L&D & Training
Practical insights on learning and development, training videos, and instructional design. Learn how teams use Synthesia to create effective training content faster.
An L&D Strategy Isn’t Enough. You Need a Roadmap.
An L&D strategy defines what matters. A roadmap defines what happens next. Most teams have one. Few have both. Without a roadmap, strategy doesn’t translate into execution. This guide shows how to design an L&D strategy and turn it into a roadmap using a five-phase approach (assess, align, design, deploy, measure) that connects business priorities to measurable impact.
Your L&D Tech Stack Doesn’t Need More Tools
L&D often owns tools for content creation and delivery, while relying on other systems across the organization, like survey tools, intranets, and shared workspaces. Employees have always had different places they could go to learn. Now, AI has made it easier to access that learning in the flow of work. With this shift in mind, it’s worth revisiting your tech stack strategy so you can assess what adds value and what doesn’t.
Video-Based Training: How It Works and When to Use It
Video training helps people build knowledge and skills through explanation, demonstration, and guided review. In this guide, we look at how it works, when to use it, and what makes video-based training effective in practice.
16 Free Training Video Templates You Can Use Today
Explore 16 free training video templates for onboarding, compliance, cybersecurity, and more. Create clear, engaging corporate training videos in minutes.
Employee Onboarding Process at Scale: A 90-Day Operating Model
A scalable onboarding process needs more than a checklist. This guide gives you a 90-day onboarding operating model with clear ownership across HR, IT, and managers, plus stage checkpoints that keep every cohort consistent. You’ll also learn how to add a video-first delivery layer that reduces message drift across teams, regions, and time zones, with links to the detailed checklist and execution resources.
AI in Instructional Design: How IDs Are Using AI in 2026
AI is now embedded across many instructional design workflows. Most teams have figured out content production. The bigger opportunity is in evaluation, using the capacity AI creates to actually measure whether learning is changing behavior.
Facilitating Role Play at Work (With Scenarios + Debriefs)
Role play 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.
How to Measure Training ROI
Proving ROI is frustrating when every program is held to the same standard. This post helps you choose the right measurement approach, then create a clear summary leaders can review — what changed, what you spent, and what assumptions you used.
How to Speed Up L&D Content Production and Maintain Quality
AI can make drafts fast. Quality still takes intent. This guide shows how L&D teams speed up content production by using AI for first passes, then reinvesting time into better design, review, and scale.
How to Convert PowerPoint to eLearning in Minutes
Most PowerPoints weren’t built for learning. This guide shows how to fix slide overload, chunk content into scenes, and create eLearning people finish — then convert your PPT to video with Synthesia.
How to Make Software Training Videos (+ Video Templates)
Software training videos support how people actually use enterprise software at work. As systems multiply, teams need clear guidance for completing tasks, following shared processes, and adapting as tools change over time. This guide looks at how organizations use software training videos to support IT enablement and system adoption across onboarding, rollout, and ongoing use. It includes concrete examples and reusable templates designed to support consistency, clarity, and scale.
How Video Training Sustains Change at Scale
Most change initiatives fail because clarity and reinforcement fade once ownership becomes distributed. This post examines how video training sustains change at scale, maintaining leadership intent over time and helping organizations move from announcement to lasting adoption.
Subtitling vs. Dubbing: What Makes Video Training Stick
Subtitles and dubbing are often treated as localization choices. Learning science shows they are language-design decisions that shape attention, comprehension, and whether training translates into real performance. This article explains how to choose the right modality for enterprise learning videos—so translated training actually sticks across regions.
12 Best Corporate Training Video Examples (+Video Templates)
Explore 12 corporate training video examples and learn how to create scalable, interactive corporate training videos with Synthesia, from onboarding to compliance and skills training.
L&D Trends 2026: From AI Adoption to Skills Enablement
Explore the most important learning and development trends for 2026, with a focus on AI, skills enablement, and what L&D maturity now demands of organizations.
The Business Case for Learning and Development
Training and development helps when it makes people better at their jobs. Use this guide to improve readiness, support adoption, and build skills across teams and regions without adding more noise or busywork.
How to Make an Instructional Video With Screen Recording
Screen recordings are the fastest way to show how work gets done — but most tutorials don’t change behavior. This guide teaches an evidence-based workflow for designing instructional screen-recordings that drive correct performance at scale: write a single learner-focused objective, script short modular scenes, record with signalling and narration that supports on-screen visuals, then package clips for easy updates and localization.
How to Make Effective Safety Training Videos (+Templates)
Safety training videos help organizations deliver clear, consistent guidance across roles, sites, and languages. In this guide, you’ll learn how to choose the right video format, structure scenes for clarity and recall, and build training that stays accurate as procedures change. The article also covers how AI video supports multilingual delivery, easier updates, and scalable safety communication for enterprise teams.
20 (AI) Training Video Stats You Need to Know In 2024
In this report, discover the latest trends and insights into the use of video in training, challenges of video creation, and traditional vs AI video production.
How to Create Compliance Training Videos (+ Templates)
This guide explains how to create scalable compliance training videos that support learning in context. You’ll see how templates, realistic scenarios, and short videos help teams keep guidance clear, current, and practical.
How to Create a Training Program
Training programs often lose clarity as they scale across teams and regions, and struggle to stay relevant over time. A program that holds up starts with clear outcomes and a delivery model that fits real workflows. This post shows how to design that system and how AI can generate and adapt your training plan as your organization evolves.
The 17 Best Employee Training Software & Platforms (2026)
Discover the 17 best employee training software and platforms in 2026, featuring tools for content authoring, LMSs, microlearning, and more.
The 17 Best Learning and Development Tools (2026)
The best L&D tools for 2026, curated by our learning expert. Compare top LMSs, authoring platforms, video tools, analytics, and microlearning.
Best eLearning Content Development Companies + How to Choose
Not sure whether to outsource eLearning development or build in-house? Explore the key vendor categories, enterprise evaluation criteria, and modern in-house alternatives that help teams ship and update learning faster.
9 Creative Employee Development Ideas for a Diverse Workforce
Discover 9 innovative employee development ideas for a diverse workforce. Enhance skills, boost engagement, and stay ahead in the competitive job market.
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