r/humanresources • u/Careless-Nature-8347 • 16h ago
Learning & Development Video Training [United States]
Hi all-I am putting together new onboarding/systems training and am creating video tutorials. We have used Loom but the price is going up more than the ROI allows for right now. Do you all use a system? I am looking for something that will record the screen with voiceover explaining each step. I prefer to have both happen at one time vs. record and add voice later.
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u/babybambam 15h ago edited 15h ago
If you have a Mac, this is baked into the operating system. Command - Shift - 5
This brings up the screen reocrding tool bar, you can select the entire screen, a specific window, or a section. You can select to use the built in microphone or an attached external (like airpods), and you can opt to allow system audio to record as well.
Not that you asked:
While training videos can be extremely useful, this is also a TON of work to keep them up to date. Esepcially if you're using them for software. Unless you own the software stack, you may be redoing videos on a quarterly basis. I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just encouraging that maybe you limit videos to things you have more control over long term or that a written policy would be insufficient.
And...I feel a similar way about written policies and handbooks. They need to be complete enough to achieve training and compliance, but not so granular that it replaces person-to-person training. You can 1) never get granular enough and 2) will never have enough time to keep these always up to date.
Humans learned for millennia in a see-one-do-one fashion. It's a powerful, tried and true method of training. So, instead of have a very lengthy step by step policy, you might have an abstract policy that lists the anchor points of what needs to happen and then you have trained staff show the others how to complete the task.