Make it a video instead: Ready to swap dusty PDFs for human-centric, personal videos? Let Loom help you elevate how your team shares and scales information.
HR teams put a lot of work into creating helpful, relevant onboarding and training docs. And when no one actually uses them, it can feel like a huge (and frustrating) waste of time.
Of course, static decks and endless meetings don’t serve their intended users either. How can HR teams reach people better? And how can employees access that vital information more easily? The answer begins where those outdated decks end.
Loom is changing the game of employee onboarding and development. Their video communication app lets users record and share videos quickly and easily. Let’s explore some of the ways Loom can show up and help out.
Onboarding new hires
Think back to your own onboarding experience. Did you pair up with a dedicated HR team member to learn the company’s values, culture, and work processes? If so, that person probably spent hours scheduling, creating materials, and running that call.
But as companies grow (a good thing), HR teams can’t sustain that kind of one-on-one onboarding. Loom found that over two-thirds of HR leaders claim the biggest challenge with onboarding is finding the time to dedicate effort to onboarding new hires.
Loom offers a solution. It allows teams to create videos that can be recorded once and shared over and over, helping HR teams and new hires use their time more efficiently. Onboarding content can include brief intro clips of team members, resource walk-throughs—anything to help them feel welcome and get acclimated.
That means when you do meet with new hires live, they have foundational context when they show up to that meeting. So your time spent together is less about walking through deck slides and more about actively engaging and asking questions.
Of course, processes and companies change over time. But that’s NBD since Loom will soon let you insert new clips anywhere in your videos. So you can update information, add new context, and fix outdated elements over time to keep the content relevant and useful as things shift.
Training new and existing employees
Training, delivered via async video, can be a huge help in getting multiple teams up to speed at once without coordinating multiple schedules across time zones. But it can sometimes feel like you need a cinematography degree to create training videos.
That’s where new Loom features really shine. You can now add backgrounds and overlays—like arrows, shapes, and text—to make content look professional and help viewers hone in on what matters most.
Editing is a breeze, too. With text-based editing, you can highlight and delete parts of your transcript and watch your video update in real time. No re-recording. Just fast, intuitive edits. There’s even a speech cleanup feature that helps eliminate filler words, awkward pauses, or repetitive phrasing.
These features don’t just improve the training experience for employees; they improve the creation process for the teams doing the training. No long meetings, no maze of links—just engaging, on-demand content that can be easily referenced over time.
Reducing meetings
Cutting down on meeting time is a prime way to get valuable time and energy back. By enabling employees to consume content async versus in back-to-back, live meetings, they will feel less drained and have more time to GSD.
But Loom doesn’t just help reduce meetings; it reduces the amount of info that gets lost once a meeting ends. Loom can instantly transform a video into documentation and knowledge, including turning a video meeting into a clear summary and action items.
By reducing meeting quantity, quality often goes up. Questions get better. Folks get up to speed faster. And the time spent in meetings is more productive.
For more details on how Loom can help you elevate how your team shares and scales information, check out their e-book, Information overload to intentional knowledge: How to build an engaged, productive organization.