence structure, lists, acronyms, and accessibility.

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Other training topics include the following, and you can pick and choose topics!

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Blend AI Best Practices with Human Simplifying Skills (1-2 hours)

• Discuss risks, harms, benefits, and your relationship with AI.

• Best practices and effective AI prompts to draft or edit writing.

• Different roles AI can take.

• Practice comparing original versions to AI simplified versions.

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Lead Engaging Presentations (1-2 hours)

• Engage your audience every 1-2 minutes, both online and in person.

• Begin presentations with audience connection before content.

• Create effective, accessible slides that balance story telling with data.

• Ask powerful questions and respond to challenging questions or behaviors from participants.

• Create strong endings with a review, effective Q&A, and clear next steps.​

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Facilitate Meetings Efficiently and Inclusively (1-2 hours)

• Clearly define and align objectives and goals. (Desired Meeting Results or DMRs).

• Facilitate more meaningful and concise introductions and updates.

• End meetings with clarity about deliverables, timelines, and ownership.

• Navigate diverse communication styles and common cross-cultural differences.

• Better navigate conflict using active listening and paraphrasing skills.

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Clear and Compelling Messaging and Public Speaking (1-2 hours)

• Adapt your message's complexity and details according to different audiences.

• Be concise while maintaining your intended precision and tone.

• Speak clearly and confidently by managing pace, filler words, and nervousness.

• Structure messages in different ways using templates and tools.

• Share your “why”.

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Contact me to discuss customization, timing, and cost.

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Trainings are in person or online...and always engaging!