3 Reasons Why Now is the Time to Start Training on the Work Floor

Help employees get started faster and stay longer through visual on-the-job training and support.

It’s never been more difficult to hire and retain employees. With all the challenges of COVID in combination with a massive labor shortage, finding and keeping your employees is a challenge.

‘The Great Attrition’ as analysts are calling it, has left organizations struggling to find sufficient qualified employees in the first place, and turnover is high. Many employees are leaving after just 6 to 24 months. In September 2021 alone, over 4 million employees quit their jobs.

In this environment, finding and keeping employees is critical to every company’s success. While there are many solutions out there, one of the best ways to help employees get started faster and stay longer is on-the-job training and support. Work floor training solutions ensure that your employees have the skills and support that they need to stay motivated and to succeed in their roles.

3 reasons why you should train employees on the work floor

1. Employees learn quicker

According to recent research, 65% of the population are visual learners. This means that people need to see it done to learn how to do it quickly and effectively.

Visually teaching employees on the work floor is faster than traditional text-based SOPs. Plus, visuals are clearer than text-based methods, leading to fewer errors.

2. Cut time on training and meetings

You don’t have time to constantly be training a new workforce. Especially if turnover is high, you need to train new employees automatically and easily without the hassle of a bunch of meetings.

Work floor training solutions like Proceed.app provide a just-in-time training solution that easily shares content in bite-sized visual formats.

3. Support employees for better retention

When employees receive continuous training and support, they are more capable of succeeding on the job and will have more motivation. Companies that use just-in-time, work floor training solutions see their employees have more confidence in the work that they are doing. You can create content tailored to different levels of employees so that they can learn and grow with the company.

Proceed.app: TikTok® for training on the work floor

If you haven’t heard of TikTok, just ask a teenager. It’s pretty much the most addictive video content app currently available. Users scroll through short bite-sized video clips from 15 seconds to three minutes each.

While work floor training videos are not nearly as addictive as dancing or baking tutorials, Proceed.app brings the best of TikTok to work floor training with bite-sized photo and video instructive content.

Proceed.app even allows for crowdsourced content, so that your entire team can make photos/videos. But, you still have approval control to maintain the quality of what is posted.

Visual-based work floor training solution

Don’t tell your employees what to do; show them. By teaching them visually in an app, employees can learn quickly and have long-term support. Plus, you can save time on needless meetings by automating content to a large group of employees.

Check out why manufacturing companies are using work floor training solutions like Proceed.app.