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08/06/2020

The Value of Education in a Time of Crisis

Knowledge is power when fear runs rampant

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck and HR professionals saw their world crashing down all around them, Stephanie Noël got to work. The director of Queen’s IRC knew that the professionals her centre served were facing the biggest changes of their careers and the IRC needed to step up as a resource for them.

Rather than going back to the textbooks, the IRC drew on its deep bench of talented facilitators and instructors, launching a series of webinars designed to address the rapidly changing needs of HR professionals. They weren’t preaching from on high, though. Their webinars hinged on Q&As and participant questions submitted before the session. The IRC team looked for the key trends in what their participants were saying they faced, and sought to address them through the free, hour-long webinars.

“We launched our first in week five or six of the lockdown,” Noël said. “It was via zoom and we could see all the participants’ and speakers’ faces. When we saw them, it gave us all an emotional lift, because we’re already feeling so isolated.

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