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Controlled Chaos or Neat Freak? Discover Your Organizational Identity To Boost Productivity

Allwork

A sterile desk, several filing cabinets, and a sliding drawer that hosts several pens and pencils may automatically come to mind when you think of an organized office, but in reality, organization doesn’t need to look this way. Some individuals prefer organized chaos, but others prefer carefully filed and color-coordinated systems.

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How to Use Microsoft Office and Google Workspace Apps to Document Your Procedures

All Things Admin

Whether you’re a seasoned admin or just starting your career, documenting procedures are essential for maintaining consistency, efficiency, and clarity in your work. Now, let’s explore some of the built-in functionalities of these apps that make them indispensable for procedures documentation.

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Master Your Memory with Ron White

Success

Your goal might not be to enter a memory competition, but you might have a simpler goal to be able to remember names and faces, or what you read in a magazine or a book, or to give speeches without notes or memorize product knowledge.”. Now imagine taking all the files out of the folders in your computer and dumping them on the desktop.

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3 Ways to Create a Better System for Information Management

All Things Admin

Whether it’s handling emails, documents, or projects, having a well-organized system can significantly improve productivity and streamline decision-making processes. By assigning different colors to various categories or types of documents, you can quickly identify and retrieve them when needed. Here are two examples of this.

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How to Set Up Your Personal File System

Ian's Messy Desk

However, if that’s not workable for you right now, make sure you have a good filing system in place. You may find the these five to be adequate: Projects - files with information related to different projects you are working on. Self-Development- folders related to training: books, articles, etc. Colour code you files.

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How to Track Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to Maintain Professional Certifications

Eat Your Career

I can even earn them for books I read and articles I write. What You Need to Track Most certifications ask that you track the following information related to your learning activities: Title of the training (or name of the book, etc.) Some people use a simple Word document or Excel spreadsheet. Other folks use OneNote.

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Assistants as information managers

Practically Perfect PA

It is a fascinating document and many of the suggestions are coming into fruition four years on. These include, managing the internal filing system, administrative tasks such as holiday requests, travel management, sick leave etc. It’s not just documents. We are our office information managers!