Training During a Pandemic

When my New York City–based organization moved to remote work in March, most of our programming came to an abrupt halt. Training got deleted from calendars, the annual all-staff was cancelled, and conferences were rescheduled to 2021. I’m accustomed to offering in-person, interactive programs. Forcing employees to attend lengthy remote training seemed tone deaf, but cancelling everything indefinitely didn’t feel right either. Instead of forging ahead with our regularly scheduled programming, I reworked content and kept the following things in mind.