L&D & Training

The 5 Best AI Video Tools for Training & Onboarding in 2026

How to Create a Training Program That Sticks

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.

eLearning Video Production for Training Teams

eLearning videos go out of date the moment a product, policy, or process changes. This guide helps you decide whether to produce them in-house, outsource them, or do both, then walks through how to scope, produce, and maintain them, with a cost comparison to anticipate what each path takes.

How to Define Corporate Training Objectives (Before You Build Anything)

Training requests usually arrive as a solution: “we need training on X.” Corporate training objectives start with the problem behind the request. This guide walks through four questions to ask stakeholders and how to turn the answers into objectives.

5 Benefits of Employee Training and Development

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

5 Practices to Build a Learning Culture in the Workplace

Investing in L&D doesn't give you a learning culture. Here's what does, and why leaders, managers, and employees all have a part in it.

Training Video Script Templates + Examples

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.

How to Create Scenario-Based Training (With AI)

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.

Corporate Training Programs: What to Decide Before You Build or Buy

Not sure whether to build a corporate training program or buy one? This guide covers what to define first, including your audience and how many versions you need, and how to compare costs once you start talking to vendors.

Just-in-Time Training: What It Is and How to Make It Work

Skills fade when they go unused. Just-in-time training puts the right answer in front of employees when the task arrives. This guide covers how to choose a format and keep the content current.

How to Write an Onboarding Video Script (With AI)

Onboarding videos work best when they're built to last. This guide walks through a four-step method for writing onboarding video scripts, from choosing the right video type to drafting with AI, an LLM, or a template, so your scripts stay easy to update as your organization changes.

Learning in the Flow of Work: How to Design for Impact

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.

How to Create an Online Training Course

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.

Team Coaching: What It Is and How to Do It Well

Coaching usually focuses on one person in the room. This guide is about coaching the whole team instead, why it requires different skills than one-on-one coaching, and how to run a session that builds trust, surfaces disagreement, and creates real accountability.

How Much Does Employee Training Cost?

The industry benchmark for training spend is $874 per learner, or $846 per employee, depending on whose data you use. Neither benchmark tells you much until you calculate your own number, and this shows you how.

How to Evaluate a Training Program

A decision guide to evaluating training using the Kirkpatrick Model. Learn what each of the four levels measures, how much evaluation a given training actually needs, and where effectiveness and ROI fit in.

How to Measure Training ROI (Without Overthinking It)

Most training ROI advice assumes you have perfect data and unlimited time. This guide gives you two ways to get there: the Phillips ROI model for high-stakes programs, and a faster, "good enough" approach for everything else. Either way, you'll walk away with a number you can actually defend to leadership.

How to Build an L&D Budget That Scales

L&D is often treated as a cost center, evaluated on imperfect metrics like cost per learner or training hours. This guide walks through how to build a budget that holds up: partnering with Finance from the start, choosing a budgeting model that fits your organization, and proving ROI on the programs that matter most.

The 7 Coaching Leadership Skills Every Leader Needs

The skills that get someone promoted aren't the skills that make them a good coach. Here are the seven that leaders need to be effective coaches, and how to build them.

The 70-20-10 Learning Model, Explained (and Fact-Checked)

The 70-20-10 learning model has shaped how organizations approach leadership development for years. This post traces the ratio back to its origin, weighs it against the research, and shows what's genuinely worth keeping for building leadership capability.

Product Knowledge Training: How to Support Your Team Through Product Changes

Most product knowledge training is built once and never revisited, until it's noticeably out of date. This post walks through the decisions specific to training a product-knowledge program, from defining your audience to building a system that catches change before your team gets caught without an answer. It also covers how to measure training that changes as often as your product does.

10 Inspiring Onboarding Video Examples (+ How to Make Your Own with AI)

Most onboarding video lists show the same examples, without explaining how you can adapt them for your organization. This post includes ten real examples, organized by the job each one is meant to do: welcoming a new hire, introducing culture, building career development, training for a specific role, or covering compliance. Plus, how to build these with AI.

Customer Education Training: How to Build a Program That Scales

Most guides to customer education sell you a platform first and skip the real question, why you need to train your customers in the first place. This guide starts with diagnosing the actual business problem, walks through building and measuring a program that fits your scale, and shows how AI video makes it possible to keep content current as your product changes.

Coaching vs. Mentoring: The Difference (And How to Choose)

Most explanations draw the line between coaching and mentoring in the wrong place. Here's what actually separates them, how to choose the right solution, the mistakes that trip up teams at scale, and where AI genuinely helps scale them.

How to Turn Your L&D Strategy Into a Roadmap Leadership Understands

Writing an L&D strategy is the easy part. Turning it into a quarterly roadmap your team can execute is where most L&D functions stall. This guide walks through a 5-phase framework for translating strategy into action, with a maturity model to benchmark where your function sits today and KPIs at every stage to measure what's truly changing.

Strategies for Designing Blended Learning in the Workplace

Most workplace training already blends online and in-person elements, but rarely by design. Learn how to build a blended learning program around behavior change using the Behavior Modeling Training framework, plus the benefits, challenges, and examples that come with it.

The ADDIE Model, Explained

The ADDIE model has shaped how training gets built for fifty years. Used well, it's a loop you keep returning to as new information comes in, but most teams already concentrate more on some phases than others. AI adoption makes that imbalance sharper: teams are using it to analyze, design, and build training far more than to evaluate whether it worked.

How to Convert Training Materials to Video with AI

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.

Personalized Coaching at Scale: A Guide for L&D Teams

A guide for L&D teams on building personalized coaching programs that scale: training managers to coach well, giving employees ownership of their own development, and knowing where AI fits.

What Is SCORM? A Decision Guide for L&D Teams

SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is the most widely used standard for packaging and tracking eLearning content in LMS platforms. It allows courses built in one authoring tool to run across any SCORM-compliant LMS without custom integrations. There are two versions most teams choose between. SCORM 1.2 offers the broadest LMS compatibility. SCORM 2004 supports more advanced tracking and separate completion and success reporting.Newer standards like xAPI and cmi5 exist, but SCORM remains the default for most enterprise LMS workflows. This guide covers how SCORM works, how to choose a version, when alternatives make sense, and how to create a SCORM package.

10 Coaching Roleplay Scenarios (+ How to Facilitate Them)

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.

Corporate Training Video Examples (and What Makes Them Effective)

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.

How to Create Leadership Training Videos that Scale

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.

How to Speed Up eLearning Content Production (While Maintaining Quality)

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.

How to Create Safety Training Videos with AI

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.

How to Build Workplace Compliance Training Videos

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.