✏️ Back-to-school, but for your ops

Remember that first-day-of-school feeling?

Fresh notebooks, packed lunches, and a clean slate. Well, this week, we’re taking you back — back to the basics, that is. Consider this your chance to reset, drop the bad habits, and start fresh with a system your team can rely on.
👉 Homework’s easier when you’ve got the answers. Trainual just keeps them all in one place. 😉

GOOD MORNING CLASS

Sharpen your processes

As year-end creeps closer, September’s the perfect time to refresh your processes, check the seating chart, and get your team running faster than you after your first cup of coffee. ☕

Your Operations 101 toolkit includes:

• 📝 How to document a process template. Capture the 20% of tasks that fuel 80% of results — and turn them into training that saves your team time.
• 📖 How to transform your training content strategy guide. Learn how to present SOPs fun and engagingly (no more boring training)!
• 🎧 Putting the right people in the right seats podcast. Sometimes the smartest move is shuffling the seats you already have. One small shift can change the whole class vibe — and your team’s performance.

👉 Quick challenge: Pick one resource and picture how it could work inside your team. That’s how you go from scattered notes to a system people trust.

NEED A TUTOR?

"Trainual turned two weeks of onboarding into one day"

By age five, our brains are already 90% developed. That’s why one speech therapist made it her mission to give kids the literacy support they need as early as possible. What started in a garage has now grown into three clinics serving families across Alaska.

But with growth came a challenge: preparing every new clinician to meet kids’ complex learning needs without slowing down. The answer was structure: a system that keeps new staff aligned, efficient, and ready to help kids from day one.

Steal Ashly’s step-by-step plays for your team’s operations:

1. 📒 Turn policies into a system. Don’t let knowledge sit in a dusty doc — organize it in one place where your whole team can find it.
2. 📏 Make compliance less painful. Short, bite-sized lessons keep people engaged and actually finishing. (Yes, even the boring stuff.)
3. 📊 Use data to improve. Reporting shows you what’s working, what’s not, and where your team needs more support.
4. 🎯 Keep training relevant. Assign the right info to the right people so no one wastes time on noise.
5. 🎬 Mix it up. Text, video, and examples stick better than walls of text — and keep your team coming back.
6. 🔗 Answers on-demand. Give your team a single source of truth so they’re never stuck digging for what they need.

👉 See how Reading Write Alaska did it (and how you can, too).

POP QUIZ

Your team may not learn how you think they do

Think your team all learns the same way? Nope.

64% of people prefer more than one style. If your training sticks to one format, it’s about as exciting as your mom’s roast beef sandwich for the fourth time this week.... let’s just say nobody’s lining up for seconds.

With Trainual, you can build training that clicks for everyone:

• 📖 For readers: Step-by-step SOPs with headers, bullets, and flowcharts.
• 🎥 For watchers: Short videos or GIFs that show the process in action.
• 👐 For doers: Quizzes and instant feedback so they learn by doing.

👉 See how Trainual makes training click.

CLASSROOM GENIUS

An AI assistant that turns pop quiz workdays into open book wins? Yes, please.

Running training shouldn’t feel like extra homework. With Trainual, tracking team progress, finding answers, and sharing content is as easy as logging in. Here are three new ways it takes the busywork off your plate:

1. An AI assistant with fast, trusted answers.
Think of this as your built-in teammate that gives you instant clarity for company policies and processes to the people behind them. Basically, your approved way to cheat off the smart kid to get answers faster.

It’s always ready in the sidebar where you can keep the chat going, revisit past conversations, and reference full sources to help you keep moving without missing a beat. Let's take it for a test drive together! 👇

🤖 Get a demo of the new AI assistant

2. A Dashboard that tells you what’s working (and what to fix).
Get training insights right when you log in — what progress your team is making, how your systems are driving efficiency, and where to improve. Explore the new dashboard.

3. Flexible content creation for faster sharing.
Share any single piece of content — a doc, video, file, or flowchart — to get bite-sized training out fast. Perfect for quick updates, one-off how-tos, or reference materials your team needs now. Learn how to share standalone content.

FIELD DAY

School spirit, Trainual style

In August, we ran our own version of spirit week: Trainual Day. Teams dreamed up pretend companies (yes, even a sheep school 🐑) and built them inside Trainual — roles, processes, org charts, the works. It was part competition, part creativity sprint, complete with prizes.

The kicker? While building pretend companies, we were really training our own team to use Trainual better — and we built enough ops to run a company in under an hour.

The takeaway for you: Getting started with Trainual doesn’t take months. You can launch an ops system fast and start seeing ROI right away.

✨ Dean's list: Since you made it to the end (gold star for you ⭐), here’s your bonus assignment: Book your demo today and see how fast you can get your ops system running.