Employee Troubleshooting Guides
Create digital troubleshooting guides that break down complex procedures and turn them into simple, easy-to-follow instructions
You may not be able to simplify the complex — but you can clarify it. Troubleshooting guides allow you to create step-by-step guides that walk employees through solving complex problems and performing complicated tasks.
By creating troubleshooting guides, you can increase the confidence & independence of your employees and reduce the burnout of your most experienced people.
When you systematize your troubleshooting guides, you help all employees troubleshoot complex situations, even if they have less experience.
Create expert guides with questions
Provide step-by-step guidance
Analyze employee performance
Iterate and improve
Your smartest people often have to troubleshoot your stickiest problems. By creating troubleshooting guides, you can capture how your experts think through those complicated problems.
Instead of detailed explanations, guide employees by asking simple questions. As employees answer questions in the guides, they will be directed to the right solutions.
After your questions have narrowed down the problem, you can provide step-by-step guidance to walk your employees through the solution. By focusing on one step at a time, even complex procedures can be simplified.
You can even ask follow up questions in the article to further clarify the solution.
Use the built-in analytics to gain important insights that help you improve your guides.
Which guides are your employees using? Are they completing them?
Your employees can leave comments in the guides to help you improve the effectiveness of your troubleshooting guides.
As you get feedback from your employees, it is very simple to iterate over and improve your troubleshooting guides. Experiment with different questions or change the order you ask your questions.
Each time you save a new version your old versions are saved as well, making it easy to experiment with a new approach and revert back if you find that your old version was more effective.
When you give your employees "dummy proof" troubleshooting guides, everyone's productivity will increase.
Save time and clarify guides without having to copy and paste. Use integrated screen capture to easily add and update screenshots in your guides.
Replicate expert calls by inserting decision trees that guide your employees through complex troubleshooting situations.
Work quicker with fewer mistakes.
Interactive checklists let you easily add additional reference information so that your employees not only know what to do, they know how to do it.
Don't waste time rewriting information that is already in your knowledge base. Easily link to other articles.
You can even link to other articles as "pop-ups" so employees don’t lose their place.
They can access the SOPs through any modern web browser. Your SOPs can also be accessed via our ScreenSteps Browser Extension, presenting the SOPs right in the web applications your team is using.
You have a few integration options. The most common options are:
We also have a full API if you need more extensive integration options.
The ScreenSteps knowledge base your employees will use supports all modern web browsers.
For your users that need to access the Admin area to manage and create content, we recommend the following browsers:
The ScreenSteps Browser Extension is available for Google Chrome.
Not ready to talk to someone? No problem. Explore our pre-recorded demo videos to see the ScreenSteps knowledge base in action.
"We're reaping the benefits since day one. We've improved our training regiment almost ten-fold from what it was before (at least it feels like it!) I do not want to go back to what it was before we found ScreenSteps."
G2 Customer Review
"Our IT department is trying to promote the option of having 0 level of support so the end user can get help at 2 o’clock in the morning, and not have to go on campus to get help. ScreenSteps is helping us get there."
Arlen Wilcock | Faculty Technology Consultant | BYU-Idaho
"In our old system, not being able to find how-to guides was slowing down productivity. But with ScreenSteps, we've been able to bring everything into one place and make it easier for end users to find. We also use our quick-reference guides for training exercises."
Gretchen Fulmer | Instructional Designer | WA State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Qualify your team to handle even the toughest situations with expert content and call flows that drive the conversation. Give them access to all the right answers.
With "dummy proof" troubleshooting guides, you can train employees in less time and help them help your customers.