11 Examples of Successful Employee Training Videos

By Enrique Olives on

Compelling training videos help L&D and HR teams share knowledge across the organization and help employees build the skills necessary for your company to thrive.

In this guide, we’ll share the ingredients to a successful training video–and share 11 examples of employee training videos covering some of the most common training topics, all made with Vyond’s versatile all-in-one video creation platform. Specifically, we’ll cover:

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What is an employee training video?

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An employee training video is a visual instructional tool designed to educate employees on specific skills, procedures, or policies within a workplace. It often includes demonstrations, examples, and explanations to improve understanding and retention of the material.

Whatever their purpose or vibe, training videos come with a distinct advantage: high-quality engagement that translates to 95% retention (compared to only 10% retention for text-based learning). 

There are three primary reasons why an organization may want to make an employee training video, including:

  • Knowledge transfer: Video delivers essential information efficiently during the onboarding process and over the employee’s tenure with the organization. 
  • Skill development: Training videos help employees at all levels acquire new soft or hard skills or update existing ones.
  • Compliance and risk mitigation: Video helps organizations meet legal and regulatory requirements by delivering content on topics like workplace safety, anti-harassment, data protection, and other compliance issues.

Regardless of which of these purposes an employee training video may fulfill, there are infinite ways to make it come to life. Let’s look at some of the most common. 

What are some common types of employee training videos?

Employee training videos come in many forms, but these are some of the most popular:

  • Explainer videos help viewers learn a concept or an idea. 
  • Scenario-based training videos show examples of situations and how people should respond.
  • Tutorials/how-tos show learners processes step-by-step and may include screen recordings or mixed media. 
  • Presentation-style videos bring your slide deck out of the meeting and into the team brainstorming session. 
  • Interactive videos allow learners to make decisions, answer questions, and explore various paths within the video. This hands-on approach enhances the learning experience by making the content more personalized.
  • Microlearning videos break down complex topics into smaller, easier-to-digest nuggets of information. 
  • Talking head videos feature on-screen presenters–either subject matter experts themselves, or hosts relaying information the way a TV anchor does. 
  • Hybrid or mixed media training videos include multiple elements from the types listed above. For example, you might use screen capture, tutorials, and interactivity to keep viewers engaged with highly technical skills training. 

Whatever type of training video you choose, it’s essential to understand what makes these instructional tools effective.

Qualities of effective employee training videos

Here are the crucial elements that make training videos stand out and drive successful learning outcomes:

  • Goal-focused: What are your objectives, and how will you measure those results? Your video should be laser-focused on your primary aims.
  • Right length for the subject matter: The traditional wisdom is that users prefer videos of only a few minutes in length. However, Techsmith’s 2024 research shows that respondents cited 10- to 19-minute-long videos as their preferred duration. Bottom line: a video should be as long as it needs to be to get your message across clearly.
  • Engages employees: Effective videos make employees pay close attention and get emotionally invested in the material. Use specificity wherever possible and humor when appropriate — and don’t forget to make the content as relevant and personalized as you can. 
  • Clarifies complex ideas and concepts: Use simple language, appropriate use of text and images, and metaphors to help ideas stick.
  • Helps drive new behaviors or actions: These videos aren’t just about learning for learning’s sake. You want people to be better equipped to handle real work situations and make better decisions.
  • Supports your company’s growth and retention efforts: When people are well-trained, they become more skilled. This makes your company better, which in turn makes employees want to stick around longer. 

Most importantly, focus your video on a particular audience and the specific skill or process you want to teach.

11 examples of successful training videos for employees

Here are some examples of training videos in a range of styles and topics for inspiration. 

1. New hire orientation video example

Using videos to onboard your new hires boosts the chances that they’ll digest and retain critical information about your company culture, their new team, and their role. (Research shows that people are more likely to remember information that they receive in a video format than text alone — even after six weeks.)

Note how this video adds a human touch by incorporating characters representing members of the new hire’s team, along with their actual voices. 

2. Workplace safety training video example

Nearly three million people are injured on the job each year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Safety training videos can cut down on accidents by ensuring that workers understand the safest ways to use tools and equipment on the job. 

Note how this video both engages and educates by presenting a real scenario, blending photorealistic, whiteboard, and animated characters, and breaking down important steps in a clear, visual way. 

3. Department onboarding video example

Need new sales reps to get up to speed quickly? A series of short animated onboarding videos is a perfect fit. 

 
Of note in this video (which is one of a series): By using an animated narrator like this, you don’t have to worry about onboarding content become dated if sales leadership changes. It’s evergreen, with a fun human touch. 

4. Compliance training video example

As this video demonstrates, clever storytelling and humor can help make even the driest compliance topics seem compelling. It may seem counterintuitive to add lighter elements to content about serious topics. But it works. 

5. Cybersecurity training video example

This cybersecurity training video is a great example of how to use lively animations, voiceover narration, and music to engage learners.  

6. Sales training video example

In sales, the difference between a missed opportunity and a closed deal often comes down to a single phone call.

This sales training video sharpens the essential skills reps need to succeed over the phone — listening, asking the right questions, and enunciating, to name a few. Notice how the friendly vibe of this video fits the message, too. 

7. Technical training video example

Adding animated elements (arrows, motion lines) to a visual of a machine or system is a simple but powerful way to help learners understand how it works, as this video demonstrates. 

8. Soft skills training example

In a recent survey from Wiley, two-thirds of the employees surveyed said that the soft skills training they received had a positive effect on their job performance. This video, “Empathy in the workplace for remote teams,” uses animation and on-screen text to demonstrate how remote colleagues can work to understand and accommodate one another more effectively. 

9. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) training video example

This diversity training video expertly uses animated characters acting out very short scenarios to highlight examples of ageism–and show learners how to avoid falling prey to it. 

10. Product or service training video example

This engaging example takes a mixed media approach, combining live footage of a “talking head,” screen capture footage, animation and text to demonstrate two ways Vyond makes it easy to make training videos on any topic. 

11. Leadership training video example

This leadership training video equips remote managers with actionable tips to navigate these hurdles and build stronger, more cohesive teams, no matter where they’re located. The combination of minimal text and colorful visuals makes it easy for the viewer to follow along and retain the information. 

Build effective training videos for employees in minutes with Vyond

No matter what kind of employee training video you’re hoping to create, Vyond’s all-in-one AI video creation platform makes it easy. 

Create videos in a variety of styles, including animated, photorealistic, mixed media, and everything in between. Generate a video script and draft in less than a minute by entering a simple text prompt into Vyond Go. Or use our Text to Image AI tool and deep library of templates to make something quickly in Vyond Studio. 


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