Office Organization
Top 7 Questions to Help You Get Rid of Stuff
By Sue Brenner, PCC, PMP
Do you have boxes jam-packed with stuff in your office? Is it hard to tell what you need to keep and what you need to pitch? Answer these 7 questions to help you know what needs to go.
1. Do I use it?
Go ahead. Peek inside [...]
Buying the Right Furniture
By: Azlan
Selecting the correct computer desk for use in your home office is a more important decision than a lot of people who work from home understand. This is especially true for those of us who operate online businesses from home. Why? Because we tend to spend more hours at our deskss than those who [...]
Spring Cleaning Your Office
By Janet Barclay, MVA
As an office organizing consultant, I often see old computers, printers, and monitors taking up valuable space in both workspaces and storage areas, as well as drawers and boxes full of old cell phones, calculators, and other equipment that is no longer used. Although some business owners hold on to such items [...]
9 PHASES of Organizing with EFT™
By Figen Genco, BA.
“We shape our buildings and afterwards, our buildings shape us,” said Winston Churchill. The kind of environment we live in has effects on our thinking, behaviorism, and health. A chaotic environment has an adverse effect on physical and emotional state.
Organize with EFT Series- PHASE1 Stop the Clutter with EFT
By Figen Genco, BA.
Most organizing books suggest that getting rid of clutter is the first step in getting organized. This mostly means dealing with the clutter which has built up over the years. However, because of constant incoming data such as paper, objects and events, people are not even capable of catching up with daily [...]
Phase 2: Observe Habits
By Figen Genco, BA.
When people decide to get organized, very often what they do is rush to buy products which they think will help them get organized. Those products get buried under the piles of stuff, becoming part of the clutter. This is because “organized” is related to people more than it is to places.
Phase 3: Eliminate the Unnecessary
By Figen Genco, BA.
Phase 3: Eliminate the Unnecessary
Eliminating the Unnecessary covers four areas:
1. Eliminating the unnecessary behaviors
2. Eliminating the unnecessary objects
3. Eliminating the unnecessary people
4. Eliminating the unnecessary events
Phase 6: Understand Paper Management
By Figen Genco, BA.
Paper management is one of the biggest problems people face today - when we are supposed to be “paperless”. Statistics indicate that there are nearly 650,000,000 pages printed from computers every day. That’s enough to fill a file drawer 180 miles long! And there are 178.9 billion fax pages sent/received per day; [...]
Ten Tips for Spring Cleaning
By Janet Barclay, MVA
When spring arrives, it’s traditional to open up the windows, air out your home or office, and get rid of all the dust and clutter that’s accumulated all winter. But how can you get motivated when the warm weather is calling you outside? Here are ten tips to help take the sting [...]
Tips for Getting Organized
By Camille Carboneau, CFRW/C, CPRW, CEIP, CRW,
Set goals, but set them with deadlines. The first step in getting organized is goal setting. Do you want to organize your home? Your office? Your family? Your time? Write down exactly what you want to do, and assign a deadline for accomplishing that goal. The deadline should be [...]
