Global People Skills Conference

FOR RELEASE: June 5 2002

Gwinnett Speaker Karla Brandau Featured at Global People Skills Conference

Conference Teaches Portable People Skills

Atlanta, Georgia, June 5, 2002 – In today’s marketplace, possessing portable people skills can move your career skillfully from corporation to corporation and from project to project and keep you employed. Portable People Skills are a necessity! Lilburn resident, Karla Brandau will share her expertise and address these skills at the upcoming Global People Skills Conference 2002 on June 27th and 28th from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the World Trade Center Atlanta at 303 Peachtree Street NE.

Brandau says that organizational camaraderie and productivity involve relating to others across a chasm of significant behavioral differences. Improving your ‘People Skills’ helps you figure out how to bridge the gap between yourself and others, thereby making the organizational climate more collaborative and focused on company goals.

Statistics show that about 80% of a worker’s time in an office setting is spent communicating and much of that time is spent un-puzzling perceptions, dissecting divergent views, figuring out unexpected responses, and straightening out miscommunications that make temperatures rise.

The problem of people skills increases when a low understanding of cultural differences exists. Cultural differences are noticeable whether your work team is made up of people from California and New York or from Bosnia and Brazil.

The Global People Skills Conference 2002 addresses cultural differences and a host of other people skills that are valuable whether you are in a leadership position, a project manager, or the manager of a virtual/global team.

Since June is International People Skills Month, as declared by Chases International Calendar of Events, the conference provides the right opportunity to spend two power-packed days with experts like Brandau learning the portable people skills that turn daily workplace interactions into business and personal success.

To learn more about the Global People Skills Conference, additional speakers and workshops, and to register, go to www.globalpeopleskills.com or call People Skills International at 770-923-0883.

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