The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

The exodus from the office started a year ago, when we decided the safest thing was for everyone to work from home.  We had moved to an office free seating arrangement a few years ago, so we all had mobile phones and laptops and in that sense, we were able to relocate at a moment’s notice.  Did we still expect to be working for home for the next two years?  No, but that is the reality.  Now that everyone has tasted the freedom of avoiding rush hour and the fact that technology allows work from anywhere, life will never go back to what it was.  The first thing we realised was that the systems set up for working in the office did not travel well.  Just to make it even more challenging we had hired four new key staff in January 2020.  The whole onboarding process had that raw edge to it.  I got very busy, very quickly, in a frantic treading water kind of way.   The training business has been classroom based, so boom! - suddenly no classroom.  Fortunately, eleven years ago in September 2010 Dale Carnegie in Ameri