EDUCATION SPECIAL
CONTINUOUS EDUCATION NOT ONLY FOR OUR CLIENTS Member: Mondial Congress Author: Barbara Skrott
As professional congress organisers, we know the importance
edge was shared while the expertise stayed within the
of continuous education. We are after all busy all year with the
designated team. With the growing focus on the online world,
organisation of educational events for our clients. Due to the
we added a new opportunity for individual skill development
pandemic these events were shifted into the online world. We
via an online platform. Using an online platform we have
learned a lot and decided to test those lessons on ourselves.
developed a course offer rather personalised to our
Therefore, we used this approach, applied it to our own
employees’ needs that most importantly meets even
education and took the chance to put more emphasis on the
the busiest schedule.
skill development of our employees. Barbara Skrott is director of national projects and the person responsible for our internal training at Mondial Congress. We have asked her for a little insight into the topic. Hi Barbara, thank you for taking the time for our little chat today. Can you tell us something about how the current situation changed the way Mondial Congress goes about their continuous education? Due to the changes happening through the pandemic, we set a new focus on our own skill development. Formerly we used to mostly work with a system of teams, so-called task forces.
Can you tell us a little bit more about the
Those task forces are compiled of experts in certain fields and
online experience?
thus are knowledge hubs for different topics. Out of these
With the online platform and these online courses comes the
knowledge hubs we used to give workshops and technical
tremendous advantage that everyone gets to decide when to
training for the colleagues so that the most important knowl-
do the online course. It is a very flexible system. Each quar-
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