Request:

An increasing number of managers in our organization have international employees from our India or Mexico offices reporting to them. Training was requested to provide tools to help managers in the United States understand more effective ways to work with their international employees. 

Our in-country HR managers provide me with PowerPoints of information on general cultural topics in the workplace for me to edit into an interactive eLearning course. I wanted to preserve the content they wrote as much as possible to keep the training true to their voice.

Solution:

I used video with narration to replace text-heavy slides with numerous bullet points wherever feasible. I selected an Indian accent for the narration to help managers become more comfortable understanding someone speaking English with an Indian accent, a common frustration for managers new to working with international employees. 

Tools:

This project was designed in Articulate Storyline 360. Our HR managers for our international offices interviewed managers experienced with working with international employees for this training. To protect their privacy when creating this demo, I replaced the videos with animation designed using Plotagon. I used MURF AI voiceover studio to create the narration and videos were edited using Camtasia with clips from our StoryBlocks subscription.