Making employees job-ready and standardising training are perennial challenges of labour-intensive industries. We can help convert Standard Operating Procedures into audiovisual training modules so that the learning experience can be standardised and training can happen on the shop floor. Managers can play these videos to orient a small or large group of employees; demonstrate how tasks are done; make employees practice; provide feedback and handholding until new skills are developed.
SOP training and development challenges
SOP is a set of rules used for daily operations, which help ensure safety at work and prevent errors. Training employees about SOPs is important to help them know how to do their jobs correctly and safely. The challenge with SOP training and development is standardisation. Different trainers can conduct the SOP training program in a different manager. This lack of standardisation can result in monetary losses and serious accidents.
Removing technical and non-technical staff from their duties to educate them on SOPs means loss of production. Moreover, technical and non-technical staff learn better at their workplaces than in a classroom.
SOP employee training - The benefits of audiovisual (AV) SOP training
The following are the benefits of using audiovisual SOP training:
- The audiovisual takes care of how the instructions have to be shared with the participants. The SOP AVs takes care of the standardisation, no matter who is the trainer. There is no scope for any important point getting missed or given less emphasis.
- The video shares information in chronological order and in small chunks.
- The manager can show how the task is performed and handhold the staff to build their skills parallelly.
- If shop floor managers are the trainers, employees will take the training seriously.
- It is easy to build skills on the shop floor than in a classroom because it's the environment where the employees are expected to perform after the training. The shop floor is as close as it can get to reality.
- Training on the shop floor reduces learning time and cost because there is no need for travel, a classroom or any training aid other than a video player and display.
- It is easy to train a big group of people with the video modules.
- The staff can use the video clips to revisit the learning whenever they want.
SOP training and development challenges
SOP is a set of rules used for daily operations, which help ensure safety at work and prevent errors. Training employees about SOPs is important to help them know how to do their jobs correctly and safely. The challenge with SOP training and development is standardisation. Different trainers can conduct the SOP training program in a different manager. This lack of standardisation can result in monetary losses and serious accidents.
Removing technical and non-technical staff from their duties to educate them on SOPs means loss of production. Moreover, technical and non-technical staff learn better at their workplaces than in a classroom.
SOP employee training - The benefits of audiovisual (AV) SOP training
The following are the benefits of using audiovisual SOP training:
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- The audiovisual takes care of how the instructions have to be shared with the participants. The SOP AVs takes care of the standardisation, no matter who is the trainer. There is no scope for any important point getting missed or given less emphasis.
- The video shares information in chronological order and in small chunks.
- The manager can show how the task is performed and handhold the staff to build their skills parallelly.
- If shop floor managers are the trainers, employees will take the training seriously.
- It is easy to build skills on the shop floor than in a classroom because it's the environment where the employees are expected to perform after the training. The shop floor is as close as it can get to reality.
- Training on the shop floor reduces learning time and cost because there is no need for travel, a classroom or any training aid other than a video player and display.
- It is easy to train a big group of people with the video modules.
- The staff can use the video clips to revisit the learning whenever they want
