Speaker Profile
KARLA BRANDAU
Karla Brandau is a leading authority on time management and team productivity in the workplace. With over 25 years of teaching and coaching time management and over 15 years of specializing in Microsoft Outlook training, she specializes in combining the power of time management with the technology tool of Microsoft Outlook to help individuals “get it all done” in less time. She is the CEO of Workplace Power Institute (www.WorkplacePower.com) and has educated managers with her proven time management and Microsoft Outlook productivity systems in companies such as Motorola, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Panasonic, and BYD America. Karla’s time management with Microsoft Outlook workbook, “Have More Day at the End of Your Day”, is a valuable guide for anyone wanting to know how to use the power of technology to leave work on time. She is the author of “101 Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals,” writes a monthly informational newsletter, maintains a blog, and has authored many articles for digital information sites and magazines.
Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Outlook: 15 Outlook Features That Give You SCREAMING Productivity
This webinar is for individuals working in Outlook 2013, 2016, or 2019. Using the hidden features of Microsoft Outlook to its fullest extent makes you more productive. It’s like putting time – which is money – directly into your pocket instead of letting it trickle down the drain. You paid a great deal for the privilege of using Microsoft Outlook – why not wring every dollar you can out of it? The tips, tri..
Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Overhaul Your Outlook Inbox
Do you remember when hand-written or typed letters were the main means of communication? If so, you may also remember how glorious it was to send and receive information via the fax machine.With these methods of communication in mind, change your paradigm and celebrate email. It is fast, efficient, effective and almost instantaneous. If it is not meeting your needs, sign up for this webinar, overhaul your I..
Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Powerful Stories: Storytelling Based on Neuroscience Captures the Imagination of Your Audience and Gains Their Trust
The neuroscience of storytelling is a field of study that examines how stories affect the brain. Research has shown that stories can activate the same areas of the brain that are involved in empathy, compassion, and trust. This makes stories a powerful way to connect with people on an emotional level and build rapport.In addition, stories are memorable and persuasive. When we hear a story, our brains releas..
Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Project Management Features of Microsoft Outlook
Completing projects by the required deadline is a challenge for most project managers. The deadline is often put in jeopardy at the very beginning of the assignment because you are spinning your wheels getting the project organized and assignments made to the right team member. This is like throwing money down the drain. In contrast, you can put money in your pocket if you learn to use the project managemen..
Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Strategies to Quell Quiet Quitting
To improve the engagement of employees, start with the examination of outdated people policies and practices. One 20th-century philosophy was “do more with less” which prompted companies under pressure to improve revenues by letting people go which put extreme stress on machinery, supply chains, and workers to produce the maximum in the shortest time with the fewest resources. Naturally, “do more with less”..
Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Talking Less, Asking More: The Key to Effective Communication
In the dynamic world of business, success is not solely defined by overseeing processes, procedures, and activities. It's about nurturing relationships, and at the heart of exceptional relationships lies effective communication. Welcome to our webinar, "Question Mastery: Elevate Your Conversations, Boost Your Success," where we'll explore the transformative power of both open-ended and closed-ended question..
Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
The Chameleon Leader: An Innovative Approach to Situational Leadership
The Chameleon leadership concept evolved from the premise that decision-making and conflict resolution are efficiently approached when the leader successfully combines two or more leadership styles. In essence, some leadership styles may be successfully combined to produce the most effective results when resolving situations of conflict. Blanchard in his compendium of Situational Leadership argued that the ..
Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
The Magic of OneNote
This webinar makes you more efficient and effective as you learn the ins and outs of OneNote and how it integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and YouTube. The perfect tool for reducing the spinning of wheels in the planning, organizing and execution of tasks, projects, and presentations. With this 21st century productivity wonder tool, you can be assured nothing slips through the cr..
Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Why Employee Recognition Programs Don’t Work And What Leaders Should Do Instead
The goal of employee engagement is to earn the gift of discretionary effort. Discretionary effort is a gift because employees make a decision on a daily basis whether or not to give discretionary effort. Discretionary effort is the difference between what an employee does to get a paycheck and what the employee is capable of contributing. In a culture of rich employee experiences, employees naturally give d..
Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Why Employee Recognition Programs Rarely Work and What Leaders Can Do Instead
The goal of employee engagement is to earn the gift of discretionary effort. Discretionary effort is a gift because employees make a decision on a daily basis whether or not to give discretionary effort. Discretionary effort is the difference between what an employee does to get a paycheck and what the employee is capable of contributing. In a culture of rich employee experiences, employees naturally give d..
Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Why Opposite Personalities Irritate Each Other at Work
The factors listed above that we will discuss mean it is complex to figure out exactly why another team member annoys you. If the truth were known, you may drive him crazy as well. Looking at irritations from the top of the mountain, every team has conflict on the rough terrain as they wind their way to the top. The normal viewpoint of team conflict is negative, especially conflicts based on personality dif..
10 Features of Microsoft Outlook that Give You Screaming Productivity
Margaret Thatcher said: “Think of a day when you are supremely satisfied. It is not a day when you lounged around and did nothing, but a day when you had everything to do and you did it.” If this speaks to your daily purpose and emotional makeup, sign up for this webinar. Projects, deadlines, bosses, and your internal psychic all scream for ways to check off more items on your task list in a short amo..
10 Great Time Savers In Outlook 2013 And 2016
Do you use Outlook just for email or do you use it as the headquarters for your daily planning and execution of tasks? Whichever way you use Outlook, you will want to take advantage of the 10 in-depth tips outlined in this webinar that will make you more efficient and effective every day of your life. You’ll learn how to save precious minutes throughout the day, setting you free to use those minutes in prod..
10 Microsoft Outlook Features Attorneys Should Use
Time management for an attorney in a busy law office is a difficult task. Complicating the issue is managing the productivity of your legal team and the entire firm. If you would like more productivity at your law practice sign up for this webinar and learn the 10 most valuable Outlook features you must be using in your law practice. The outlook is a one-stop-shop for email, calendar, and tasks, and when yo..
10 Reasons OneNote is Perfect for Attorneys
Do you wish you could magically simplify your notetaking, sharing of files, and record keeping with a powerful software program? That magic is OneNote. If you have purchased OneNote in either the full-featured desktop version or the “universal” mobile-device-friendly edition and are wondering where the magic is, attend this webinar. You will discover the features that start the magic working, simplifying an..