Learning and development (L&D) and training teams today are tasked with creating a wide variety of video content, including onboarding, compliance, safety, sales enablement, and more. These videos are essential for keeping companies, employees, and customers informed, engaged, aligned, and safe.
Traditionally, producing training videos has been time-consuming and resource-intensive. Teams have to coordinate scripts, presenters, filming, editing, and reviews, often requiring expensive equipment, studios, and weeks (or months) of effort for a single update. Making frequent changes or tailoring videos for different roles, regions, or languages only adds to the complexity and cost.
AI video platforms are transforming this process. By leveraging AI-powered tools, L&D teams can now create high-quality, personalized training videos faster, more affordably, and at scale without sacrificing quality or consistency. What once took weeks can now be done in days or even hours, enabling teams to keep training content relevant and impactful.
Below are five high-impact video formats your L&D or training team can produce with AI video technology, why they matter, example videos made with HeyGen, and how to build them effectively yourself.
1. Compliance training: Reduce risk with up-to-date messaging
Compliance training plays a critical role in protecting your company and employees by ensuring everyone understands relevant laws, regulations, internal policies, and trust & safety. It helps reduce risk, avoid costly violations, and foster a culture of accountability and ethical behavior.
HeyGen enables you to build a library of modular compliance training videos covering topics like workplace conduct, data privacy, anti-harassment, security protocols, and legal obligations. With AI avatars, you can deliver consistent, professional messaging on sensitive topics, and use screen-recorded tutorials voiced by AI narrators to walk employees through key policies or procedures. Updating content is effortless. Simply edit the text and regenerate the video, ensuring your materials always reflect the latest rules and guidelines.
2. Learning courses: Build scalable training programs
Modern learners expect education to be continuous, accessible, and tailored to their needs, whether it’s for product tutorials, certifications, industry education, or community engagement. Creating and maintaining comprehensive learning courses for different employees or external audiences can overwhelm resources, especially when content must be customized by role, region, or customer segment.
With HeyGen’s AI-powered scripting and video production tools, you can quickly develop full learning courses for internal training or external education programs. Start with clear learning objectives, use AI to draft lesson outlines and scripts, and transform them into polished, branded videos featuring consistent presenters and visuals. Easily tailor courses for employees, partners, or customers by department, role, or market without additional filming. Once created, embed the videos seamlessly into your LMS, intranet, or customer education portal to deliver impactful learning at scale.
3. Safety training: Ensure excellence and reduce incidents
For industries like manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, or energy, safety training isn’t just important—it’s mission-critical. Poor or outdated training can lead to workplace injuries, regulatory violations, increased liability, and costly operational downtime. Employees need clear, actionable guidance on topics like operating machinery safely, handling hazardous materials, using personal protective equipment (PPE), preventing slips and falls, or responding to fires and other emergencies.
With AI video, L&D teams can quickly produce engaging, scenario-based safety training that combines step-by-step visuals, narrated explanations, and realistic simulations. HeyGen allows you to create a library of clear, easy-to-follow safety procedures using AI avatars, motion graphics, and screen recordings. And when policies or regulations change, updates take minutes, not weeks, ensuring your workforce always has access to the most current guidance.
4. Corporate training: Accelerate ramp-up and align new hires
First impressions shape employee engagement. Effective corporate training reduces time-to-productivity and helps new hires feel confident, informed, and aligned with company culture and processes. Beyond just onboarding, employees need guidance on company policies, organizational structure, workplace conduct, HR systems, and even soft skills like communication and collaboration to succeed in their roles.
HeyGen allows you to create a library of modular corporate training videos, covering everything from company overviews and leadership introductions to org structure explainers and process walk-throughs. With AI avatars, you can introduce company leaders at scale or walk through HR platforms with screen-recorded tutorials voiced by synthetic narrators. Updates are easy and keep materials fresh and relevant without additional filming.
5. Sales enablement: Keep GTM teams sharp and aligned
Sales teams need to stay current on product updates, competitive positioning, messaging, and effective customer engagement techniques. They often rely on timely, clear training about new features, competitive battle cards, objection-handling strategies, and winning pitch approaches to succeed in fast-changing markets.
AI-generated video enables marketing and sales enablement teams to create scalable training resources like pitch practice sessions, product walkthroughs, and scenario-based role-plays. With HeyGen, you can use virtual presenters—including interactive avatars—to deliver scripted product updates, model customer conversations, or share top-performer tactics that others can emulate. Videos can be tailored by segment or geography, and updates can be produced in real-time to align with product release cycles.
Empowering your L&D team with AI
For L&D and training teams, the value of AI video lies in its ability to reduce costs, speed up content delivery, and ensure learning consistency across the organization. HeyGen helps transform your L&D team into an agile content engine that’s able to serve HR, operations, compliance, and sales with tailored, high-quality video that aligns with your goals.
Whether you're building out a global onboarding program or need to roll out new compliance training next week, AI video puts scalable learning well within reach.
Ready to get started? Download our practical guide for L&D professionals on how to create engaging, multilingual, and up-to-date training content quickly and cost-effectively with tools like HeyGen.
