Adapt the message to the recipient’s knowledge and experience |
Tips:
- Choose known words and facts (dates, events, people)
- Use known representations, images, symbols or codes that lead to the desired result
- Make clear analogies based on elements the recipient knows while avoiding
oversimplification
- Evoke acquired attitudes and values that lead to the desired behaviour
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Simplify the message by taking into account the recipient’s ability to understand |
Tips:
- Use known and concrete expressions and associations
- Present and explain abstractions, complex principles and unfamiliar information by way
of definitions, illustrations, examples
- Recognize new information and, if applicable, help the recipient to grasp that information
through visual interpretations (graphs, images, plans) and repetition
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Validate the message by guiding the recipient in the use of the information |
Tips:
- Facilitate problem resolution:
- set out issues
- outline the steps to be followed
- indicate desired result
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