The Hilton Hotels Corporation is proving the iPod is more than just a portable music player by using it in a new training programme.
The company's Mobile Training scheme will see the group's 204 upmarket Homewood Suites hotels equipped with iPod videos.
Each iPod will be filled with short training videos about the chain's brand, providing the company's 5,000 staff with the chance to receive on-the-job coaching and guidance whenever they feel they need it.
Dawn Koenig, vice president of hotel performance services for Homewood Suites, predicted the flexible new training technique would prove popular with staff members.
"The Mobile Training video iPod programme contains a variety of two-minute modules highlighting specific brand skills that are both essential and valuable to our employees and their growth," added Ms Koenig.
Home Office officials announced in May that 20 senior civil servants had been equipped with iPods preloaded with short training videos about leadership, but insisted the media players were strictly for work use only.
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