Making regulation engaging......can it be done?

I created training a few years ago for an audience that had to be able to read, understand, and apply regulations and legal decisions. It was a completely different field (advising international students on visas), but I think you could use a similar approach.

The big trick to content like that is figuring out the situations in which people need to make decisions related to the regulations. In isolation, the regulations themselves aren't that meaningful; it's when you're faced with a decision about how to apply it that it matters.

For that specific example, I had a character in a similar role to the learners and a second character who was his mentor. That main character worked through a series of short scenarios/case studies that required interpreting different parts of the regulations. The series of different problems was important, because no single story could show all of the different parts of the regulation we needed to train.

I wrote more about that approach (plus a few other examples) here: https://www.christytuckerlearning.com/scenarios-for-boring-training-topics/