Training videos

All kinds of training types are very obviously suited to the medium of video. From language learning, to public speaker coaching, safety procedure demonstrations, new employee orientation, product assembly and beyond, video is of the most effective training tools available.

Visual instruction manuals are a particularly exciting idea to consider. Why waste time reading the badly-printed (and probably badly-translated) instruction manual for your new wardrobe, when you can see someone actually screwing the panels together, and showing you how much force to use?

And what if you keep giving the same induction speech to every new employee? Why not make a video of it, pop it onto your website and point new staff to it? It reduces your time committment to virtually zero, but maximises the impact of of your speech.

Pearldrop often makes training videos that are designed to played be on DVD. The great advantage of this is that we can make individual segments of the video available as chapters, so that the viewer can either watch the whole thing in one go, or can browse through the sections separately, and can easily go back and watch just a small portion without scanning back through hours of footage. It's a method ideally suited to 21st Century viewing habits.

With the arrival of high-quality mobile phones, suddenly a whole new field for training videos has opened up. Perhaps your company has a number of engineers who regularly make site visits. Why not load their phones up with videos of the complex jobs they have to carry out, showing them how to solve some of the problems they might encounter? They'll have a high-quality reference library in their pockets, and will be able to solve problems without going back to base. Saves time, saves energy, increases efficiency, makes the clients even happier!

Because many of the clients we work with to create training videos are big corporates, we can't actually actually show you any footage from them. What we can do is tell you some of their names, however. Two stand-out names over the last few months have been GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). (We love acronyms!).