Ms. Karla Brandau

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 ...

Do you remember when hand-written letters or typed letters were the main means of communication? If so, you may also remember how glorious it was to send information and have immediately received via the fax machine. Nearly as irritating a ...

Each day, when an employee walks in the office door and starts work, that employee makes a conscious decision on how hard they are going to work that day. A major factor in that decision is the relationship they have with you, their manager ...

If your workload has increased, your stress is up, and you need new ideas to “get it all done,” you’ll be amazed as you learn simple Outlook tricks that make handling your heavy workload easy and the stress tips that can calm your mind. Thi ...

Microsoft Outlook is a most powerful, comprehensive software tool because it combines email, a calendar and tasks. The goal is to make your professional life more productive and fulfilling as you gain the ability to get more done in less ti ...

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 ...

Each person is born ethnocentric or believing that other people and events revolve around them which is generally true for the first few years of a child's life. The focus of activity for a growing child is inward.  Some people carry this ...

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 assi ...

Microsoft Outlook is a powerful productivity tool and if you are using it only for email and for keeping track of meetings and appointments, about 80-85% of the power of Outlook is unused. You paid a great deal for the privilege of using Mi ...

Discretionary effort is the difference between the added value an employee can bring to a task, versus the minimum effort required to get by or make do, and still receive a paycheck. Each day, when an employee walks in the office door (or l ...