Speaker Profile
KARLA BRANDAU
Karla Brandau is a thought leader in management and team building techniques. She trains individuals to improve their communications and thus their relationships with anyone they interface with.
She specializes in personalities, communication skills, leadership principles.
She is the CEO of Workplace Power Institute and has educated managers with her proven leadership principles in companies such as Motorola, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Panasonic, and BYD America.
She has a degree in education and is a Certified Speaking Professional, an earned designation given by National Speakers Association.
Karla’s book, How to Earn the Gift of Discretionary Effort, teaches managers how to be the leader people CHOOSE to follow, not have to follow because of their position on the organizational chart.

Karla Brandau
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Win With Assertiveness, Not Aggressiveness
The proper amount of assertiveness can earn you respect, decrease confrontation, and increase your effectiveness in conversations. The definition of assertiveness is communicating your needs, wants, and opinions to others in a direct and tactful way, then listening to and being receptive to their needs and opinions. Being assertive is not being confrontational or aggressive. In this webinar, you will gain a..

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
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
When 24 Hours is Not Enough - Time Management and Technology Tips
One of the first things to do when evaluating where your time goes is to evaluate the items that are vital to your progress and the ones that are urgent but not so vital. Individuals who are good at time management know how to manage the most important tasks to get them done, refuse to mourn over what did not get done, and have the ability to let go of the syndrome of “I have to get everything done that is ..

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..

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..

17 Microsoft Outlook Quick Tricks Every Legal Professional Should Know
Superior technical and organizational skills are critical for the success of a busy legal office. This is a difficult task when you consider managing yourself PLUS the productivity of your entire legal team. If you would like increased productivity in your legal office, sign up for this webinar and learn the 17 most valuable Outlook features your entire firm must use.Outlook is a one-stop-shop for email, ca..

Make Outlook a Partner in Productivity
Are you one of those people who regularly sign up for time management seminars but you still can’t get a handle on all your projects and tasks? Then sign up for this webinar and get real help, not theory.Effective time management demands that you understand time management principles AND have a tool to implement those principles, this webinar combines both. You are given fundamental time management principl..