How to Get the Most Out of Your Automotive Mechanic Training Videos
Training videos are increasingly becoming more popular in a variety of industries including the automotive mechanic industry as well as in areas where it’s generally important to learn things hands-on. If you’re the owner of a mechanic shop, you’re probably wondering how you can get the most out of your automotive mechanic training videos so that you can maximize ROI for the content you create.
To help your trainees maximize their engagement with a video while gaining the proper in-depth understanding of the training being provided, it’s important to think carefully about how others learn and what that means for the training they are engaging in. Follow along as we show you some ways that you can maximize your use of training video content throughout your automotive shop and get the most out of your automotive mechanic training videos.
Make Sure Video Training is Useful to the Audience
If you’re producing a training video that will be pitched to your target audience of automotive mechanics or prospective mechanics, you need to make sure that the content you produce is going to be useful to your target audience. Making sure that your audience immediately makes a connection with the content and that whatever you’re saying is going to be beneficial to them to hear.
Your audience should immediately see the benefit of the training video. The content should be interesting, eye-catching, and applicable to your audience. If you miss any of these important marks, you’re almost certainly going to have trouble getting your audience to stick around long enough to receive the training that is being provided by the video content. So, think about how you can grab their attention right away, prove the power of your training, and keep your audience engaged so that they gain maximum benefit from the content being addressed.
Make Learning Simple with Micro-Learning Initiatives
Another way that you can be sure that you’re going to get the most out of your automotive mechanic training videos is to make the process of learning each concept simple and easy to do. Micro-learning initiatives are the way to teach and train with video in 2022! Basically, this approach involves the use of short, easy to digest, bursts of training that is provided through video. Rarely are videos longer than 10 minutes. In fact, most training videos in virtually any industry are 5 minutes or less.
Using micro-learning, mechanics and prospective mechanics are able to approach each core concept of the training with distinct focus. Some concepts will require multiple micro-learning initiatives in order to help the mechanic achieve his learning goals.
Encourage Application After the Video
By providing automotive mechanic training videos that can be used to help your workers understand new concepts and important topics relative to their job, you’re helping them to wrap their mind around different concepts, but what about their hands? Auto maintenance and mechanics are such a hands-on process. Therefore, the best way to maximize beneficial outcome from your automotive mechanic training videos is to encourage application after the video.
This means, you’re going to have your employee watch the training video, learn the concept and then immediately apply the concept in a real-life scenario. By applying what is learned in the video, the mechanic in training is able to carefully work through different scenarios that they are learning and to better understand the concepts that were taught in the video.
While many training videos will have reinforcement in the form of a quiz or similar opportunity after the video which can work well in some cases, when it comes to hands-on training like this, the best way for you to maximize the learning outcomes of this type of video is to encourage the mechanic to dive right in. As the shop manager, your job is to provide training videos that coordinate with the day-to-day work requirements inside the shop so that after you offer training, you can provide a hands-on scenario to reinforce.
Keep it Relevant
The above mention of providing hands on training goes along with keeping it relevant. The more you can provide training that is relevant to what your mechanics are doing inside the shop on a given day, the better the training outcomes are going to be. If you’re finding that your team is getting hung up on concepts or scenarios that don’t apply, allow the autonomy to skip past certain topics in order to receive training on the concepts that are most applicable to their situation.
By keeping the training relevant, and providing the immediate hands-on reinforcement, you can expect that you’ll be getting the most out of your automotive mechanic training videos and any other training initiatives that you embark upon.
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