Course Description
When communicating, your audience may include donors, chancellors, or students and colleagues from diverse backgrounds. Effective communication is fundamental to collaboration, trust, and success.

In this interactive workshop, you will learn and practice 10 skills to improve spoken and written communication. Make changes that allow your audience to quickly and easily understand your website, emails, applications, presentations, job postings, and more. Learn actionable skills to make CU a more language inclusive place.

Learning Outcomes

• Organize and reduce writing by 20-50% without removing or “dumbing down” content.
• Build awareness around language exclusion and impacts of power and privilege.
• Improve the effectiveness of translations and decrease costs.
• Learn skills to communicate with beginning to advanced English learners.
• Use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make written communication more accessible.
• Improve engagement, trust, efficiency, inclusion, recruitment, and retention.

Who should attend

Anyone who communicates with people who prefer clear, brief communication. This training is beneficial to all communicators, and some of the content is essential for interacting with English learners.

*Please be prepared to leave your camera on and to do activities in small groups.