Monday, April 22, 2013

Tips and Why Training Videos for New Employees is a Great Investment


Training new employees is important
but can also be time consuming. 

Training Videos for Team Members

Nothing can be more hectic than trying to train a new employee when things are busy. (This generally seems like the best time to hire a new employee.) You don’t want your new team member to be under-trained and confused or frustrated but you also need to get your other responsibilities done. For situations like this planning ahead can save you a lot of time and frustration when it comes to training new staff. With a little foresight you can create training videos on how to use different software that they might use, how to handle customers, where to go to update their benefits and things that you know will come up.

Don’t have time for creating training materials ahead of time? Not an issue, as you are training hook up a microphone and turn on a screen capturing device and make a video as you walk through. This gives your team member the ability to review this video if they have questions.


Some Tips for Training Videos for New Employees

Make sure your employees feel comfortable
in their new position.
  • Using the Bizideo Wizard you can make password protected pages and customize it with the videos and content that particular employee might need. This is a very inexpensive method and allows easy customization by non IT staff.
  • Don’t forget that mobile training is an option! Both the Bizideo Wizard and the Enterprise are cross compatible, allowing users to check up on questions on the go.
  • Save your video files so you can update it as you get feedback about things or as the protocol might change. (If the changes aren’t too drastic)
  • Using the Bizideo Enterprise Solution system we can help deliver training to larger populations of users using our subscription system. You can easily make sure that all your General Managers get access to one subscription while all your Cart Attendants have access to another.
  • The Enterprise also has ways to track user activity, and verify that they have completed viewing or downloading content. This solution can help train new employees BEFORE they show up to their first day of work or after hours as needed.
  • Don’t just leave your new team member abandoned in front of videos. Remember that you’ll want to create a working relationship that needs to be interactive, so check in ask if they have any other questions regarding the materials.
  • If you can dedicate time to making content beforehand it can be well worth it. On a quiet day you can spend a couple hours making materials that can make training multiple new employees a lot easier.


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