4 tips for training your team remotely via video
for small-sized companies, adjusting to the new world of virtual working is vital. However, it's not without its challenges: reimagining the process of boarding and training employees included.
How do you welcome someone to the company without walking the halls? Can you communicate a culture that is based on trust and independence without actually doing trust falls? What can employees learn the skills needed to perform great work without having to be shadowed by great employees?
Learn how to use video to remove the barriers to remote training and help your company's communications stick to the ground in a way that saves the time and energy.
1. Personalize it and keep it candid
Can't meet in person? It's fine, so long as you make it personal. You don't need to look through another school handbook or one-size-fits-all guide to training. People want candid stories of the humble beginnings of their careers and an idea for the future you'll create together. To help new hires really feel the company's culture by firsthand using video is key. (Not to mention, it's much more effective than long hours of reading alone.)
However, here's the thing Try not to write yourself out of script when you're doing it. If you were training in person, then you didn't script your own phrases, so why would be doing it now? Video best works when it is real. It's because it's real!
2. Step-by-step, explain it.
The most compelling reason to utilize videos for your training is because it makes you (and the things you already know!) scalable. Instead of having to repeat the same thing over and over to every team member that you need to present or show something once. Once it's recorded you can reuse it indefinitely.
3. Organize and systemize
Ultimately, you're trying to make sure everyone on the team understands what they need to do and how to do it, whether you're there to assist or not. It might sound odd however the aim is to be able to replace yourself in the best way possible through sharing your expertise.
You can't simply assume your team is reviewing every piece of content that hits their inbox. That's why it's so important to organize and systemize your video training content. How do you ensure the content was consumed and absorbed? In the event that someone wants to reference that process again then where do they go to find it quickly?
4. Don't get caught up in production
Repeat after me: don't overthink your video. This is the essence of video! Talk towards the camera in the same way as you would talking to a person, and then tell them what they should know.