Office Organization
Seven Steps To A Clean & Clutter Free Office In The New Year
By Debbie Gilster
An organized and clean office is necessary for optimal productivity at work. The Wall Street Journal claims that an average executive wastes six weeks per year retrieving misplaced information due to messy desks and files. That can add up to a loss of 12.3% of earnings for managers making $75,000 a year. January [...]
Quick! Organise your office
By Marcia Francois
It’s hard to be productive when your space is not only a mess, but also disorganised.
60% of people are visual (I am too!) so clutter and “stuff” strewn all over the place will just drive you up the wall!
Before we start, let’s get ready:
Going Green in the Office
By Janet Barclay, MVA
How green is your office? Do you regularly practice the three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle? Listed below are ten strategies for reducing your office’s environmental footprint. How many of these do you do on a regular basis?
Organizing Paperwork for Your Bookkeeper
by Janet Barclay and Jennifer Kubilis
When starting out, it’s not uncommon to personally handle all the work involved with running your business, but if all goes well, you’ll reach a point where it makes more sense to pay someone else to perform some of the administrative functions, so you can devote more time to serving [...]
To Shred or Not to Shred – That is the Question
by John Morris
Records management is one of the most important elements of good business management, and there are several instances when you need to destroy your records for the good of your customer and for your own protection.
5 Steps to a Tidy Desk
by Marcia Francois
You won’t believe all the excuses I get from people about their untidy desks!
“It’s because I’m creative” or “I know where everything is”.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
This may very well be true. However, for most people, an untidy desk makes you feel overwhelmed and out of control.
And how can you be productive when you’re overwhelmed? Right?!
The [...]
Letting Go Can Be Hard but Doable
by Catherine Franz
Being a coach, I learned through attending Coach University about letting go of the “stuff” in my life that no longer fueled it. This enhanced itself through my studies in becoming a master practitioner in the laws of attraction — the process of how our environment, the things and people in it, affect [...]
If I Can’t See It, I’ll Forget About It!
by Janet Barclay, MVA
One of the most common reasons people invite me to their office for an organizing consultation is to help them deal with the piles of paperwork that are encroaching on their workspace.
It is generally understood that part of the problem is the lack of an efficient filing system and by efficient, I [...]
Is Organization for You?
By Suzanne McLoone
So you want to get organized. Before you start on the road to blissful organization, ask yourself one question. Do you really want to get organized?
A lot of individuals and yourself may be included, think they SHOULD get organized. Not because they have the deep down stirrings of panic and they see the [...]
February Is “Archive Your Files” Month
By Janet Barclay, MVA
It seems that you’ve just got used to it being a new year, and here it is February, and time to archive your files!
Why archive your files? Quite simply, because if you don’t, your filing cabinet will become overfilled, and you’ll have trouble locating needed documents and finding room for new ones. [...]
