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Instructional Story Design: Develop Stories That Train
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Instructional Story Design: Develop Stories That Train

by Rance Greene
April 2020
Beginner
280 pages
6h 45m
English
Association for Talent Development
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CHAPTER FIVE

Develop Relatable Characters

First Attempt

Dayna reads through the short paragraph she has typed and retyped a dozen times. She mumbles the words audibly: “This is a story about phishing and how to respond to an email containing attachments or links. An employee of our company received an email from a friend—or at least it appeared to be from a friend. In the email, the friend asked the employee to click on a link in the email that would take them to a webpage containing some great store coupons. The employee is about to click the link when the employee realized that the email might not be from a friend after all. It could be from a scammer. Our policy regarding protection of our company systems states, ‘Be aware that emails containing ...

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