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Branching video for HR scenarios

Cinema8’s branching tools help HR teams create realistic scenario-based training where employees make decisions and see the outcomes instantly. You can map different responses to different paths, guide learners through corrective steps and tailor scenarios for managers or individual contributors. Each choice is recorded, helping HR teams identify strengths, skill gaps and behavioural patterns across the organisation.

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Cinema8’s video branching tools let HR teams create scenario-based training that mirrors real workplace situations. Each decision point routes employees to different outcomes, helping them explore the consequences of their choices in a controlled, repeatable format. Branching enables HR to build conflict-resolution paths, manager-specific coaching routes or wellbeing scenarios without producing separate videos. Every selection is recorded, giving teams clear insight into behavioural patterns and areas where further support or development may be needed.

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How to build branching HR scenarios with Cinema8

Use Cinema8’s branching editor to map workplace decisions and guide learners through realistic HR situations.

Step 1

Upload your HR scenario videos to Cinema8 individually, in bulk or via API, then open the branching editor to outline your decision paths.

Step 2

Add choices, questions or prompts that direct learners to the next outcome, corrective explanation or a manager-specific path.

Step 3

Publish your branching scenario to your LMS or internal platform using Cinema8’s secure sharing controls, and track each decision in the analytics dashboard.

Why use Cinema8’s branching tools for HR scenarios?

Cinema8 helps HR teams recreate real workplace situations in a controlled, repeatable format. Branching allows employees to make decisions, follow the consequences and practise handling scenarios such as feedback conversations, conflict resolution or wellbeing check-ins. Each choice is tracked, giving HR a clear view of behavioural patterns and areas that may need further development. This approach supports more consistent, skills-focused training across the organisation.

How Cinema8 supports HR scenario training through branching

Simulate realistic workplace decision-making paths

Deliver tailored scenarios for managers and employees

Track choices to identify behavioural patterns

Practise difficult conversations through decision-based paths

HR teams can build branching scenarios that help employees rehearse challenging conversations, such as giving feedback or addressing performance issues. Each decision guides learners to different outcomes, helping them understand the impact of tone, language and approach before applying these skills in real interactions.

Create conversation scenarios
Cinema8's video branching tools show an HR team's branching scenarios laid out in the platform to help employees with challenging conversations.
Support managers with role-specific coaching scenarios

Managers often need practical ways to build coaching and people-leadership skills. Cinema8 enables HR to create manager-only branches with situations such as supporting a struggling team member or handling a sensitive request, ensuring leaders practise the decisions they are most likely to face.

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Strengthen workplace behaviour training with consequence-based routes

HR teams can use Cinema8's branching editor to model situations involving compliance, conduct, communication, or teamwork. Each choice leads to a realistic consequence, helping employees learn how their decisions affect outcomes. This approach reinforces expected behaviours across the organisation without requiring separate videos for every scenario.

Design behaviour modules
An employee is in the process of compliance training. Graphics show that she has access to only one video and branching paths lead to two other videos that are not accessible until she finishes and action.
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During travel restrictions, Cinema8 proved valuable as a tool. Its platform offered straightforward yet complete tools, allowing us to give virtual demonstrations of our solutions in a secure and efficient way.

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Art Director, Marketing and E-Commerce / Leica Geosystems

Cinema8 software engaged and motivated students with 360-degree videos at the Tate Gallery, featuring past student projects. Staff support was responsive and helpful with training. A valuable tool for educational institutions.

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Unit Lead Lecturer LCCA / London College of Contemporary Arts

Cinema8 has been instrumental in compiling all of the videos for a research project on employment for the blind or visually impaired, by offering an easy-to-use web-based platform for building Interactive Videos.

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Communications Coordinator / Mississippi State University

Cinema8 was chosen for its ease of use and ability to create interactive videos through an intuitive interface. The team received great support and reasonable pricing. leading to a renewal of their partnership. Cinema8's support helped them meet project deadlines.

Michel Sohel

Media Consultant / Eastern Michigan University

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Branching video lets employees experience HR situations as a series of decisions rather than passive explanations. With Cinema8, each choice leads to a different outcome, mirroring real interactions such as feedback conversations, conflict management or sensitive workplace discussions. This helps HR teams teach behavioural skills in a controlled environment, guide learners through better responses and give managers opportunities to practise situations they may not be ready to handle in real life.
Cinema8 records every decision made within a branching scenario, allowing HR to track how employees approach common challenges. This includes which options they choose, how often they take corrective routes and whether they reach the recommended outcomes. These insights help identify coaching needs, reveal behavioural patterns and guide future training for individuals or teams without relying on role-play sessions.
Soft-skill topics like communication, conflict resolution and feedback delivery often vary depending on who teaches them. Branching allows HR to create a single, consistent scenario that demonstrates correct behaviours, language and escalation steps. Every employee experiences the same structured flow, ensuring training is aligned with organisational expectations. Cinema8’s branching editor makes it easy to update modules when policies or best practices evolve.
HR scenarios often require different expectations for employees and managers. With Cinema8, branching paths can split early in the video to offer manager-specific situations (such as coaching a team member) or employee-level scenarios (such as raising a concern). This enables HR teams to personalise development without creating separate videos for each audience, and all decisions remain traceable through Cinema8's video analytics for later review.
Branching works particularly well for situations that rely on judgement, tone or structured decision-making. Common examples include handling conflict between colleagues, responding to a performance issue, conducting a wellbeing check-in, managing a sensitive request or navigating an escalation process. These scenarios benefit from showing the consequences of each choice, helping employees understand what effective behaviour looks like before facing similar situations in real conversations.