Social distancing doesn’t have to mean less socializing. As we adjust to a different lifestyle due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we can explore new ways to stay connected to our personal and professional circles. Join the session to learn how you can maintain your connections and make every moment matter during these times.

Transcript

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Kristy Kotek: Hey. Hello. Good afternoon, everyone. How’s everyone doing today.

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Kristy Kotek: Welcome to our webinar on surviving social distancing with social connections. I am Christy kotok and I’m the Director of Alumni Relations at Roosevelt and although we cannot be joining on campus today for this event. I brought a little bit of the Roosevelt campus with me and my background.

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Kristy Kotek: I just want to take a moment to say that I hope that you and all of your loved ones are staying safe and healthy during these challenging times these times are certainly presenting some very big challenges, but I know that I found that with these challenges.

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Kristy Kotek: There are also some really big creative ideas to bring communities together that are emerging like this afternoon so

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Kristy Kotek: We are very excited for you to be here because you are a part of our Roosevelt community. So thank you again for joining us a few items. I just want to share before we get started.

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Kristy Kotek: One is that this webinar is being recorded, so we will be able to share those with those of us who were unable to attend at this time and that will also give you an opportunity to go back and visit the webinar if you’d like.

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Kristy Kotek: And next we also will be using our chat box during the webinar. Our presenter and moderator put

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Kristy Kotek: A tremendous amount of thought into this webinar and the topics are going to be discussed today. So they do want to make it very engaging and interacting so

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Kristy Kotek: Feel free to chat in your questions in the chat box during the webinar and we’ll get to them as quick as we possibly can.

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Kristy Kotek: We will also have a Q AMP. A at the end of the hour. So you can certainly feel free to answer any questions at that time.

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Kristy Kotek: So I would like to first introduce our moderator, who’s going to be presenting some of the polls that will be discussing throughout the hour.

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Kristy Kotek: And resting ham, who’s our chief of staff, the Chief Operating Officer at Roosevelt and she is also the former vice president of human resources at Robert Morris University.

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Kristy Kotek: And then our wonderful presenter Maybelline Krueger, who’s the chief operating who’s waving with that beautiful green background.

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Kristy Kotek: Chief Operating Officer Roosevelt University Schaumburg campus and the former president of Robert Morris University and

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Kristy Kotek: I also have to say these are these are two amazing leaders. I’m very thankful that you both are here with us today.

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Kristy Kotek: And they also recently shared with me that there are teachers at heart. And I know that you will certainly feel that over the next hour. So without further ado Maybelline. I’m going to turn it over to you.

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Mablene: Thank you. Christy and I hope everybody can hear me okay if you can’t just, you know, use that that chat function and let Christie and and know and they will certainly alert me in some way.

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Mablene: Can I just start by saying I miss you guys I miss you miss you miss you. It’s not quite the same doing virtual calls but boy, technology has come a long way, hasn’t it

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Mablene: And part of what we want to talk about today is maybe how we can think a little more proactive to believe about using technology to our advantage, particularly right now.

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Mablene: Let’s first take a moment and thank Christy, for that introduction. It’s been a pleasure working with Christy at at Roosevelt University who manages many of the alumni operations.

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Mablene: Components of Roosevelt university. So if we can raise our hands and clapped even though she can’t hear you. Because you’re all on mute. Right.

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Mablene: Thank you. And as you know, at the bottom. You can also share a reaction of clapping hands. Do you see that on the bottom and you’d assume it’s down there, too. And you can pack.

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Mablene: And. And thank you for joining us today as well. You receive this invitation for one of a few reasons really. The main reason is your friend at Roosevelt University.

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Mablene: We intended for this brief discussion to be something fun. We could do as an outreach to our alumni and we were very, very pleased to have so many alumni respond positively and almost as many faculty and

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Mablene: Staff and friends.

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Mablene: Who are not particularly alumni, remember that our alumni now are thousands and thousands of Roosevelt University alumni, which now include thousands of Robert Morris University Illinois alumni.

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Mablene: So we welcome you. Those of you who came over from Robert Morris might remember me, as the President or the provost, or if you’re old enough, a faculty member

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Mablene: And of course and wrestling ham, our former VP of HR was a long time faculty member at Robert Morris. Well, so welcome. And I wanted to do this.

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Mablene: To meet more and more of our alumni at Roosevelt University part of our goal for the future is to really become integrated with our community of bit more

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Mablene: And more than we’ve been able to in the past few years, particularly in the northwest suburbs.

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Mablene: If I might ask those of you on the call today if it is possible to turn on your video. Let’s do that so that we can see you and I promise. This is a no judgment zone. So you didn’t have a chance to comb your hair, no judgment.

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Mablene: I’m biting my tongue, because I see a few of us who I know pretty well. And you know, I want to say something that, you know, I’m going to try to hold it for right now.

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Mablene: As Christy mentioned, this will be recorded. Just because you’ll want to see my face at some point in the future. Right.

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Mablene: And this is intended to be interactive it. Well, it can’t be interactive from a an audio perspective, because I don’t know how to handle that many people talking at once, and then you know I lose control, which I don’t like very much.

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Mablene: But we will be using not only the chat function, but also several polls throughout the next half hour and and is in charge of running the polls and we’re very eager to hear some feedback from you.

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Mablene: So let’s get started. And I believe you have a couple of polls ready so we can find out a little bit more about those of you who chose to spend your lunch hour with us today.

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Ann Bresingham: We do. Let’s get started right away. So our first poll, just to get a sense of who’s joining us today. We’ve got a couple questions to get started.

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Ann Bresingham: If you’ll take a moment how many years has it been since you graduated from Roosevelt university or Robert Morris university for our new alumni to our Roosevelt alumni family. And if you’re not

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Ann Bresingham: an alum, but you’re a friend of the university. We have an option for you to select also. So if you want to go ahead and select give you a moment there to make your selection.

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Ann Bresingham: And then we’ll move on to the next question. How would you describe your level of employment, where you currently are.

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Ann Bresingham: Whether your entry level down to the C suite.

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Ann Bresingham: And then our third question.

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Ann Bresingham: If you manage other employees. How many do you manage

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Ann Bresingham: Finally, we’re curious what industry best describes the one that you work in

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Ann Bresingham: I’ve got a couple choices there for you. And if you work in other and we haven’t listed one for you.

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Ann Bresingham: If you want to utilize that chat box at the bottom and go ahead and put the industry that you work in. I’m going to go ahead and take some notes for us to indicate what industry, it is that you work in

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Ann Bresingham: wait just another moment here.

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Ann Bresingham: Looks like a few more people are adding in their choices.

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Ann Bresingham: Still have about 10 more people

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Ann Bresingham: To vote.

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Mablene: And and we should have mentioned, my apologies that that these polls are anonymous right so we don’t

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Mablene: Know, thank you. Yes, yes.

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Ann Bresingham: Yes.

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Mablene: We don’t know if you’re making up an answer.

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Mablene: Or whatever the case may be. The way that will use these. First of all, it’s kind of fun right as part of our

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Mablene: Webinar today, but also to help us know who would have the time and took the

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Mablene: time to spend with us today for future we’ll get some more information.

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Mablene: From you on that.

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Ann Bresingham: It also helps us

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Ann Bresingham: Moving forward, knowing how to focus in our conversation.

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Merle: Or everybody I leave here.

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Ann Bresingham: Oh hello, their boss.

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Mablene: Oh, now I’m nervous. I wasn’t

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Merle: Or hello

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Ann Bresingham: Hello.

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Mablene: Hello.

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Merle: Moreau, I can’t get you on the video. I’m sorry. I think I blocked by adblock so

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Merle: I’m retired. I was a public school teacher for many years.

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Ann Bresingham: Well. Oh, hi.

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Merle: Hi. I was a I’m Roosevelt graduate. I got my bachelor’s from Roosevelt.

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Mablene: Wonder one. We won’t ask the

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Mablene: Year Merle now.

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Merle: You don’t have to

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Merle: Yeah, but like many, like many or most of you, I am doing the social distancing

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Merle: Yeah, and like to find out how other people are coping, as well as you probably want to know how I managed with this as well.

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Mablene: Great, great. That’s what we’re here for.

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Mablene: And do you have the results of the poll that you can

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Merle: Share

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Ann Bresingham: I think we do. It’s

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Ann Bresingham: People are slowly trickling in a few more. Let’s go ahead and and this poll

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Ann Bresingham: And share the results that we’re looking at.

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Ann Bresingham: So interestingly, it looks like the majority of our people are considered friends of the university, which is wonderful to have joining us and then after that we have a great

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Ann Bresingham: A great spread of people don’t we

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Ann Bresingham: That are joining with us today with 12% zero to three years.

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Ann Bresingham: And then look at that 45% of our employees are mid level employees.

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Ann Bresingham: With the overwhelming group of them not managing any employees at all. Okay.

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Mablene: Good to know.

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Ann Bresingham: And then I’m not surprised the overwhelming majority are here involved in education.

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Ann Bresingham: Look at that. But look at that 9% in health care. So we so appreciate those of you on health care because obviously you’re on the front lines right now in some way, shape, or form.

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Mablene: Thank you. And we’ll have more polls coming up. So keep your keep your mouse handy. Let’s just review briefly a recap of of history of remote work in the United States.

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Mablene: Before the current health crisis. First of all, we know remote working is nothing new, necessarily, but before the current healthcare crisis about 4%

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Mablene: Of employees in the United States worked one or more days remotely on a consistent basis. Notice I’m not saying from home because your remote workplace may not be your home.

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Mablene: But if we know that it’s a growing trend, it’s grown 44% in the last five years 91% in the last 10 years

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Mablene: In 2015 3.9 million workers in the United States were working one or more days remotely on a consistent basis and before the last few months that number had grown to 4.7 million. But that’s still fewer than 4% of the 164.6 million workers in the United States.

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Mablene: Right now, some states say as many as 80% of their workforce is still considered essential. So even though this is a new thing for many of us, particularly every single day of the week. There are so many employees who are still of course traveling every day to their place of

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Mablene: Work in some states again as many as

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Mablene: 80% that surprised me when I saw that and we know that there are some differences.

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Mablene: Now, even those of us who work remotely. It hasn’t been quote force.

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Mablene: Until now, and I think you have another poll ready to go. We’d like to get some additional

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Mablene: Feedback from those of you who tuned in today.

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Ann Bresingham: We are really curious before the current health crisis. How many of you worked remotely at least one day a week on a regular basis.

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Ann Bresingham: All these are coming in fast and furious now.

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Mablene: People have a lot to say about this.

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Ann Bresingham: And I don’t think you’ll be surprised.

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Ann Bresingham: Again, all of these polls are anonymous

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Ann Bresingham: So we could end the polling right about now and

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Ann Bresingham: I think you can say the majority 82% but look at that 18% did work remotely.

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Mablene: Which is actually higher than the national average, as I just mentioned just a little less than 4% had been working remotely on a consistent basis one or more days a week.

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Mablene: So let’s talk a little bit more about the differences I these days. And I think the media has done a fine job of reminding us of these even those of us who work remotely. It wasn’t forced until now. So we may not have been quite ready and we’ll talk about that in a minute.

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Merle: We may have

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Mablene: Either supports or distractions at our remote place of work. Maybe a spouse, who’s also trying to work remotely or roommate or children.

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Mablene: I was talking with another member of our Roosevelt community, the other day. Okay, I’m going to be honest. She was

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Mablene: Helping me with the technology issue, and she was sharing with me that she and her brother and two parents are in the same

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Mablene: Household trying to work remotely. My question for her was is your internet provider keeping up you know that’s that’s a real issue.

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Mablene: So we have either support staff or distractions working remotely.

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Mablene: And even if you are not working remotely. If you’re considered one of those essential employees who does travel in every day.

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Mablene: You still may be working remotely from others. And I think this is something we need to think about as well. I was speaking with a gentleman, the other day, virtually, of course, who works on an assembly line at a local factory.

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Mablene: He typically works first shift. I think it’s something like six in the morning to two in the afternoon, his employer now has moved from to shift some employees to three.

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Mablene: So that they can physically spread the people apart a little bit more. So those are some some differences as well. I’m sure once we’re allowed to go to restaurants to eat again, there might likely be

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Mablene: You know numbers that they can’t can’t move ahead of in terms of seating so that we can sit farther apart.

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Mablene: And then there are many essential employees who their personal life dictates that even though they’re essential that cannot physically be around one another.

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Mablene: And of course, even when I go to the grocery store. We’re caution to maintain a particular social distance from one another.

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Mablene: Another example of a business, who’s had to change their working hours, I was speaking with someone I know quite well who who manages several banks.

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Mablene: Baking establishments and she was sharing with me that since they are physically closing some of their Teller lines because the employees are physically too close to one another.

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Mablene: They’re having to expand their drive through our because they can’t serve all their customers with the to drive through windows, they have at this particular location happens to be in central Illinois

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Mablene: So now what we have is not a remote way of working. It’s a remote way of life and it’s a big change for almost all of us and change happens. I’d like to see a show of hands, virtual hands. If you’re not on video. How many of you say, and you’re like, Okay.

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Mablene: I don’t believe any of you who are saying that because my personal belief is the only people who really like change are those who can control it.

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Mablene: So one of the things we want to do is figure out in this environment that we’re living in. How can we best control what can we control and how we can how can we leverage it and use it to our advantage.

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Mablene: If you study change you know that there are several steps to change.

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Mablene: We’re going to run through these very briefly. There’s something called the pre contemplation, which means you’re thinking about it, but you’re not ready to change.

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Mablene: Followed by you’re getting ready that contemplation stage preparation. I’m ready. And then action. And of course, there’s several steps after that.

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Mablene: But if we think about that for a minute pre contemplation contemplation preparation than action. We were all forced and I don’t mean we at Roosevelt, but we as a society.

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Mablene: We’re forced on a moment’s notice, almost to go from the zero step to the fourth step right away action.

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Mablene: And how we handle all that depends on who we are and we know there are processes within change. You have to get facts, you have to pay attention to people’s feelings.

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Mablene: It’s extremely important and might I say that we as a society seem to be dwelling on that, in my estimation. Maybe a little much.

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Mablene: You have to create a new self image, which is part of what we’re trying to do in virtual meetings like this right gives me a reason to get up and comb my hair and look good from the neck up anyway, or as good as good as I can.

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Mablene: And we have to notice how we’re affecting each other in this new environment.

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Mablene: So, and thank you have a poll that we’re asking some feedback on how our folks are feeling about this virtual environment right

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We do.

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Ann Bresingham: How are you feeling about remote work for yourself right now.

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Ann Bresingham: Do you think it’s working out great or are you struggling with this whole new reality.

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Ann Bresingham: And then I think you can move on to the next set of questions.

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Ann Bresingham: When I scroll down on the pole. I’m curious, and my scrolling past, am I moving too quickly for people. I’m not quite sure if I move down if that messes up everybody else’s pole. No. Okay. Thank you.

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Ann Bresingham: The second question. If you manage a team and I know the majority of you don’t. But if you do, how are you feeling about managing a team remotely right now because a few people do and

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Ann Bresingham: We’re curious to get a sense how that’s working out.

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Ann Bresingham: And then the last

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Ann Bresingham: Question. Oh, thank you, Dr. Ed, I see you’ve you’ve let me know that you can control the scroll also. Thank you. I appreciate that.

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Ann Bresingham: And if you manage employees. How do you think they’re doing right now.

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Ann Bresingham: Take just another moment for everyone to go ahead and add their thoughts in there.

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Ann Bresingham: Okay I think everyone has just about had a chance. Let’s take a look at these results.

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Ann Bresingham: So I think it looks pretty good. That for most people. It’s working out fine. But there are issues here and there, and with any technology. I think we all know there are going to be issues every now and then.

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Ann Bresingham: And then if you do happen to manage employees. How do you think they’re doing right now and it is good to see that no one shows. I don’t know and I don’t care.

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Ann Bresingham: I did had to throw that one in there.

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Ann Bresingham: I’m guessing we’re all doing the best we can, at this point, and I think that’s a fair a fair thing also to consider.

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Ann Bresingham: Because at this point in time we all are doing the best we can. No matter where we really are.

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Mablene: One of the things I find most interesting is the response to that first question, because remember, when we asked how many of you had been working remotely prior to this health care crisis, it was almost this exact percent

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Mablene: Now I don’t know if those are the same people who are saying it’s working great those who’ve been used to it for a little bit, but I think that’s very interesting.

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Mablene: So let’s so we know that feelings are important, we share our feelings, we’re hearing a lot about it on the news every single day.

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Mablene: But let’s try to flip this to how can we leverage it. There are some good things about social distancing also let’s talk about that for a little bit.

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Mablene: One statistic that’s out there is before this healthcare crisis for the folks who said they had been working remotely one or more days on a consistent basis in a remote way 80% of them said they experience less job stress 80% that’s pretty amazing.

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Mablene: And the majority of employers who had been allowing this said that it was good for business. I’m wondering if that has something to do with 80% of the employment feeling less stress, right.

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Mablene: But it’s good for business. So one of my hopes, and I’m sure you share this with me is once we move forward as a society that will be able to reflect on what can be best done remotely.

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Mablene: Certainly not everything that may, might there be some additional flexibility.

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Mablene: Things makes you think differently and I’ll be interesting to hear from you. Feel free to to feed this to us at any time. What are some good things that you have been able to leverage

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Mablene: During this time of social distancing will share some of that at the end of of this presentation today.

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Mablene: I’ll tell you, for me, I’m not commuting an hour each way an hour and a half each way. Is that a good thing. I never minded the community, but my sleep patterns think it’s a good thing. I’ll tell you that.

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Mablene: Between not spending money on gas a metric ticket a parking ticket and she decided what was she going to do with that savings and actually this employee donated it to our Student Assistance Fund that Roosevelt University.

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Mablene: Which helps current students in need. But think about that yourself. What is good about social distancing

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Mablene: Two children, their 20s who both live in New York who now are home with him. During this time, and he said he can’t remember when the last time was they had dinner together as a family of four on a consistent basis.

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Mablene: Feel free to let us know what you’re doing that or what you’re experiencing that is a good thing.

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Merle: Which was one way, man. It wasn’t me it wasn’t me. Oh, that’s not you rural. No, it’s not me. Okay, no.

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Ann Bresingham: It’s been nice to be here and prepare my daughter’s breakfast and lunch. That is wonderful. Actually, I love that. And we have had the chance to sit down and have family dinner, which is something. My family has really missed out

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Ann Bresingham: Let me see what else. Okay. One of my very good friends from the former Robert Morris, one of our new Roosevelt faculty members says he likes his house and his wife even better now.

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Mablene: You all are doing the hard work for me. I appreciate it. I would also say that if part of what you’re doing is enjoying it. That’s okay.

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Mablene: That’s okay. Enjoy this time because yes it to will end when a quickly move to how can we leverage this in an important way and I want to talk about three different avenues. One is social or personal one is worker professional and one is building new connections. Let’s talk about those.

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Mablene: For a minute here, social or personal, family, friends, another employee at Roosevelt was telling me that she gets up at 5am every day to exercise virtually within group of friends.

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Mablene: This employee also has a five year old. So I think that might be how she stays safe, but it’s she said she wouldn’t trade it for anything.

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Mablene: We mentioned face timing are doing virtual happy hours. I personally have a virtual happy hour every other Friday afternoon with my three sisters and you know what I’m seeing their them more in this virtual way than I have in years. We live in four different states.

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Mablene: Reconnect with an alumni group. And when I was thinking about just the other day. Think about who are the people on a daily or weekly basis you came across at your place of work that you’re not in touch with now.

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Mablene: I have found this week, in particular, people are very, very open to making a new connection. And that’s one of the reasons we wanted to do this virtual meeting today.

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Mablene: On supporting wellness during remote work and we have one that we’re ready to polish next week. Again, I use publishing lightly. The topic of that one is wait for it.

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Mablene: Be nice. We’ll come back to that in just a minute. But that’s our way of reaching out this week I’ve received several emails from people saying they look forward to it.

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Mablene: Quite frankly, they’re not all that good. I don’t think they would have said that a month ago, people are hungry for new connection.

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Mablene: Because it’s important. It’s important to see eye contact. It’s important to make that connection. Again, I think people are pretty judgment free in the way that we all look right now. I know I can’t wait to get my hair cut my nails done, but that’s personal issue.

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Mablene: So let’s move very quickly to an action plan.

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Mablene: Wait, I want to go backwards because and pressing ham, who’s helping us out today. My chief of staff is an expert at when I forgot to mention my apologies.

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Mablene: This through as many free webinars as you possibly can. There are all sorts of webinars out there right now, either provided by your work or by external free resources.

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Mablene: Sure they’re going to contact you in six months and want you to purchase a subscription or something. But you can say no. There’s so much out there right now that that you can learn from

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Mablene: So action plan. Well, why would you tune into Roosevelt university without expecting some homework. Right. So there are three pieces of homework for you. One is set a calendar and some goal.

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Mablene: Let’s say you typically had a 3pm meeting with your supervisor every Wednesday and maybe that hasn’t happened because we’ve all been moving through those first four stages of change, getting to the action plan, make sure it gets set up.

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Mablene: Ask that it continue if you have standing meetings with your peers, keep them going. People will appreciate it so set a calendar and goals is the first one, get back in touch. That’s the second with someone on a personal nature someone professionally someone socially.

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Mablene: How welcome, would you receive a message that says, how you doing, just want to stay in touch. Just this morning I received an email from

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Mablene: And her message was thanks for your tips for your Tuesday, which is what we call our articles, just want to know how you’re doing. Can’t wait to we can get together again I appreciated receiving that and I think she felt good ending it as well.

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Mablene: There are positive things that happen. And I think you have something you want to show us from a positive nature, don’t you.

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Mablene: I don’t know what happened to and I hope she heard the compliment I gave her. But anyway, we’ll come back to that.

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Ann Bresingham: Here it comes. Can you see it.

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Ann Bresingham: No, wait, wait for it, wait for it.

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Mablene: And and some other you see some folks that you might recognize on the right. There are student emergency fund and the fact that our university proudly donate or what we could to our healthcare providers, the one on the left.

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Mablene: Someone sent this to me. It’s a nurse that I know who I know quite well. He’s been a nurse for about 45 years, actually, which tells you, my age frame but anyway.

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Mablene: And I’m thinking, not only did it make her day and the day of all the health care providers who came out of that hospital, but I am sure this the kids and parents who created this, it made them feel good as well.

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Mablene: I just love that. I can’t wait to share more widely. So again, remember that we are all social creatures.

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Mablene: We’re all social creatures even, even if we don’t want to be. We really are. It’s very important does to maintain those social connections. So, and do you have anything else you can share from us from the chat.

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Mablene: Since we are social creatures.

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Mablene: Who can tell you like it is the person who can say Maybelline you’re in a crappy mood today. And then really look good on you. Get over yourself.

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Mablene: Right. You need someone like that, particularly in this environment, someone I was talking to you the other day called it a strange environment. I thought that was the best description I had heard yet. Strange is the right word.

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Mablene: And then find a person that you can be that kind of a buddy to everybody can’t do that. Right. But who can you help out with saying I’m here for you. Let’s talk about what’s troubling you. Because when we get on this zoom call with our employees. We need to be the best version of ourselves.

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Mablene: And it says one kind words can change someone’s entire day and I try to live by that. I think that’s true. And I know you’d agree with me, so do something nice for someone today. I think we often forget that were important to other people.

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Mablene: And, you know, a quarter I just came across that it says it so well. Remember, there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical and

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Mablene: So please take a look at what’s happening at your alma mater consistently, check out the newsroom for those articles I mentioned that, and I are writing

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Mablene: Locate us on LinkedIn. If we’re not already linked. I’m pretty new to that game. So trying to build my connection and and. What other examples do you have before we close down thing.

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Ann Bresingham: Another one of our participants said the person who makes the difference for her is her seven year old daughter. She is the buddy that tells her when her attitude needs an adjustment and kids are honest. Yeah. They sure are honest, I agree with you there.

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Ann Bresingham: Inside that article on connecting socially and doing a lot of different things. Like if you want some more tips on the virtual happy hours or how to do a bunch of different things. There’s some really great tips in that article there.

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Ann Bresingham: I don’t see anything else. Do you have any questions that you’d like to ask if you have any questions here. Any other suggestions or things that you want to share

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Mablene: And feedback is fine too, if we if we didn’t have a minute or time or perhaps it wasn’t the appropriate venue to answer your question will definitely look at those later and get back to you.

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Mablene: Make sure you’re here with with Christy and her team what future programming, you would like to have and Christy will turn it back over to you.

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Kristy Kotek: Oh, thank you so much Maybelline and thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It’s so amazing to see how many have joined us not only just within the Chicagoland area, but across the world that is very exciting. And I know just

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Kristy Kotek: That some of the tips that I’ve taken away. Here I have a whole notebook page fills with some great quotes and some tips and one thing I know that I need to practice.

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Kristy Kotek: But sometimes we’re moving on from one kind of critical topic to the Nexus business related. And I think there’s some room for me just to also ask how things are going and how many of us have

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Kristy Kotek: Children and are juggling that which is challenging and addition to to working. So we really appreciate it. All of it. And that’s just one takeaway from me and I hope all of you here this afternoon, have some takeaways as well.

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Kristy Kotek: This is our, our first virtual event. And it was very exciting and will continue to have more virtual events for our Roosevelt community for alumni and friends and

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Kristy Kotek: I saw one question pop in if there will be a charge for these events and we we do not anticipate having, having a charge for these. These are specifically for our community. And we have a couple upcoming webinars and thank you so much for sharing.

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Kristy Kotek: This Saturday. Actually, we have an alumna Julie Gentile, who will be sharing. She’s a yoga and wellness professional so she’ll be doing an at home yoga and self care session, we have almost 100

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Kristy Kotek: already registered for that event, which is really cool. And then on Friday, April 24 we have a session with faculty member john Felton

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Kristy Kotek: Who is going to be talking about telling a social justice stories, though, if you haven’t yet, you can certainly register and participate for those events.

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Kristy Kotek: And I also in the chat box. I’m going to share the link to our student emergency fund.

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Kristy Kotek: As Maybelline shared we have many students who are in need. At this time, and we’ve raised over 50,000 and if you’re interested I shared the link in the in the chat box.

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Kristy Kotek: So, um, thank you again Maybelline and and for joining us and for all of you for joining us this afternoon before we wrap up, I just want to ask if there are any last minute questions that either myself or Maybelline are and can answer for you.

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Mablene: And thank you to all of you for joining us and Kristi. Thanks for managing this for us couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you.

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Mablene: Have a great rest of your day everyone.

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Kristy Kotek: Thank you everyone.

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Ann Bresingham: Thank you.

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Merle: Thank you.

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Merle: Have a great afternoon.

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Merle: Bye bye. Thank you.