How to Create Interactive Training Videos that Will Resonate with Your Team

Businesses that utilize interactive training videos to teach their team how to accomplish day-to-day tasks are finding that their workers have more knowledge, understanding, and interest in what they’re learning than when other formats of training are provided. Learning how to create interactive training videos that will resonate with your team is a process that requires your own basic planning, understanding of interactive training videos, and an understanding of the video production process. 

The entire process from start to finish is one that is generally one that you’ll hire a full-service production company to assist with. Beverly Boy Productions specializes in interactive training video production and will help you learn how to create interactive training videos that will resonate with your team. To learn more about the process, give us a call. 

Planning Interactive Training Videos

The first step in learning how to create interactive training videos is to plan your learning goals and objectives as well as the interactive elements that you’ll incorporate into the video training. This process requires you to understand who your audience is, how they are most likely to learn, what training is most important, and how you will provide that training.

Planning your training also requires you to carefully consider:

• The learning goals and objectives.
• The individual tasks that you’ll train on to ensure your employees are gaining value.
• How you will break your training down so that each training video is powerful, effective, and focused.
• How your training is going to resonate with your team.
• What steps you will take to incorporate visuals, characters, or other elements that are going to grab the attention of your team.

This is also where you’re going to plan how many training videos you will produce, how long each video should be, and how much or how little content each video should cover. Generally, training videos are about 5-8 minutes in total length but they can be as short as 30-60 seconds. Microlearning, which takes place in short, engaging bursts, is powerfully effective and ideal when producing training video content.

Understanding Interactive Training Videos

The next important factor to consider and steps to follow are in regards to understanding interactive training videos. If you’re not familiar with interactive training videos, this is your time to study up on the various interactive elements or features that are involved and how they can benefit your training program.

The following interactive features can be incorporated into your team training to provide a valuable addition to any training video or series:

• Branching or path based learning scenarios in which your audience has the choice in how to proceed with the training video and can see the outcomes of their choices in real-time.
• Links that draw your audience to the next subject, page, or supporting content to reinforce the training that is being provided.
• 360° video views that create an immersive experience in which your team can look up, down, left and right within the video to see the environment in which the video is set.
• Interactive quizzes, polls, and other styles or features that allow your audience to test their learning and allows you to determine where your team stands in regards to knowledge transfer and knowledge retention.
• Hotspots which act similar to links providing various locations within the video that the user can click on to see additional information, open supporting links, or navigate to other topics relative to the training.

The ways that you intend to incorporate these different interactive training elements into your videos vary, but should be planned in advance of production to ensure all steps are taken to film the appropriate content, create the supporting content, and integrate the important interactive elements into the video. 

Understanding the Interactive Training Video Production Process

The final major step for you in learning how to create interactive training videos that are going to directly resonate with your team is to learn about interactive training video production and the process that you’ll go through with a professional film crew. At Beverly Boy Productions, and with other major film crews and interactive video production services, learning how to create interactive training videos will involve the following processes and procedures:

• Pre-production which includes the planning and organization of training content, modules, and tasks as well as learning goals and objectives. Pre-production also includes the script writing, storyboard creation, and essential planning of who will be involved in the production of the training videos.
• Production which includes the filming of your training video content. All shooting, including the primary content and any b-roll will take place during production. This is where it all comes together!
• Post-production editing which includes putting all of the training video content together, using various overlays and graphics to make it more fun to watch, adding interactive features and animations, and finalizing with narration and music to pull the entire video together. This is the phase the typically takes the longest, although pre-production planning can also take some time.

Want to learn more about how to create interactive training videos for your team? Give our team a call!