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This video is an excerpt from a live training session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video (“The Basics of Flexible Planning”) is available in the Career Success Library. The article below summarizes the video content. “ Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.” This is a quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower, our 34th president here in the United States.
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The work we produce hasn’t changed radically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet where and how we work has been transformed—and the results haven’t always been favorable to our mental health. A Gallup poll from fall 2021 revealed that nearly half of American full-time employees worked remotely either some of the time or entirely. Additionally, the majority of remote workers— 60%, in fact —reported feeling more productive than they thought they’d be.
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