Industrial Electrical Training Video Production Engages All Generations
Electrical training typically meant workers met in a classroom and slogged their way through a textbook or a printed manual of training materials that were all but engaging or interesting. However, worker training in the industrial electrical industry has certainly come a long way and is rapidly changing for the better. No more boring training, sleeping technicians or completely confused energy contractors! Today’s training in the industry features industrial electrical training video production that engages generations of all ages.
Not only do training videos provide deeper and more rapid understanding of the most complex issues associated with industrial electrical engineering, they’re also incredibly attractive to generations of all ages. This is especially true for Millennials which are next in line to take over careers throughout the industry which means it’s only fitting for one to consider industrial electrical training video production in order to appropriately meet the complex training needs of the next generation of engineers.
Video Training Ideal for Understanding Routine Procedures
Entering a new position with an electrical company can be especially challenging. There are practices and procedures for everything that an employee will do, but they won’t know that just by being hired. It takes training!
In order to understand the potentially hundreds of systems that are in place for the provision of routine procedures throughout a workday, training is essential. But when many of the valves, switches, and other utilities appear quite similar to one another, yet can have disastrous consequences should the wrong be flipped, switched, or otherwise chosen, is written training really ideal?
Absolutely NOT!
This type of complex, detailed training is best provided in visual form so that employees can see the demonstrated practice in action and learn the exact methods, procedures, and processes that together make up the day-to-day routines that are responsible for making the facility operate effectively. Employees don’t need a training manual or a textbook, they need a professionally produced industrial electrical training video series that addresses specific topics visually and with absolute detailed quality that cannot be overlooked.
Video Training is Consistent Across the Organization
Delivering a training experience that has the consistency required for a large scale industrial electrical organization can be particularly challenging. Industrial electrical organizations require a means of delivering complex, detailed training materials across the organization to groups both local and afar, without any loss of data or detail. Certainly a written training manual can achieve this, but training manuals take time to write, print, distribute and read with an emphasis on “read.”
19% of adults in the U.S. do not have basic reading skills. Many fall well below ‘average.’ So even with the distribution of training manuals, the likelihood of the entire manual being read by each employee is slim. Add to that the fact that most people forget upwards of 80% of what they read, and now even those who do read the manual only have 20% of the information! This means the training will be neither consistent nor convenient for your employees.
An industrial electrical training video series has the power to change all of that! Video is consistent. It’s credible. It’s convenient. Most important, video training is easy to distribute across the organization and ensures that every employee no matter where they are receives the same training with absolute consistency that no other training format can provide.
Additional Advantages of Video Training in the Industrial Electrical Industry
In addition to the above advantages, the use of an industrial electrical training video series has many other key advantages in the industry. Videos provide visual demonstration of processes and they can easily be watched by employees, even in the field. They also reduce overall training time because a 5 minute video delivers an approximate equivalent amount of information that can be delivered in a typical 1 hour training session or with several hours of reading a manual.
Video training is also ensuring that veteran employee knowledge can be captured for future generations to learn the processes and procedures that are essential to industrial electrical engineering organization operations. And since video is available across a wide range of devices including tablets, smartphones, and computers employees can easily engage from virtually anywhere at any time.
Finally, the use of video for training the youngest generation appears to be most likely to “click” with younger workers. As attention spans are now shorter than ever before, meeting worker needs in regards to both engagement and understanding is absolutely essential and video appears to be the best answer to those problems.
According to some in the industry, the use of an industrial electrical training video series has made it processes and procedures less overwhelming for new workers while providing maximum engagement for workers of all generations. That’s why Beverly Boy Productions is encouraging you to get started on the production of top quality training videos for your engineering team and electrical workers. To learn more or to get started with industrial electrical training video production for your crew, give us a call!