Organising Your Workspace
Description: Tackle that endless paper flow with creative filing tips, clutter-busters, and workable action plans. Start today! Manage your desk and papers. Keep clutter away permanently. Avoid paper backlogs.
Prerequisites:
None
Why Get Organised?:
- Yes, you can get organised
- Benifits of Being Organised
- Key Principles
- Where are you now?
How Backlogs Develop:
- What is Clutter, Anyway?
- How do Paper Backlogs Develop?
- Blocks to Getting Organised
- Two common Mental Blocks
Where to Start:
- Decide On Your Goals
- Where to Begin?
- The Bookcases: Reduce, Refer, Rearrange
- Rearranging: How to do it
- Handling the Expectations
- Summary
Your Work Area:
- The Credenza
- Your Desk Drawers
- Equipment
- The File Drawers
- Clearing the Top of Work Surfaces
- How are you Feeling?
- Summary
Filing It and Finding It:
- Common Filing Mistakes
- Filing Guidelines
- Setting Up Your Subject Files
- Filing Principles
- Additional Filing Information
- How to Maintain your Filing System
- Summary
Managing Your Desk and Your Papers:
- The Top of Your Desk
- Out of Sight is Out of Mind
- Calendars
- Daily To-Do Lists
- Master List
- Tracking Delegate Worker
- Summary
Clearing Off The Stacks:
- Tying Up Loose Ends
- Business Cards
- Tickler Files
- The Next Week File
- Odds and Ends
- Maintaining Your Organisation
Managing Your Mail and Your Reading:
- Sorting Incoming Mail
- Managing and Reading
Managing E Mail and Personal Organisers:
- Managing E Mail
- Cautions
- Etiquette
- Tips
- Daily Planners and Personal Organisers
- Summary
Quick REview, Charts and Checklists:
- Review: Getting Organised A - Z
- Review: Clearing the Top of Your Desk
- Keep the Clutter Away: Permanently
- Checklist: Monitor Your Progress