Storyboards

Tips for Work at Home Parents Storyboard

Tools Used: Google Docs, Vyond

Development Time: 4 hours

Client: Growth Technologies

Learners/Audience: Parents who are normally high performers at Growth Technologies but are experiencing low productivity due to lack of time management skills and working from home for the first time.

Executive Summary: Growth Technologies is a fictional multinational company offering products, services, and solutions that include cloud-based products, networking, education, and other support services. According to a Flexjobs survey, www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/flexjobs-survey-flexibility-support-parents-pandemic/ families need flexibilty and support for working parents. While childcare services are offered to employees working on site, 22% of respondents stated they will have to request full-time work-from-home status. The goal of the company is to support work-from-home parents to increase productivity.

Challenges: Parents working from home have trouble managing their time. Parents found distractions and lack of a consistent work environment prohibited productivity.

Solutions: This eLearning course featuring Vyond animation presents ten tips addressing family interruptions, establishing a work environment, and limiting distractions from the community. This storyboard details a course that gives learners practice in creating a schedule and identifying ways to limit distractions to increase productivity. Vyond was chosen to capture the learner's attention with graphics and reflect the diversity of the company. Closed captioning is included for the hearing impaired, and a variety of activities are included to give learners different opportunities to interact with the material. Scene choices were changed after the creation of the storyboard to create additional scenes to better reflect the script. Design choices were changed to create uniformity throughout the course.

Results: Following the tips in the eLearning course can create better family-work balance and a happier, healthier work life. A happier employee is a more productive employee. A company survey reveals 78% of work-at-home-employees experience greater productivity after implementing the ten tips learned in the eLearning course.

The Haunted Werehouse Storyboard

Tools used: Google Docs, Envato Elements

Development Time: 3 hours

Client: The Werehouse--Transforming your Halloween

Learners/Audience: The Werehouse includes 50 people, but only 15% of them are return employees. That means there are 85% new hires each season. There is a mix of high school and college students and retirees, creating diverse learners to motivate.

Executive Summary: The Werehouse is a US based franchise focused on providing the best brick and mortar Halloween experience for customers. Customers can purchase costumes, accessories, and party decorations. A locally owned store in a suburb of Baltimore, MD is seeking help with customer service.

The Werehouse currently has a 3.5 rating on the most popular search engines. The average customer service is mainly because of poor customer service interactions. The goal of the company is to boost the store's online ranking through improved customer service.

Challenges: There is a $15,000 budget but no LMS. Even though The Werehouse doesn't want to invest in a SAAS since there will be no use for the system for several months of the year, the company wants to know who is completing the training and when the training is completed. The Werehouse is open to ideas, but Corporate must sign off on the project to ensure the training is completed. The Werehouse is open to ideas, but Corporate must sign off on the project to ensure the training is within the corporate branding guidelines and doesn't conflict with corporate messaging. Despite these challenges, the company wants to boost their online rating through improved customer service.

Solutions: A scenario-based elearning course published for a mobile device is easily accessible by employees, is cost effective and doesn't need the investment of a LMS. Scenario-based learning will increase the learner's engagement and allows employees to fail and learn. The scenarios will build employees' confidence in how to handle customers' requests, leading to more satisfied customers and higher profits. Instead of relying on a LMS, the course is uploaded to Google Cloud where employees can access the course using a URL. Once the learner successfully completes the course, the employee will complete an embedded Google Form serving as a certificate of completion. The employee will list their name and email address, and the information will be retained in Google Sheet. This is the storyboard for a shortened version of the course with attention to company branding guidelines.

Results: After implementation, employees will practice the necessary social skills to handle customers. Employees will improve both their skills and confidence. This improvement will boast customer satisfaction and an increase from a 3.5 rating on the most popular search engines to at least a 4.0 within six months.