L&D & Training

Practical insights on learning and development, training videos, and instructional design. Learn how teams use Synthesia to create effective training content faster.

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Roleplay builds skill fastest when the practice feels real and the debrief is consistent. This guide gives L&D teams a facilitation approach, ready-to-run workplace scenarios, and debrief prompts that help managers practice feedback, accountability, and performance conversations, then retry with clearer standards.
Amy Vidor, July 22, 2026

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Most corporate training videos get watched once, if at all. Here's what separates the ones people actually use from the ones that get ignored, plus how to build your own with AI.
Amy Vidor, July 16, 2026

Leadership is a skill, not a job title. The fastest way to build it across a growing organization is training that's consistent, easy to access, and simple to update. This guide shows how to map leadership principles to capabilities, create training videos with AI, and get them in front of leaders when it matters, so behaviors change and messaging stays current.
Amy Vidor, July 14, 2026

Learn what makes a great employee onboarding video, see real examples, and find out how to build one with AI in minutes.
Amy Vidor, July 13, 2026

Producing eLearning content faster usually feels like a tradeoff against quality. It isn't, once production runs as a repeatable system. This is the workflow that moves from request to published asset quickly and keeps quality consistent as you scale.
Amy Vidor, July 10, 2026

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Safety training videos work best when they reflect your actual workplace, not a generic warehouse or office. This guide covers why engagement and site-specificity matter, common training topics by industry, and how to build a video series using AI, from defining a learning objective to getting SME approval to measuring whether it's actually changing behavior.
Amy Vidor, July 9, 2026

Skills are shifting faster than most organizations can respond to. This guide makes the case for why investing in employee training and development is one of the most important things a business can do right now, and breaks down the five outcomes worth focusing on: faster time to competency, better performance, higher engagement and retention, greater internal mobility, and more organizational agility.
Amy Vidor, July 8, 2026

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Most compliance training gets measured by completion rates. This guide covers how to design compliance training videos that employees actually learn from, including how to navigate regulatory requirements, define learning objectives, involve SMEs, and maintain your training library as regulations evolve.
Amy Vidor, July 7, 2026

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The best training video production company for your organization depends on your project, your team, and how the content will need to evolve. This guide profiles a range of vendors in 2026, from full-service learning agencies to creative production studios, and includes a framework for deciding which type of partner fits your training needs, and when building in-house or using AI video makes more sense.
Amy Vidor, July 1, 2026

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Most training struggles to hold attention or change behavior because it isn't designed for how people actually learn and work. This guide shows how to make training more engaging by focusing on three things: attention, thinking, and application. You'll learn how to design engaging training that works across formats and measure its impact.
Amy Vidor, July 1, 2026

Scenario-based learning closes the gap between knowing something and being able to do it under pressure. This guide covers how to design realistic scenarios with meaningful decision points, and how to build and distribute them as training videos, including how to use AI to make the process faster and more scalable.
Amy Vidor, June 29, 2026

Most training videos fail before they’re even made because they lack a clear audience and defined outcomes. This guide shows how to design training videos that improve performance. AI makes creation easy, so learning design is the real differentiator.
Amy Vidor, June 26, 2026

Video training helps people build knowledge and skills through explanation, demonstration, and guided review. In this guide, we look at how it works, when to use it, and what makes video-based training effective in practice.
Amy Vidor, June 25, 2026

A step-by-step guide to designing an onboarding program that scales, covering the four phases of onboarding, how to run a needs analysis, how to define shared ownership, and how to measure impact.
Amy Vidor, June 25, 2026

Proving ROI is frustrating when every program is held to the same standard. This post helps you choose the right measurement approach, then build a report leaders can actually review: what changed, what you spent, and what assumptions you used.
Amy Vidor, June 25, 2026

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Employee training videos are created and shared across organizations every day. Many are watched once, if at all, then forgotten. Only a small number shape how work actually gets done. The challenge is designing training people can apply in their daily work and return to as things change. This guide covers the training scenarios where video works best, with real examples and a step-by-step guide to creating them (with and without AI).
Amy Vidor, June 25, 2026

Most new hire training fails for the same reason: it relies on individuals, not systems. Managers repeat themselves, information is inconsistent, and new hires are left to figure out the gaps. This guide gives you a repeatable framework covering foundations, skill-building, and 30-60-90 planning so every new hire ramps faster, regardless of who's running the program.
Amy Vidor, June 25, 2026

The industry benchmark for training spend is $874 per learner. Most L&D leaders either use that number to justify their budget or ignore it entirely. Both are reasonable, because on its own it doesn't tell you much. What matters is how your costs break down by program and by audience. This post walks through how to calculate your own number and how to use it to make smarter decisions about where to spend and where to cut.
Amy Vidor, June 25, 2026

Learning in the flow of work delivers results when the design is intentional. That means starting with the behavior you're trying to change. The framework, the examples, and the measurement approach follow from there.
Amy Vidor, June 25, 2026

Most training courses are designed around content and not capability. This guide walks you through how to build online training courses that start with a performance outcome and end with measurable behavior change, from needs analysis and course structure to video production, review, and evaluation.
Amy Vidor, June 25, 2026

Not sure whether to outsource eLearning development or build in-house? This guide breaks down the main vendor categories, what each is best for in enterprise settings, and what to evaluate before you sign or start building.
Amy Vidor, June 25, 2026

Use this step-by-step guide to build your L&D budget: choose a funding model, define cost categories (including delivery ops), and measure ROI on the programs that matter most.
Amy Vidor, June 25, 2026

Not sure which training video template to use? This post organizes 9 free templates by use case (onboarding and orientation, compliance, role performance, and people development) so you can find the right starting point and get to publishing faster.
Amy Vidor, June 24, 2026

Video lectures require a different set of skills than live teaching. In a classroom, you can read the room, slow down when students look confused, and adjust in real time. In video, that feedback loop is gone. This guide walks you through how to make that transition, from defining your learning objective and segmenting your content, to choosing the right tools and presence format for your lecture.
Amy Vidor, June 24, 2026

Your content library is underutilized. This post shows you how to convert PDFs, PowerPoints, and Word docs into training videos using Synthesia's AI video generator, and what to check before you convert anything.
Amy Vidor, June 23, 2026

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Most cybersecurity training improves awareness but fails to change behavior. This guide covers how to identify the right topics, design scenario-based videos, and build a program that holds up under real-world conditions.
Amy Vidor, June 18, 2026

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Training videos fail when learners watch but don't act. This guide shows how to write a training video script around a measurable outcome, whether you're starting from scratch, using a template, or converting existing materials, plus simple ways to evaluate impact.
Amy Vidor, June 17, 2026

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Most training videos are easy to complete but hard to apply. Employees watch, click through, and move on without changing how they work. Interactive training videos take a different approach. Interactivity is the structure of the learning experience: what learners are asked to do. Engagement is the outcome: how deeply they think, process, and apply what they're learning. The most effective training videos combine both, using structured interactions to prompt real decisions and produce meaningful engagement.
Amy Vidor, June 16, 2026

Customer service training breaks at scale: updates are slow, guidance drifts across regions, and frontline agents don't get consistent practice. This guide shows how to build a video-based training program that you can manage sustainably with AI tools and effective learning design.
Amy Vidor, June 15, 2026

Onboarding videos work best when they're built to last. Here's how to write scripts that are easy to update, with a step-by-step method, free templates, and AI options for every type of onboarding video.
Amy Vidor, June 10, 2026

Writing a training video script doesn't have to start with a blank page. Use AI to generate a first draft, or start from a pre-structured template for use cases like onboarding, compliance, safety, and leadership training. Either way, you'll have something to work with in minutes.
Amy Vidor, June 9, 2026

Training programs often lose impact as they scale across teams and regions. A program that sticks starts with clear performance outcomes and a delivery model that fits real workflows. This post walks you through a five-phase system for designing training that drives behavior change. You'll also see how AI can help you develop and refine your plan as you go.
Amy Vidor, June 8, 2026

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Master eLearning video production. Includes types of videos, cost comparison of DIY vs agency vs AI, a step-by-step workflow, measurement strategies, and maintenance best practices.
Amy Vidor, June 6, 2026

Amy Vidor, June 1, 2026

A curated list of L&D conferences worth attending in 2026, organized by region, with dates and descriptions in each event's own words.
Amy Vidor, June 1, 2026

Most L&D teams are using AI to build training faster. Few are using it to make sure the training is working. It's time to change that. This guide covers how to apply AI across the full L&D workflow, reducing time spent on production and redirecting it toward reinforcement and the measurement that demonstrates real business impact.
Amy Vidor, June 1, 2026