For the first two months after we locked down, my delivery of training programmes for the FT’s business education arm stopped. Companies cancelled their courses, along with the associated travel. Then, as people realised Covid-19 would drag on, the orders for online programmes trickled and then flooded in. I delivered several a week, sometimes two a day, to participants on every continent. Instead of flying to Peru or Bangladesh, I marshalled panels and took questions from our spare room.
实行封锁后的头两个月,我为英国《金融时报》商业教育频道讲授的培训课程停止了。企业取消了各自的培训,以及相关的差旅。后来,当人们意识到新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19,即2019冠状病毒病)会持续下去时,线上课程的订单先是零星增多,后来大批涌来。我每周为各大洲的听众上几节网课,有时一天两节。我没有飞往秘鲁或孟加拉国,而是在我们空闲的房间组织小组讨论和回答问题。