Over the past 10 years, I’ve had the privilege of training several thousand tradespeople a year in the areas of communication, technical expansion and buying habits of consumers today. Then all of a sudden, pow! The global pandemic known as COVID-19 hit, and the brakes were applied across the board.
At this point in time, companies around the country have simply halted work and training completely. Sadly, many will never reopen. Others have taken the mandatory slowdowns that were and are in place and used this time to increase training through new virtual training systems, and are now recovering on a seemingly faster pace than others.