Give Old Videos New Life in a Video Training Library

Thinking of starting a video training library but don’t know where to start? Remember all the webinars your company set up over the years?  

You’ve likely had videos and PowerPoint presentations to all your employees explaining new policies or procedures. Those events you recorded because you could, then forgot about immediately after they were over. 

You May Already Possess Video Content to Use for Training 

That’s right! The company founders made that pretty video explaining how the company started, showing off the manufacturing area. Would be nice to get more use out of that.  

Maybe that video Accounting made showing the new way to submit expense forms wasn’t just a “fun” hour everyone had to spend before the company picnic. If you had a video training library, you could give these old videos new life. Like by providing onboarding for new employees who also need to learn.  

Does This Mean We Make New Employees Watch These Long, Old Videos? 

Not exactly. Bob from Accounting showed the expense form clearly in the recording, and he explained it very well. For an HOUR!  

A little Bob goes a long way, and every possible use case of the expense form was covered. No one wants to spend an hour watching this. Bob still gets interrupted by questions about the expense form all the time, the same questions again and again. 

However, the concepts of bite-sized learning and microlearning have shown that people retain learning more easily and permanently in smaller doses. Take another look at that old video. There’s likely a lot that isn’t relevant, then there are those segments that perfectly explain what is needed.  

Benefits of Repurposing Your Existing Videos 

1. Saving money, obviously. You don’t need to spend thousands on a cinematic masterpiece with high production values.  

2. Less time spent not starting from scratch. You already explained the new expense form process. Just break it into ten short videos that cover key points. 

3. Make onboarding easier. Your new policy review for the whole staff becomes part of overall policy training for your new hire.  

4. Video-based learning is effective. We have some compelling research that reviews exactly why and how video learning works. 

5. Increase learner retention. Some employees may have missed the original webinar. Maybe the company opened a new location. You intended to reuse these videos at full length. But now you can let your team learn where and when they want in manageable chunks. Training shouldn’t be difficult or boring – it should be effective. Which brings us to… 

6. Reduce disruption of your team. A great video course with a quiz that highlights the most important points also increases retention. This reduces the repetitive questions and lets your team focus on their primary responsibilities.  

7. Use those old videos to improve. While the content may be useful, your in-house experts can also learn what is most important. Keep recording your webinars, but now with an eye toward bite-sized learning that keeps your audience engaged. 

Why Not Turn the “Video Graveyard” into Your New Video Training Library Now? 

The first step is digging up those videos and seeing what you have. We have customers who had materials across platforms and needed to get a handle on them. See how TechBBQ has been able to centralize their information and has already started to reap the benefits. And because we like to help, here are several other ways you can re-use those old webinars.  

And Our Friend Bob the Accountant?

With better employee learning retention, Bob spends less time answering repetitive questions and has time to process your raise. The raise you got by saving the company so much in training expenses. And it all started with an expense form video and a Free 14-day Trial.