Why Most Employee Onboarding Fails (And How To Fix It)

Most onboarding programmes don’t fail because employees aren’t capable.

They fail because new starters are expected to remember too much, too quickly.

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We’ve helped organisations including P&G and Unilever create onboarding, safety and internal communication videos used across multiple sites.

Every manufacturing business wants employees to become productive quickly.

Yet many onboarding programmes rely on materials that overwhelm new starters before they’ve even begun their role.

Video helps solve this by making information easier to understand, revisit and remember.

We’ve also seen how video allows businesses to deliver consistent onboarding regardless of shift patterns, locations or who’s delivering the training.

Onboarding often looks like this:

Actual Reality of Onboarding


New employees often:

Where onboarding breaks down

For many manufacturers:

Why this matters for manufacturing companies

Poor onboarding leads to:

Not a good start for a new employee.

Video allows employees to:

The result is predictable:

Practical ways manufacturers use onboarding videos

From examples we’ve seen:

Before creating any onboarding content

Start by answering three questions:

Simple Takeaway

Good onboarding isn’t about delivering more information.

It’s about helping people remember the information that matters.

Video makes onboarding more engaging, more consistent and easier to scale, giving every new employee the same high-quality experience from day one.

Manufacturing Onboarding Playbook

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Written by: Faye

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Video Creation Guidlines

The following list will vary based on each of your product/service types and distribution channels. This scope is defined during the initial free consultation.

Live Action

Production

  • Tone and style
  • Framing, composition, frame rate
  • Lighting style camera movement
  • Environment setup
  • Voiceover style
  • Post-production
  • Colour grading
  • Audio
  • Resolution
  • Titles and text
  • Editing style
  • Subtitle style
  • Music style
  • End frames/ call to actions

Animation

  • Storyboarding and narrative template
  • Colour palette line weighting and style consistency
  • Animation styles
  • Character and asset design
  • Typography library of animated assets
  • Transitions sound effects
  • Logo animation templates

Motion Graphic Template Assets

  • Titles and text
  • Text call outs
  • Transitions
  • Timers and graphs
  • Countdowns and progress bars
  • Dynamic backgrounds
  • Intro and outro’s video
  • Effects callouts and pointers
  • Social media content agenda’s / data visualisation
  • Event-specific MOGRTs

Drag and Drop Assets

  • Logo animation
  • Shape transitions
  • Social media overlays
  • Dynamic backgrounds
  • Motion icon loops
  • Colour grading LUT’s
  • Animated stickers