Dealing with Difficult People
Project Information:
Date: 2023
Client: Portfolio
Services: Design & Development
Tools Used:
Design: Chat GPT, Google Docs, Microsoft OneNote
Development: Vyond
About the Project:
Overview: This video was created to teach strategies for dealing with difficult people in the workplace. Viewers watch Sarah interact with her co-workers in challenging situations throughout her day, learning five strategies they can implement in their work lives.
Problem: With many corporate employees going back info the office, and out of the comfort of their home offices, the possibility of interacting with challenging co-workers increases. This can affect productivity, as well as happiness and well-being.
Solution: A short video that shares simple strategies that can be used with different types of people in different in situations around a typical office space.
Design: I utilized AI for idea generation. ChatGPT was used to generate ideas for common strategies in interacting with difficult coworkers. I used it as a beginning point for researching strategies to find the most commonly needed and the most effective.
I used Microsoft OneNote to organize my ideas and outline each strategy and the first draft of the script.
The script was written in Google Docs.
Takeaways: After sharing this video, I gained some great feedback about working with Vyond, tips for adjusting characters and speech, and scene transitions. I am really looking forward to working with this tool again.
Given the time and resources, I would like to redo this video with actual voices or with a better text-to-speech program. The ones in Vyond were adjustable, but not enough to make speech flow freely and at a moderate speed.
The video was about a minute or two longer than I wanted it to be. I think some of it had to with the speed of the voices, but some of it was the time necessary to share each problem then solution. If i were to recreate this, I may add a few more strategies, but break them down into shorter videos with only 2-3 scenarios in each, creating a small series of microlearnings.