Every Commercial Building Needs Building Maintenance Training Videos

Many different tools exist when it comes to providing training and education to commercial building owners, but few if any resources on the list are comparable to building maintenance training videos. The use of training videos for commercial building maintenance is not only a growing trend, it’s really something that every commercial property owner should get their hands on. No other form of training is as powerful, interactive, engaging, and effective as training videos. 

With maintenance being a role that typically has a high turnover rate, commercial property owners need to have a system in place that helps them to know without a doubt that they have their training needs covered for each new maintenance professional that they hire. They certainly can’t be taking time out of their busy schedules to provide in-person training to new hires that are coming through a revolving door, nor can they worry about bringing on new maintenance employees without any training at all. 

Video paves the way for commercial property owners so that their maintenance training needs are fully covered. This is one of the many reasons why every commercial building really needs building maintenance training videos. Below are a few more reasons to consider building maintenance training videos.

Videos Save Resources Including Money & Time

The use of building maintenance training videos to teach commercial building owners and their maintenance crews how to keep up with everything from planned to unplanned or unexpected maintenance can be a time saving, money saving and resource saving decision. Property owners that choose to provide training via video are more likely to experience savings as follows:

• Reduced maintenance training costs despite high turnover of employees.
• Increased maintenance knowledge which improves overall management of maintenance to minimize unexpected costs.
• Improved procedures in strategic and operational business result in overall savings on maintenance costs.

Video training can save significantly across the board on a variety of maintenance related costs that come from incomplete or improperly managed maintenance of a commercial building.

Videos are Flexible & Easy to Access

If you’re hiring a maintenance crew that is going to work various hours to fulfil the 24-hour day, it’s going to be difficult to provide training. You can’t really bring a maintenance crew inside a unit after hours when there are tenants inside, nor can you easily provide training during the wee hours of the morning. Videos make it possible to provide this training anytime, anywhere. New hires can train remotely at their convenience. They can even train before they actually get started with their first real days “on the job.” 

The flexibility and ease of access with building maintenance training videos makes them a viable training option for a variety of different instances or situations. Maintenance crews like the flexibility that comes with video as they can watch and train even from their smartphones! By making training so easily accessible, you’re more likely to get your team involved.

Another major benefit to the flexibility and ease of access that comes with the use of training videos is the fact that if a maintenance worker needs to retrain or refresh his or her mind on how to handle a particular maintenance issue, they can easily just go back and re-watch the video as many times as they need until they feel like they fully understand the information that they need to know.

Videos Increase Engagement & Information Retention

With the typical in-person training, employees will forget the majority of what they learn over the next two months. This isn’t ideal, particularly in a maintenance situation where everything that they need to know is essential for the structure, cleanliness, and working order of an entire commercial building.

Fortunately, videos have been proven to increase engagement and improve overall information retention among those who watch them. This is especially true in the case where video training is provided in short micro videos that are 1-2 minutes long. By receiving bursts of training, that build upon each other to provide full training on a particularly complex topic or subject, employees are more likely to fully gasp the information that is being taught and they’re likely to recall the data longer term.

Videos naturally increase engagement too. People are just more likely to engage with a video than they will with a written manual. In fact, if you were to provide a training manual to 10 maintenance employees that you hire, you’d probably find that only 1 or 2 read it all the way through. And even so, they are not likely to recall much of it. The majority of the employees are not going to read the manual at all!

With video training, you know they’re going to watch and you can even track who watches the training, how much they watch and how they interact with quizzes, questions, or other interactive elements that are incorporated into the training to further hold employees accountable for their training efforts.

As you can see, every commercial building owner needs building maintenance training videos to teach or train their employees about proper maintenance around the building. For help producing building maintenance training videos, give Beverly Boy Productions a call!