A development trainer has taken her business online so she can keep working during the coronavirus outbreak.

Author and Lake District Radio presenter Beth Pipe said work for her "day job" delivering training and development courses to businesses and other organisations came to a "juddering halt" as travel and meetings were banned.

"That meant that I had little or no income for the foreseeable future," said Beth, from Grange.

"After the initial panic and dismay, I had to look at what I could do, rather than what I couldn’t, and putting my courses online in smaller chunks made sense.”

She has now launched OnLive Learning, which is aimed at both individuals and organisations looking to continue their training and development while people are working from home or self isolating.

“I’ve invested in the professional software, which means that I can make the sessions as interactive and practical as possible without having participants all in the same room,” said Beth.

“The sessions are just 30 minutes or an hour at most and I’m covering things like delegation and managing remote teams as well as one-to-one coaching and time management.

"Initially, I was running sessions at 9.30am but the feedback has shown that a lot of people would prefer to take part in something like this in the middle of their working day rather than the start so I’ve shifted more to noon UK time.

"That’s one big advantage of the online approach – I can adapt and develop things as I learn from my clients.

“Feedback on the first few courses has been really encouraging, I have a couple of my corporate clients interested in buying into the idea for their staff and I am hoping that word will spread to others in the weeks ahead."