I’ll be retiring in about 3 or so years. Scares the shit out of my co-workers. I’m going to start to try to make training videos. (this is IS stuff, that I wrote). I’ll make a library of it. That is my plan.
I want to do that. I suggested it. I care about these people and the systems I/we have created. And I care about the people that these systems that help thousands.
I’m not going to name names, but the video platform that we are moving to sucks for creating training videos.
I.
Want.
To.
Help.
I’ve been getting a bit of push back. It’s $150 a YEAR to use what works better. I responded that I will buy it, I don’t care. I do care about my co-workers though. They very much want to know what knowledge I have.
This is not in anyway a poor company, nor am I. They are trying to push something that will not work though. Not for creating training videos.
Perhaps I’m absolved, but I don’t want to leave co-workers with something they don’t understand.
They also don’t want to know what my consulting fees will be when I retire.
Is there some reason you cannot make the videos you want yourself and put them on the platform you want and then, when you retire (or near enough) point your company/co-workers to that resource?
We had a teacher do that when they left (not videos, but powerpoints). Maybe a third of the teachers left behind even looked at them. If you’re ok with that, go for it! On your terms!
No, you didn’t read it fully: former training technical writer. Writing materials for training purposes which often included putting it into training video software. Really.
They are now saying that they will probably keep one license of the one that works best. Stupid but its a start.
I foresee this as maybe a new trend in our company with different departments going this way. We do have an in house wiki, But it gets cluttered. And different people learn in different ways. If you can actually see a video recording of how to do something, I see that as a good route. Of course there are trainers, that would be better just writing it out and NOT make a video. So it works both ways.
That’s the way to do it. I’ve been a contractor for most of my career. That means that once I’ve left a gig, it’s up to the company to maintain the training material when a software update comes along. Usually, they bin it and start over because the software they use to build the training has also updated. But it is hard to make department managers see the light on being consistent with training materials. Good luck to you.