BMT Office Administration

JULY 3, 2023

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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All Things Admin

JANUARY 10, 2022

Is it organized or a disaster area? There are three zones you need to think about as you clear the clutter and put systems in place for staying organized. Zone 1 is the main workspace at your desk – the center of activity that is within arm’s reach of your computer and phone. Take a look around your workspace. 2 pencils.

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As admins, we’re always trying to organize all the pieces and parts of our professional lives – from workspaces to meetings to travel plans. And we have to keep our executives organized, too. With so much to keep in order, it’s easy to neglect one vitally important area that requires a great deal of organization: our careers.

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

For many solopreneurs a large part of their business is working one-on-one with clients, and that means having a way of keeping all of their client information organized and easy to access. For most business owners there will be a physical client file that you’ll need to create. Physical: Create a Client Contact Sheet.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 10, 2016

Organization skills is the one thing most successful business owners have in common. Without the ability to organize your work and your resources, you could be twisting in the wind in no time. Fortunately, there are at least 9 ways to improve your organization skills without too much effort on your part. Organize your workplace.

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Office Organization Success

MARCH 30, 2013

Recently I held a laser consulting call with a client, and she basically came on the phone and said to me, “Tracey, I’m surrounded by paper. I don’t even know where to start to get organized.”. But with a bit of guidance and support, you can easily create the right systems to grow your business. Sound familiar?

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 7 Steps to Improve Your Filing System By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, September 27, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity A re you having trouble with your filing system? Dont know how to organize yourself and things are starting to pile up?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 6, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Building a successful long-term profitable business isn't about "marketing" your business, it's about "managing" your business - the marketing comes once you have your management systems in place. CREATE your paper-based filing system.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2022

While you’re certainly capable of answering the telephone, filing and ordering supplies, why waste your time on drudgery that almost anyone could do? For example, anytime Apple changed its operating system or upgraded Siri, her company needed to adapt. “We Some tasks are easy to do but also easy to hand off.

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Productivity Bits

JULY 26, 2016

Whether you work from home full-time, or simply enjoy having a workspace in the house when you need it, maintaining an organized space is crucial to your productivity. Here are a few hacks to help get you there: Binder Clip Cable Organizer Tired of the unsightly mess of cables crawling up the back of your desk like vines? Thank You! ~

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Retrieve Your Files With Ease By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Access , MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity D o you have quite a bit of filing to do? B eing able to retrieve the data is more important than an organized alphabetized file drawer.

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All Things Admin

JANUARY 11, 2023

For an Everything Out to be successful, they need to be highly organized and use storage products to ensure that everything is tidy as well as visible. A stray file, an errant stapler, or even a visible office supply organizer can put them off their game. But “clean” doesn’t always mean “organized.” What can wait?

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Professional Assistant Blog

APRIL 1, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Productivity With Shared Files By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Organize , Productivity D o you share your files with others in your firm? Do you find that you are being bombarded with updates to the same files time and time again?

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Use A Phone Call Log! By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 09, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity D o you find that when you receive phone calls or voice mail messages, you cant remember who called, what time they called, who they were trying to call, etc? Whats next?

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

For many solopreneurs a large part of their business is working one-on-one with clients, and that means having a way of keeping all of their client information organized and easy to access. For most business owners there will be a physical client file that you’ll need to create. Physical: Create a Client Contact Sheet.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Cause and Effect - Productivity is an Action, Not a Result @QuietSpacing | Main | Organize Your Ideas and Watch Them Unfold » Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - First of all, there is not a perfect tool or a perfect system.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 17, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! 5 Steps to Meal Planning Success | Main | Productivity and Organization Link Lineup » 10 Reminder Systems for You To Consider Do you have difficulty remembering important dates?  Great reminder system. Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You might be using a new phone system or dealing with new project management software. Tools of the Trade Familiarize them with the essential programs and platforms used by the company (project management, file management, internal communications, virtual meeting platforms, etc.), With a Powerful Professional Portfolio.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 19, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Building Habits Habitforge Another Tool for Creating Habits :: [link] -- Professional Organizer, Janine Adams, shares her experience using habitforge -- an online habit building tool.     Have you written any great articles on organizing and productivity? 

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Closing Shared Files While Away From Desk By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity D o you share files on a network within your office? Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work? I am one of these people.

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Productivity Bits

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Decreased organization in the office area has been shown to largely limit productivity. In order to organize these papers, set up a box where each document type can be placed on your desk. An accordion file is also a great way to organize documents. Tip #3: Never Lose Sight of Your System. Tip #4: Limit Nicknacks.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It pains me to announce that my grand experiment with using electronic time management systems has officially come to an end (sort of). 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. To access online systems, you have to (duh!)

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All Things Admin

MARCH 9, 2022

ADHD can be tough for anyone to handle, but for an administrative professional, where things like attention to detail, time management, and organization are literally in the job description, it can mean disaster. . I keep specific actions on a sticky note for each file to help me get right into the flow of work. Anxiety and stress.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Gone are the days when filing, phone skills, and semi-legible shorthand were key requirements for an admin job. Analytics – The ability to make sense of big data, and translate it in ways that can help an organization become more profitable, is a skill that is already in high demand, and that demand will only increase in the future.

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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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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. Evernote is software designed for note taking and archiving, which is available for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, as well as for OS X and Microsoft. You can also include file attachments.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 30, 2011

  I have written about her many times here on Productive & Organized.   So, I reached out to my community of Professional Organizers and they really came through for me.  The software is a very powerful, yet simple indexing system for paper office files. SMEAD Viewables® Color Labeling System.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Trying to Phone/Fax Internationally? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, January 07, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Productivity D o you have trouble figuring out how to call a client or even a colleague in another country? Then you just enter the phone or fax number in the third section.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! » Top 9 Mistaken Organizing Statements There are a number of statements that I have heard people say over the years with regard to their organizing projects.    This system worked for and I know I can make it work for me." 2 - "I can change! 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Save Time Doing Simple Things that ADD UP to Major Time Savers | Main | 5 Tips for Productivity, Organizing and Changing Your Life » Tips to Go Almost Paperless "Steph, do you have some ideas for how I can go paperless?  400 Gigs Gone!

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 9, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Opening Microsoft Office 2007 Files in Microsoft Office XP By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , MS-Access , MS-Excel , MS-Outlook , MS-PowerPoint , MS-Word , Productivity I recently had a vendor send us an Excel spreadsheet that he created in Microsoft Word 2007 format.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Organize With Social Bookmarking! By The Professional Assistant on Monday, November 03, 2008 Filed Under: Networking , Organize , Productivity D o you find articles on this site intriguing? You can also use these services to organize yourself by adding "tags" or keywords to the articles that youve saved.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Unfortunately, these essential business tools can be challenging to organize, especially as your company grows and you balance work and home life. Fortunately, there are numerous excellent and intuitive apps available for almost all phones using iOS and Android. Systems: Web Browsers. Systems: Windows, Mac, iOS, Android.

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Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Do some filing. Get that pile off your desk and into the file drawer. Note: this works best if you have a good filing system, meaning one that isn’t overstuffed and that you can find things quickly in. Again, it works best with a good filing system. How about some scanning? Out they go.

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All Things Admin

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Follow In-Person Meeting Norms You wouldn’t wander into the boardroom at work 15 minutes late while munching on a cheeseburger and talking loudly on your cell phone. Make sure your laptop is charged, your internet connection works, and you have any files or information you’ll need to access ready to go.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 threw a wrench into this tried and true system for most companies. An example would be call centers, where employee phone calls and voicemails were recorded and closely monitored to ensure their quality and efficiency. Time tracking and file tracking. File tracking uses and benefits.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 21, 2007

I cannot stand clutter so to me it is very important to keep myself organized. If my desk has sticky notes all over the place, files here and there and papers, papers, papers, then I begin to feel buried and out of control. I need to be organized so I can think and function better.

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