The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Covid-19 popped up out of nowhere in January 2020 and we began following the news reports about this mysterious virus coming out of China.  We all remembered the SARS era and how Japan had sailed through that pretty well. We weren’t particularly worried and expected Japan would sail through this one too. However, around the middle of February our clients starting postponing scheduled in-house training.  This is when we realised Covid-19 was a serious issue.  We had public classes scheduled too and at our own volition, worrying about people’s safety, we decided to postpone them.  We also said to our team to work from home.  If they had to come to the office, they could do so, but try to come in late to avoid rush hour trains and go home early for the same reason.  On March 3rd we had a socially distanced, mask wearing Town Hall. This was the last mass gathering of the clan to date.  We were able to piggyback on our American colleagues ten years of experience delivering LIVE On Line training and we pivoted acro