It is hard to deny that the presence of video can no longer be avoided no matter where in this world you decide to go. Whether you are involved in selling products and services directly to your clients or customers, or are more concerned with bringing your teammates up to speed, the age of multimedia has made it possible to cross physical borders and achieve the level of work that would have been impossible back in the days when typewriters were the latest technological wonder. However, it may seem like the uses for video conferences may be quite limited, but that is only true if you have a hard time thinking up new ways to stretch your dollar quite a bit. In this article, we will give you a few ideas that you can use so that you can put that unified communications platform of choice to good use.
1. Train Your New Recruits by Using Online Training Videos
You can either choose to train them by using prerecorded or pre-produced videos that will run them through the basics, or have them be trained live by another person over the internet. Often, the best solution would be to use both methods so that you can maximize every person’s time and energy. For instance, if you are the person in charge of training all of the new people in your team, you can start off the first session by having a live chat with the recruit so that they can get to know you on a more personal level. Then, you can send them a list of all of the pre-existing training videos that they will need to pore over in order to understand the company culture, internal rules, and other important information while you can spend your free time talking to another new recruit and onboarding them to the company. You may even find that you will have a chunk of free time where you will not need to personally welcome any new hire, and so you can spend that time working on your more important tasks instead. Plus, according to an infographic on Shift E-Learning, people who do online training are able to learn nearly five times more of the material without having to spend any extra time to do so.
2. Hold Your Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Meetings over the Internet
Do you have a really small office space and cannot afford to have multiple conference rooms built so that your various teams can hold their meetings without having to act as if they were in a relay race just so that they could make user of the venue? BlueJeans video communications solutions can easily solve that problem by making it possible for them to hold their group discussions over the internet instead. Plus, you will no longer need to have your employees try to squeeze themselves all into one tiny room just so that they can hold a meeting. In fact, they could talk to each other even if they were assigned to different countries.
3. Troubleshoot Any and All Problems You May Encounter Over Online Video
According to Information Week, information and communication technology downtime can cost North American countries an average of around $700 billion a year. Because you can share your screen in real-time with the person you are talking to, you will be able to recreate the problem that you have encountered. By being able to show exactly what you are seeing, the other person will instantly understand what the issue is, and will be able to quickly come up with a solution that is much quicker. Thus, you will no longer have to deal with the pain of having to describe an abstract icon meant to stand in for a program, nor will you have to struggle with memorizing or decoding any technical jargon just so that you can fix your computer and get back to work.
Though it may seem like it may be hard to think up new ways to take advantage of web conferencing, it is actually not that difficult to pick up this kind of technology and get very creative with it. All you have to do is to always keep an open mind, always research new ideas on the internet, brainstorm together with your employees, and experiment as regularly as you can without causing any unnecessary interruptions in the company’s daily operations. This way, you will be able to maximize the investment that you have made into your company’s equipment and software, ensuring that your internal processes will go by more smoothly, quickly, and result in higher quality output. Before you know it, your company will be receiving the profits that it so rightfully deserves, and it will be all thanks to being flexible and resourceful with the tools that you already have.
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