4 tips for training your team remotely using video
for small-sized companies, adjusting to the virtual world of work is crucial. It's not with no challenges, rethinking the process of boarding and training employees, too.
How do you welcome new employees by not walking through the company? Do you convey a sense of trust and autonomy while not actually making trust fall? And how will they learn how to be great at their job without shadowing great workers?
Learn how to use video to remove the barrier to remote education and let company comms stick the landing in a way that saves time and energy.
1. Personalize it and keep it candid
Can't meet in person? You're fine as long as you make it your own. Do not go through another school handbook or one-size-fits-all instruction manual. The public wants honest stories about humble beginnings and a vision for the future you'll create in the future. In order to help the new employees experience the company culture first hand, a video-first approach is essential. (Not to mention it's much more effective than hours of solo reading.)
However, here's the thing Try not to be too scripted during the course of training. If you were working in person, you likely wouldn't have scripted phrases, so why would you now? Video best works when it feels real. Since it's real!
2. Let it be explained step-by-step.
The main reason you should use videos for your training is because it makes you (and your knowledge!) scalable. Instead of having to repeat yourself over and over again to every team member they can simply present or show something once. Once it's recorded you can reuse it indefinitely.
3. Organise and organize
In the end, you're trying to make sure that every member of the team understands what they need to do and how to accomplish it, whether you're there to help or not. This may sound strange however the aim is to make yourself replaceable as efficiently as you can through sharing your expertise.
You can't simply assume your staff is reviewing each item that is thrown into their inbox. It's important to arrange and manage your training video content. How can you be sure the content was consumed and absorbed? And if someone needs to be able to refer back again then where do they go to find it quickly?
4. Avoid getting involved in the production process.
Repeat after me: don't overthink your video. It's the charm of video! Simply speak to the camera like you're speaking to someone, and tell them what you think they'll need to know.