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3 Ways to Create a Better System for Information Management

All Things Admin

As administrative professionals, managing large amounts of information efficiently is crucial for ensuring smooth operations. Here are three simple yet effective strategies to help you enhance your information management system. I suggest beginning each file name with a three- or four-letter abbreviation to categorize it.

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Employee personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

BMT Office Administration

Setting up employee personnel files is an important part of the recordkeeping process. However, sometimes people mistakenly think of these files as a catch-all for an individual’s paperwork. Rather, understand that general personnel files serve a distinct purpose. What to include in an employee’s personnel file.

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Master Your Memory with Ron White

Success

Many people also regret how much they could improve their lives and businesses if they could only retain more information from reading materials. White learned about the method in college when it helped pull up his GPA. The method requires memorizing a foundation of information, visualization techniques and word association.

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Tailored Procedures Documentation: Tools and Techniques for Every Learning Style

All Things Admin

Whether it’s scribbled notes or complex digital files, the importance of procedures documentation cannot be overstated. One of the more labor-intensive procedures my team and I use covers how we add new courses to our learning management system. But not everyone learns the same way. The procedure is 12 pages long.

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Podcast 102: Use information

Clutter Coach

This is Podcast 102 and it’s about using information. Are you good at gathering information? What happens to a lot of these notes is that they molder away in your file cabinet, or even in your in box waiting for you to read them again. If we wait another 24 hours before reviewing the information, we have lost 60%.

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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

BMT Office Administration

While dealing with lots of paperwork doesn’t rank as most HR professionals’ favorite task, proper recordkeeping for employee personnel files is a must for any organization. In addition, if an employee is involuntarily let go, their employee file must be kept for one year following the termination date. Why is that?

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Tax Planning for Freelancers: 5 Strategic Moves To Make Now To Avoid Tax Pain Next Year

Allwork

While the dust from the 2023 tax filing season has long since settled, if you are a freelance worker, independent contractor , or digital nomad, now isn’t the time to forget about your taxes. While celebrating U.S. Part of that process starts with taking notes on how you work, for how many hours, and from where.

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