Learn how to shift and adapt our communication to different audiences quickly. You can do it, but it requires skills, practice, and intention.
This will be a highly engaging
virtual session, with breakout room activities and opportunities to engage in the chat. We encourage you to keep cameras on, if possible, especially in breakout rooms. There is a refresher/follow-up on June 6, 2025 from 830-930 AM.
Agenda and outcomes
• Learn skills so all audiences can quickly and easily understand your communication.
• Practice organizing and reducing writing by 20-80% without removing content or “dumbing down”.
• Learn ways to make communication in English easier to translate effectively and efficiently.
• Build awareness of language exclusion, power, and privilege.
• Learn how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can improve your writing.
• Deepen understanding of your target audiences and their communication priorities.
• Improve trust, efficiency, inclusion, recruitment, retention, and more.
The challenges these trainings address:
• People feel excluded, disempowered, and trust you less when they don’t understand you.
• People don’t read communication that is unnecessarily long.
• Almost nobody tells you when they don’t understand you.
• Translations can fail to expand access if the English version being translated is not accessible and inclusive.
• Inequities of power and privilege will continue to worsen these problems if we don’t discuss and address them.
Presenter:
Lee Shainis (he/him)
Founder, Simplify Language
Be understood. Be inclusive.
Simplify Language
