Simplify Language
TRAINING AND SERVICES
Customized to achieve your goals
Simplify Communication Training
The process:
1. We meet to discuss your goals and create a training agenda that focuses on your priorities.
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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Sample agenda, including engaging discussions and activities:
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Discuss impacts on trust, access, efficiency, inclusion, recruitment, retention, and more.
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Learn 5-10 skills to simplify writing, speaking, or both.
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Practice skills in small groups using communication for your organization.
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Learn to organize and reduce writing by 20-80% without removing content or “dumbing down”.
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Build awareness of language exclusion, power, and privilege.
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Use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make writing more accessible.
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Discuss accountability and ways to support each other.
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Contact me to discuss customization, timing, and cost.
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Training is in person or online...and always engaging!
Simplifying Services
We simplify websites, newsletters, job postings, and more so they are more accessible and inclusive. ​
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Contact me for costs and a free sample simplification of your written communication.
Facilitating and Presenting Training
​​This custom training provides actionable ways to make the following more engaging, effective, and efficient:
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Presentations
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Meetings
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Classes
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Workshops
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Events and Gatherings
Sample agenda: ​
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Learn skills to lead engaging, effective, and efficient presentations and gatherings, online or in person.
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Learn to foster conversations where participants contribute ideas and learn more effectively.
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Discuss specific ways to make meetings more efficient.
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Practice speaking clearly and briefly about your vision and goals in 15-60 seconds.
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Learn and discuss public speaking skills.
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Practice facilitation and public speaking in small groups using relevant topics.
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Create consistent structures and guidelines for public speaking and gatherings.
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Create a culture of practice and feedback around facilitation and public speaking.
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Contact me to discuss training length, costs, and customization.
Expectations
To work with me requires 3 things:
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Humility. You must recognize that you can do better and dedicate a few hours to training.
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Empathy. You must be aware of what your audiences want and need.
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Practice. The skills are not brain surgery, but like all skills they require practice.
Having fun is a bonus, and I’ll make sure the training is challenging and fun.
If this sounds like you, let’s talk!