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Your expertise solves problems and meets important needs when people understand it. Do your critical insights get lost in translation?
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Plain language & universal design
Courses in this group form the foundation of great technical and professional writing.
Learn how to lead busy users to the right action and convey complex information clearly for all audiences.
Learn to write in ways that make it easy for people to find, understand, and respond to the ideas and information you provide.
You’ll also learn simple, free methods for building accessibility into digital documents from the start.
Public Sector Writing Skills
Courses in this group equip you with essential writing skills and customer focus tools for every task in the workplace. Engage and inform customers, colleagues, and decision makers well. Learn how to lead busy users to the right action and convey complex information clearly.
Gain reliable skills for any writing task. Respond to requests for information well. Learn how to respond to write in ways that reduce or resolve conflict and confusion. Capture subject-matter expert knowledge and convey it plainly, briefly, and accurately.
Technical Writing & Editing
Courses in this group equip you to convey complex information clearly, in language non-experts understand and experts appreciate.
If you work with policy, regulations, law, technical, medical, or science topics, this is for you.
You’ll learn how to engage busy decision-makers. Discover a framework for data stories that others find useful and meaningful. Connect key points to supporting details in ways that people find hard to miss.
You’ll gain skills to write and edit like a professional in relevant, real contexts for the public sector.
dialogue, influence, & accountability
Courses in this group come from the Crucial Conversations® framework. Backed by 30 years of social science, these skills represent the standard in effective communication for high performance people and organizations.
These skills target the moments in life that have greatest potential to affect outcomes—moments of disagreement, risk, or change. You’ll learn nine powerful skills for working through disagreement to achieve better results and more accountability.
Take Crucial Learning® courses with Crucial Learning® certified instructors. Any public sector employee can join us at a great discount through the State of Washington Department of Enterprise Services.
You can expect the best.
“The best training I’ve received at ATG. Timely, relevant information that applies directly to my work. This answered so many of my questions. It was fun and kept us engaged. I recommend this course for all employees.” — Washington Office of the Attorney General, Paralegal
“Fantastic presenter; expert in her field. This was my first virtual course and it was far more engaging than I expected. Best training I’ve had in the last 5 years.” — Washington Department of Enterprise Services, Contracts and Procurement Specialist
“I come from 23 years of work as a nationwide 911 instructor, so I appreciate professionals who have the talent, skill, and expertise to deliver messaging and coursework in a thoughtful, engaging, powerful way—all of which you did today. One of the best facilitators I’ve ever had. I appreciate the work you do.”
— City of Seattle Public Affairs Officer