Overview:

As a manager, you juggle competing priorities while guiding others toward results, often without time to pause and plan.

This webinar equips forward-thinking leaders with the mindset, skills, and strategies to thrive in a tech-powered workplace while remaining deeply human in their approach. This means we discuss how emotional intelligence influences your team and your ability to lead them into the future.

Why should you Attend: Many talented leaders unintentionally carry ineffective processes, outdated habits, and unresolved team issues from one year into the next.

This webinar helps managers pinpoint what no longer works whether it's bottlenecks, inefficient communication channels, misaligned expectations, unproductive meetings, or lack of innovative mindsets.

You will be given strategies to replace obstacles with systems that support a more agile, high-performing team environment in 2026.

With this instruction, you can begin 2026 with focus, energy, and confidence.

Areas Covered in the Session: In this webinar you will learn how to:

• Guide teams through change with clarity, stability, and confidence
• Identify processes, meetings, and habits that no longer serve team goals
• Clarify leadership priorities for 2026 and avoid overcommitting the team
• Set realistic, measurable goals that teams can execute confidently
• Reset expectations and accountability for the new year
• Break annual objectives into quarterly milestones for accountability
• Create a practical, written action plan for the first 30, 60, and 90 days of 2026
• Align individual team goals with organizational strategy
• Assess team engagement and discretionary effort objectively
• Leverage tools, technology, and AI to improve workflow and efficiency
• Establish systems that support consistency rather than constant firefighting
• Motivate team members to contribute discretionary effort, not just compliance
• Assess team engagement and discretionary effort objectively
• Improve decision-making under pressure
• Create boundaries that protect strategic leadership time

Who Will Benefit:

• Chief Executive Officers
• Chief Human Resources Officers
• Vice Presidents of Operations
• Directors of Organizational Development
• Learning and Development Professionals
• Senior Managers
• Team Leaders
• Project Managers
• Office Managers
• Supervisors and Frontline Leaders


Instructor:

Karla Brandau is a thought leader in management and team building techniques. She trains managers to improve their relationship with the employees to earn their gift of discretionary effort. She specializes in personalities, communication skills, leadership principles. She is the CEO of Workplace Power Institute and has educated mangers 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.