4 tips for training your team remotely with video
for small-sized companies, adjusting to the new world of virtual work is essential. However, it's not with no challenges, rethinking the process of boarding and training employees.
What is the best way to welcome anyone to your company without walking the halls? Can you communicate a culture of trust and autonomy without actually doing trust falls? And how will they learn how to be great at their job without shadowing amazing employees?
This is how you can make use of video to tear down the barriers to remote training and help your company's communications stick to the ground and save time and energy.
1. Personalize it and remain honest
Can't meet in person? You're fine as the meeting is your own. You don't need to look through another school handbook or one-size-fits-all training manual. The public wants honest stories about modest beginnings as well as a plan for what you'll be building with them. To help new hires really get to know the culture of your company in person using video is key. (Not to mention it's far superior to hours of solo reading.)
But here's the catch: try not to write yourself out of script during the course of training. If you were training in person, you probably didn't script your own lines, so why should you do it now? Video is most effective when it feels real. Since it's real!
2. Step-by-step, explain it.
The main reason you should use videos for your training is because it can make your (and the things you already know!) scalable. Instead of repeating your message over and over for every member of the team, you can show or explain something only once. And once it's on video you can reuse it indefinitely.
3. Organize and systemize
In the end, you're trying to make sure that every member of your team is aware of what they should do and how to accomplish it, regardless of whether you're present to assist or not. It might sound odd however the aim is to ensure that you can be replaced in the best way possible: by sharing your knowledge.
But you can't just assume your team is reviewing every piece of content that hits their inbox. It's important to arrange and manage your training video content. What can you do to ensure that your content has been consumed and retained? If someone has to reference that process again how do they locate the information on demand?
4. Avoid getting caught up in production
Repeat after me: don't overthink your video. That's part of the beauty of it! Talk towards the camera in the same way as you would conversing with a person and tell them what they need to learn.