The Business Bulletin
The impact of a pandemic to learning The arrival of COVID-19 on our shores has meant that many businesses and organisations were turned upside down. There was the first ‘lockdown’ when no one seemed to know what was happening and the understandable concerns about what was going to happen.
We also remember acts of selfishness
people offering to shop and collect
of many face-to-face interactions such
such as empty supermarket shelves
medication for their vulnerable
as meetings and training.
where people were ‘panic buying’
neighbours. It did seem that there
and you could not get some basic
was a greater community spirit
essentials like flour, eggs, pasta and
generating despite the worry.
even toilet rolls.
The Coronavirus crisis had
From our own experience this led to many clients cancelling training which was already planned and training proposals for new clients
led to many employers being
being put on hold indefinitely. We
overshadowed by the great acts
understandably concerned about the
strongly believed that whilst the
of kindness we also witnessed, like
welfare of their staff and the cessation
response to the pandemic did
However, this must not be
