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KISS Your Learners: Streamlining Writing for Effective Training Materials

  • 07/23/2025
  • 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
  • Webinar – find link in email confirmation
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Whether you're designing eLearning or a virtual instructor-led training program, clarity and conciseness are key to maximizing the impact of training. This month's Lunch and Learn: "KISS Your Learners: Streamlining Writing for Effective Training Materials" is designed for the content writers constantly honing their craft to create digital learning experiences that keep the learners engaged and interested.


About Our Presenters █  Capability Alignment █  Accessibility Statement

KISS

Training materials should be easy to read and understand. However, in an effort to explain, we can make concepts more complex, simply by over-elaborating. This session will apply practical strategies for reducing wordiness and simplifying training materials for improved learning transfer. This session is especially for online developers, where the learner must interact with material without an instructor’s aid.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the importance of readability in training materials
  • Learn and apply practical techniques for streamlining writing

Session Outline:

  • Readability, plus how to implement readability analysis using Microsoft Word
  • Streamlining Writing Strategies
  • Practice Following Each Strategy

Participants can gain more from the session if they bring an example of their own training materials, whether in progress or finished.

About our Presenter: 

Alise Isbell

Alise Isbell is an award-winning communication expert, experienced trainer, facilitator and instructional designer. She empowers clients to transform ideas into clear messages.

She holds a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Business Communication. She published articles on effective communication in Nationwide Business Journals while also winning several IABC Bronze, Silver, Best in Division and Best in Show Quill Awards in Writing and Marketing Communication Strategy.

Alise was the President of ATD Houston in 2009 and is a member of the International Association for Business Communicators and HR Houston, and Women’s Energy Network. She frequently speaks at these organizations.

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ATD Capability Model

Each ATD-OC Learning Event will be aligned to at least one Talent Development  Capability, as identified by ATD National.

This program aligns with:

Domain(s):

✅Developing Professional Capability
  • Instructional Design
    Instructional design is an essential element of an effective learning effort. The creation of learning experiences and materials is what results in the acquisition and application of knowledge and skills. Talent development professionals follow a system of assessing needs, designing a process, developing materials, and evaluating effectiveness. Instructional design requires the analysis and selection of the most appropriate strategies, methodologies, and technologies to maximize the learning experience and knowledge transfer.

To find out more about the ATD Capability Model for the Training and Development Profession, visit http://tdcapability.org.

Earn Professional Professional Development Points

This program is worth .5 Professional Development points.
Find out more about APTD/CPTD Certifications here.

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Accessibility

ATDOC events are accessible to all participants. If you have questions or require special accommodations or auxiliary aid related to a disability for you to participate in the event, please notify us at least three weeks in advance by message to ocoffice@atdoc.org, with subject line "ADA Accommodations," outlining your needs and request for accommodation.

We will make every effort to work with you to accommodate your need.

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PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO RELEASE

By registering for this event, I hereby give the Association for Talent Development, Orange County Chapter, its clients, agents, and assigns, full permission to use, publish and copyright photographic images, film images, video images, sound recordings, and any reproductions from these materials of me and/or my property or any part thereof, either in conjunction with or without using my name, and make changes or alterations therein and/or alterations thereto Worldwide in perpetuity. Some places these images and recordings may be used and posted include, but are not limited to, the Internet, emails, social media, etc.

If I do not provide permission, I understand I will not activate my web camera during the session.

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Accessibility

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We will make every effort to work with you to accommodate your need.


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