Many businesses and organizations face challenges in building a productive and skilled workforce. The backgrounds and experiences of employees vary in culture, language, basic skills and training, technical knowledge and work habits. Building a corporate culture requires training and behavior change.
Videos are part of an effective training program to bring employees and staff consistent and available training. Over time, a library of training programs is a corporate resource with a variety of levels, languages and topics. These can be used by individuals as and when needed, or as part of workshop or seminar.
Objectives
To provide consistent and professional training to employees and staff on specific processes, procedures, techniques and methods
Examples
Training videos are useful for many purposes including:
- As part of staff orientation into the corporate culture
- To educate employees on health and hygiene
- To develop technical skills for specific processes
- To develop management skills such as conflict resolution
Challenges of Traditional Training
Many corporations and organizations offer on the job training to new employees or to upgrade employees.
- Trainers may be part of the company, or brought in specifically to offer a training to a group. This can be expensive and does not take care of employees that are hired in between these group sessions.
- Also when a person attends a training perhaps they are not able to absorb all the information or they may miss out on some important points. There is no way to recreate that experience to reinforce the training session.
- Some training programs are a series of sessions. If a person misses one session they have no way of catching up with the following materials.
- Some individuals may have low literacy skills and may not be able to take notes or follow printed instructions.
- The workforce may be from different cultural and language backgrounds and may not be able to understand the language of instruction. A video can be done in multiple languages using voice overs.
Benefits of Video Training
There are many benefits to video training. These include:
- The training is consistent and repeatable
- The individual can watch a training video as many times as is needed to learn the skill
- The videos can be done in multiple languages using voiceovers and translation
- The best trainers / master trainers are used to their full advantage
- Corporate executives and managers can deliver their message without having to appear at each training session
A variety of training methods can be used that may be difficult to do on a regular basis. For example a drama format for teaching cultural sensitivity, or conflict resolution; or showing real situations and processes that are difficult to show in an office or classroom situation; to show animations and illustrations of processes and technologies.
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