Raise your hand if you’ve ever been bored to tears by a training session. Leadership training doesn't have to be dull. Instead, it can be a powerful tool for growth. In fact, the impact of leadership development within your organization can be exponential, and should be a priority when recruiting new leaders and growing those already leading your teams. But it can be hard to create leadership training that’s both informative and engaging.
Use these video examples for inspiration and learn how to use Loom’s screen recording software to create your own.
Essential types of leadership training videos
Videos are a powerful tool for your leadership training program—your employees will be more engaged and remember more of what they learn. Leadership training videos, which cover communication skills, emotional intelligence, strategy, and teamwork, will most likely fall into one of these four categories.
Leadership development videos: These focus on developing leadership skills, such as communication, decision-making, and problem-solving. Fostering these skills helps you retain talent, prepare for the future, and ultimately improve profitability.
Team-building videos: Foster teamwork, collaboration, and a positive culture with team-building videos. Use them to showcase team projects, celebrate milestones, or share personal hobbies like in this example from the Loom team.
Cultural competency videos: Help your team build a more inclusive workplace. These videos offer training on accessibility, ADA compliance, intercultural sensitivity, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), empowering your team to create a welcoming environment for all.
Customer service videos: Promote leadership skills in external interactions with customer service videos. They showcase communication, problem-solving, and empathy to equip leaders to navigate tricky customer scenarios, often via role plays demonstrating effective customer interactions. It could also involve one-on-one troubleshooting, like Sarah does with her team at Andela.
8 examples of leadership training videos
As you’ll see in these examples, leadership training videos can be bold, creative, and even fun. With Loom, you can create your own engaging training without specialized video training software.
Example 1: TED Talks
TED Talks have been at the forefront of leadership development for decades. Their powerful videos feature influential figures from different industries to inform and inspire. In this one, business leadership expert Simon Sinek draws on his experience to articulate leadership challenges and the number one quality all effective leaders have.
TED Talk videos can be lengthy, so use Loom to share their insights in a more digestible package while supplementing them with your own takeaways. Use Loom’s screen recorder to capture the most relevant section of your favorite TED Talk. Record yourself to comment on what you learned and how you’d like to implement those lessons with your team.
You can also stitch together a few segments of your own recordings, and drop in choice TED talk clips for an extra-inspiring montage. In your commentary, share why you chose those clips. Maybe they follow a common theme or represent your own guiding leadership principles. As you can see in this video, it’ll only take a few minutes to stitch clips together for your compilation.
Example 2: Company culture videos
Here’s a first-rate example from Dropbox of a video that defines a company’s culture. The theme of the video is that Dropbox treats its employees like people, not puppets. Using literal puppets underscores that point—as well as employee comments about it being a “fun place to work” where they “don’t take themselves too seriously”—in a silly and unique way.
Loom is the perfect tool for capturing and sharing authentic moments that foster a strong company culture. With just a few clicks, you can record yourself, your screen, or both, and instantly share the video with your team. You can let a coworker know you’re thinking about them in about as much time as walking down the hall to say it in person.
Improving connectivity can help remote teams build rapport and tear down silos. Postclick used Loom to build a powerful unified culture, leading to increased productivity.
Example 3: Leadership coaching videos
Leadership coaching videos offer a powerful tool for personal and professional development.A leadership coach provides guidance, and a good coach asks questions to help employees develop their own insights. In this example, the coach uses open-ended questions to guide the leader-in-training to create her own plan rather than laying one out for her.
Record virtual coaching sessions with Loom’s screen recorder so your leaders can refer back to them anytime they need a refresh. If you have team members in different time zones or can’t sync your schedules, use Loom to provide asynchronous training with personalized feedback.
Enhance the impact of your feedback by recording your video with Loom’s webcam recorder. Seeing your face makes the evaluation feel human and captures empathy and nuance in your delivery. Choose camera-only recording in the setup menu for a selfie-style video. Or, record yourself and your screen if you want to share supporting documents while giving feedback, like in this example from the Loom team.
Example 4: Microlearning videos
According to research from Deloitte, the average employee only has 4.8 minutes a day free for learning. Microlearning supports learning within these limitations by delivering concentrated doses of information. In this animated microlearning video, the leadership development consultants at Zenger Folkman focus on explaining one leadership skill.
Loom’s straightforward recording and editing software makes it simple to produce short, informative videos. If you have a paid plan, the waveform editor lets you trim your videos to the ideal length, ensuring that you deliver only the most relevant information to your learners. Split, trim, and stitch clips to tailor your content to fit specific learning objectives and keep your audience engaged.
The Loom AI add-on speeds editing further by automatically removing silences and filler words. No need to worry about silences and “ums” dragging out the length of your video.
Example 5: Virtual team-building activities
Team building is crucial for remote teams, providing the same collaboration and communication benefits as it does for on-site team members. It also helps remote employees feel less isolated and better supported. Without specialized remote training software, though, it can be tough to develop engaging activities.This management training video walks you through a few simple games your team can play on your next video call.
While these activities would be feasible over Zoom, Loom is ideal for asynchronous team building. Encourage your team members to use Loom to record “about me” videos or to share personal announcements and congratulations, like in the video below. Loom’s Slack and Gmail integrations allow for seamless sharing.
Example 6: Leadership book summaries
You may own many leadership books that inspire you, but your team might not have time to read them. Instead, consider sharing a book summary video. Recap key points in the book or break down one big idea, as this example does.
If you can’t find a video summary of your favorite leadership book, create your own with Loom. Use the webcam recorder to show a video of yourself sharing your thoughts on the book’s main takeaways. Your team will feel more connected to your video and the ideas you’re presenting when they can see your face while you speak.
Example 7: Employee training videos
Employee training videos have been around for decades because they are an engaging way to share information—everything from onboarding to teaching fundamentals like product training or customer service. They visually demonstrate complex ideas and procedures, ensuring consistent team understanding.
Animated employee training videos, like this one from Vyond, can make dense or dry topics more appealing. Their colorful visuals support the narration and hold attention.
For new-hire training and onboarding videos, Loom is the way to go. You can make your new employee feel valued by creating and sharing a personalized onboarding video in minutes. When sending your onboarding email, use a Loom video in place of typical onboarding documents, like an orientation outline.
Record yourself and your screen as you walk the new hire through essential first-day information. The webcam recording helps the new hire by adding a face to a name, and they can rewatch the video anytime they need a refresh. This example from the Loom team uses the Loom mobile app to give a quick office tour.
Example 8: Pop culture inspiration
For leadership inspiration on an epic scale, look to movies and television. Audiences love wise mentors and eleventh-hour speeches, which provide endless material for aspiring leaders. Sports and war movies are often rich sources. Look to comedy for examples of what not to do—The Office alone is a gold mine. While a movie clip on its own wouldn’t be a leadership training session, it could be a powerful opener, setting the mood and connecting to your audience.
This clip from Moneyball is a great example. In it, a manager turns a moment of confrontation into one of motivation, which could segue into training on tricky conversations or encouraging leadership skills.
Use Loom to record yourself analyzing movie clips and sharing your insights, but stay within the guidelines of fair use for corporate videos to dodge copyright issues. Pause your recording if you need to collect your thoughts and add annotations or even draw on the screen to highlight key moments. If you’d rather avoid using movie clips, you can use Loom to record a PowerPoint presentation where you deliver takeaways while displaying impactful quotes.
Inspire new leaders with Loom
Leadership training videos are a powerful way to motivate your team and improve performance. They’ll help you increase employee engagement, reduce turnover, and drive business growth. There are many possibilities, so find the best fit for your leadership style and empower your team to reach their full potential.
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