Here's a little snippet that my class really picked up on yesterday. During the training course, we get people into groups and ask them to design a solution based upon some simple requirements. The deliverable is "one or more diagrams to describe your solution". Aside from answering a few questions about the business domain and the environment, that's pretty much all the guidance that groups get.
As you can probably imagine, the resulting diagrams are all very different. Some are very high-level, others very low-level. Some show static structure, others show runtime and behavioural views. Some show technology, others don't. Without a consistent approach, these differing diagrams make it hard for people to understand the solutions being presented to them. But furthermore, the differing diagrams make it really hard to compare solutions too.
As I've said before, I don't actually teach people to draw pictures. What I do instead is to teach people how to think about, and therefore describe, their software using a simple set of abstractions. This is my C4 model. With these abstractions in place, groups then redraw their diagrams. Despite the notations still differing between the groups, the solutions are much easier to understand. The solutions are much easier to compare too, because of the consistency in the way they are being described. A common set of abstractions is much more important than a common notation.