Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2017

One of the greatest advantages organizations achieves from automating various processes is saving time, among other resources. Thus, by automating some tasks in the cause of the day, you make easier the processes that exhaust you mentally, physically and even psychologically. If This Then That (IFTTT).

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 19, 2013

It is no secret that you work more efficiently, are more motivated and less stressed out when your workplace is well organized. You can also include file attachments. The app is focused on entering and completing to-dos; moreover, you can add, tag, and organize your to-dos into lists, projects and nested lists. MindMeister.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 13, 2012

One of the handiest tools in our home is a communication/organization centre. It’s a two-part system, a message board and a calendar (see images below). The dry-erase calendar is magnetic on the back and is stuck to our refrigerator. The calendar serves to track what is going on in the month. Setting up your system.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Try This Instead | Main | Be Smart About Using the Telephone » The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh In We are in the home stretch of 2009 -- bring on 2010!!    Pros of Planning Tool: Very organized product. Very well laid out.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 23, 2021

Review calendars and compile date and time options. Look for logical breaks in the process. Review calendars and compile date and time options. Review calendars and compile date and time options. Procedure explaining the meeting materials assembly and distribution process for attendees. Travel planning.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Make an appointment - Don’t just hope you find the time to clean up, set a calendar entry and stick to it. Organizer ( paper or electronic) to enter to-dos, addresses or calendar data. Sort – everything into boxes/containers according to what needs to be done: file , shred , recycle , refer, toss, etc.

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Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

by Even if you keep your desk nice and organized and you process your incoming paper promptly, you may still have clutter lurking where you can’t see it. Whether you do it digitally or with a pen, you need to get information out of your head and onto your to do list and calendar. File or toss the paper. Use the tools.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   If your business is not effectively organized, it’s costing you money.    Yet, we try to do it all of the time by putting systems in place that don’t match our personal or our organizations’ styles.   There are different organization styles too. 

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BMT Office Administration

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For instance, if a task has complicated instructions, you can attach a Word file to the card that explains the work in more detail. For instance, Asana and other programs offer Gantt charts, calendar views, and time-tracking, whereas Trello does not (unless you pay for power-ups, but more on that in a bit). Calendar view.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 25, 2016

Apps for file access, e-mail, calendar, password protection, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, virtual meetings, news, weather and travel are examples of key productivity tools mobile devices should have installed. (I Backup and store your files via a cloud service. Share and collaborate on files.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 28, 2016

Set about creating your core office organization systems. For example, how do you create a new client file? List all of the steps you take in a process from start to completion – these steps will form your system. Create a calendar template. A system is simply a description of HOW you do something.

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Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 21, 2017

As we remove the plastic wrappings from our new calendars and start neatly recording upcoming events and plans, we’re inspired to make 2018 the best year ever. Supervisors and managers in your organization are having the same thoughts—they want to make 2018 the best year ever, for themselves and their people. A fresh start.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MARCH 1, 2012

Working at an organizations’ head office, we see a lot of paper. Instead of filing the PDF on the network, the document was printed and placed in a filing cabinet , where it will sit until doomsday. Once you’ve completed these items, the paper should be filed, re-routed to someone else or discarded. DELEGATE IT.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 15, 2014

Instead of filing the PDF on the network, the document was printed and placed in a filing cabinet , where it will sit until doomsday or at least until someone cleans out those files. Despite improvements in document handling technology, despite the convenience of PDF files, we still produce a lot of paper. DELAY IT.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 25, 2011

  But, how do you make sure to organize all of those business cards so that you CAN do the right FOLLOW UP? The most effective networkers have a system to manage/organize business cards and their contacts.  They are then placed in a reference (Rolodex) file by type of business and not the name.   :-).

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 25, 2010

Make an appointment - Don’t just hope you find the time to clean up, set a calendar entry and stick to it. Organizer ( paper or electronic) to enter to-dos, addresses or calendar data. Sort – everything into boxes/containers according to what needs to be done: file , shred, recycle , refer, toss, etc.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 26, 2012

If yours is an organization that encourages less-formal communication, you may find people dropping by to discuss anything from last night’s big game to next week’s big presentation. Unproductive meetings – Peter Drucker said, “Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. Use the two-minute rule to process your e-mail.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JULY 22, 2011

  Some people have used the Post It papers to improve work processes while others have decorated their spaces and even community art work using the stickies.  I stick it on my calendar, in my car on the dash or on my mirror in the bathroom. Thanks to Suzanne Brown of Delightfully Organized. Big Note For Big Tasks.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 27, 2012

The “oops” factor: If you need more than two paragraphs to cover your topic, you’re better off using the phone, or attaching a Word* file. Quick fix: Pretty obvious here: Use your organization's internal phone book’s Employee Search tool to verify names and ensure that you have the right person in mind. Henry,” “Scott,” or “Boris”).

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Office Organization Success

JULY 31, 2009

Set about creating your core office organization systems. For example, how do you create a new client file? List all of the steps you take in a process from start to completion – these steps will form your system. Create a calendar template. A system is simply a description of HOW you do something.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Technological innovation has become the driving force behind mass production in the manufacturing industry, making assembly-line work almost obsolete in the process. Tablets, advanced computers, electronic organizers, and smartphones are all quite commonplace now.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways » 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To E-mail, it is the form of communication that we love to hate and love to love.  Thanks to Stacey Anderson of Organized Innovations, LLC 2. Do the dump!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 3, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   It is Get Organized Month and now is a great time to focus on your personal affairs.    Read, sort and process your email and snail mail daily.    Read, sort and process your email and snail mail daily.  Link Lineup!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

            Dawn McCloskey Ultra Organized, LLC. OneNote: My Filing Cabinet In The Clouds. Microsoft's OneNote is my go-to organizing tool for anything that I do online.I create notebooks and files just like I would with paper, but now it is all organized on my computer.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Maybe You Should | Main | The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh In » Do You Hate Your To-Do List?   When we explored her process we found what I see a number of people experience.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 8, 2010

Please welcome today’s guest poster, James Adams, and his collection of apps to organize thoughts. (We Regardless if you are a freelance writer, a business executive, a graphic artist or if you are working a part-time job, you surely could use a bit of help in organizing your thoughts so that your days run more smoothly.

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Productivityist

JULY 20, 2017

A wall calendar. Organizing your desktop and throw out all those dumb pictures you keep around. Organizing your smartphone apps. If you are at home on this retreat: clean out your closets, organize your drawers, clean out your junk drawer, dust and clean off your bookshelves, donate old clothes to charity.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 23, 2013

You see, for the past several years, I’ve been using a variety of tech tools to help organize my life and work—appointments, tasks, projects and more. And anything stored on your hard drive can be retrieved from backup files (I use Carbonite for those who are interested). I like pretty organizers and stickers and notepads.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 30, 2008

As a secretary I typed letters, answered the phone and did the filing. An executive assistant does this and more, including taking minutes and organizing board meetings. In the past the Administrative Assistant was the face and voice of the organization to anyone who called or visited the office. Are we ready?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

.  She tells me, "Between face-to-face networking, social networking, clients, prospects and people downloading stuff from my website it is tough for me to keep all of my out reach organized!"   It is your memory -- only organized!  " I can relate!  What is a CRM? Using a CRM Could Look Like This.

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Success

JANUARY 8, 2024

Using a goal setting app can help keep the tracking process manageable. An app can have many exciting features, like monitoring multiple goals, a task manager or to-do lists, access to a personal coach and integration with your calendar or other apps. Setting goals and tracking your progress is essential for personal development.

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The Office Professionals Place

JULY 16, 2010

Organize then Prioritize. In order to effectively prioritize tasks, first you must organize your workspace. The ability to be organized allows you to focus and easily find documents and supplies you will need to complete projects. Growing in the workplace is an ongoing process. Change your attitude. Learn something new.

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

You don’t just pick up your tool haphazardly but you go through that decision-making process. File System. T he tool that we integrate to our productivity system must go hand in hand with our file system or the stuff that we work with. Nirvana – This is a “GTD software for Getting Things Done.&#

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 12, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   While it is really from the grass family, bamboo has some amazing strategic growth processes --heck some can even grow up to 100 feet tall!    The rhizomes are the organism's growth system.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   Bamboo? 

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 28, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 28, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , Travel D o you need to book meetings for your manager(s), but most meetings are all over the country or even internationally?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

Tech glitches happen all the time and 2 people controlling one person's calendar is not the easiest thing. Filing Set up a great filing system now. While you have the time, bust out the label maker, order all the supplies and prep for what all the filing you will have to do. The fewer cooks in the kitchen, the better.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Watch The Organized Admin Webinar Replay. Poll Results: Where do you struggle the most to stay organized? What was the inspiration for writing your new book, The Organized Admin? The answer was overwhelmingly getting (and staying) organized. Paper and Digital Files. Why is organization so important for admins?

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