Productivity Bits

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

After purging the unnecessary stuff that mounted in your desk and anywhere else, it’s now time to prepare your filing system. Chaos can easily break anywhere in your living space if no filing system is set up to hold the different materials that you accumulate as you work. Physical File System.

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Tips From T. Marie

OCTOBER 7, 2016

One of the most popular excuses many businesses give for needing ‘in office’ personnel is access to files. Some businesses have whole rooms full of metal filing cabinets. Within those metal behemoths are file folders stuffed with paperwork that may or may not be needed in the daily running of the business.

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Jen Lawrence

AUGUST 25, 2022

No one – I mean, no one – likes writing out the same information in emails over and over again. And then you spend about ten minutes looking for that specific email rather than just trying to recreate it. Save time and frustration by creating email templates to help with your everyday communications.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Today I share a simple method to create your own ACTION/Quick Reference system. Create Your Action/Quick Reference System 1 -- Start with what is on top of your desk.  Call, write, pay, scan, enter data, read, file and write are all examples of the verbs you might have. Video of the Paper Pile to Action System.

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 31, 2023

Files, photos, passwords, apps, emails, and more fill our virtual space. As modern-day professionals, we are all overloaded with electronic stuff! Everything (the useful and the useless) gets mixed together, and it’s nearly impossible to find anything. This kind of digital clutter is mentally draining and physically distracting.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 9, 2014

Like your desk becoming overrun with paper piles, or your PC becoming littered with folders and files, so too can you ecommerce system become disorganized and out-of-control. Your system will quickly become cluttered with all of these different lists, and it will make finding specific lists harder. ” at [link].

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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? If you really do have to put a lot of files in a folder, place a rubber band around the folder.

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Success

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Email is probably the easiest form of communication between team members; it’s also easily misinterpreted. You shouldn’t avoid email, but you shouldn’t use it as your sole mode of communication either. Collaboration usually involves a lot of revisions and file updates. Create a file management system.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 12, 2017

So it goes without saying that you get tons of emails, oh and your Executive probably gets tons of emails too! One area that is my absolute weak spot is email. I am guilty of being an email addict and spending unnecessary amounts of time reading, replying and filing my emails.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 27, 2018

The problem is it is now filed in the back burner of my mind. I find with the volume of work admins deal with throughout the day, week and month, we need some system to keep things straight. When I receive an email relating to a meeting, I create a meeting sheet and cut and paste the email in there and make any relevant notes.

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BMT Office Administration

JUNE 22, 2022

Keeping track of paperwork can be a challenge, It’s easy to misplace a file or even spill coffee on a document on your desk. If your desk is still cluttered with paper files or documents, it’s probably time to consider switching to electronic records management (ERM). Better file retention compliance. Saving time.

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Recruit CRM

MAY 26, 2021

Suppose you own a recruitment agency with just 30 recruiters and you're looking for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) that suits your small business needs but guess what? So keep reading to find more about the best applicant tracking system out of the lot below and begin your recruiting journey with ease.

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Recruit CRM

MAY 26, 2021

Suppose you own a recruitment agency with just 30 recruiters and you're looking for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) that suits your small business needs but guess what? So keep reading to find more about the best applicant tracking system out of the lot below and begin your recruiting journey with ease.

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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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Office Organization Success

APRIL 14, 2009

As soon as you do an activity/thing/step (whatever you want to call it) more than once, then you need to create a system! What is a system? A system simply describes HOW you do something i.e.: How do you create a new client file? I created a fillable form that I simply send via email asking my clients to fill in!

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Plan for a lower mandatory e-filing threshold. We don’t yet know whether the IRS will issue final regulations dropping the mandatory e-filing threshold down to 100 or more information returns from 250 or more returns. You can be penalized for filing W-2s, 1099s, and 1095s on which you report incorrect Social Security numbers.

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Recruit CRM

MAY 26, 2021

Suppose you own a recruitment agency with just 30 recruiters and you're looking for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) that suits your small business needs but guess what? So keep reading to find more about the best applicant tracking system out of the lot below and begin your recruiting journey with ease.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

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? - Sometimes I wonder if I am duplicating my efforts by using a calendar and the tickler files. What are your thoughts in this area?

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 24, 2009

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… this is a really important concept, and once you’ve got to grips with this, marketing becomes a whole lot easier!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 6, 2010

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. So what I'd like to share with you today are my top 5 steps to setting up your core office organization systems.

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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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Success

JULY 13, 2021

To create my outline, I use a system knowable only unto myself that involves scraps of paper, many different colored pens, and files that sometimes get lost. My imperfect but functional system for noting the things I’ve gathered involves: Emailing the idea to myself: I include enough context so I’ll understand it months later.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Over the course of a working lifetime an office worker will drink an average of 24,684 cups of tea, disagree with colleagues 479 times and send a staggering 400,816 emails. So, getting organised and implementing policies or a filing system to help life in the office run a little more smoothly could be very worthwhile in the long run.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 17, 2011

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?  savvyspaces Steph: birthdayalarm.com - sends an email reminder 1 week before and again a couple days. Great reminder system.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 30, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 2 Measures of effective productivity systems… Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on June 30, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. I few years ago, when asked for my best productivity tip, I posted, use the system that works for you. Thanks for visiting!

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

For most business owners there will be a physical client file that you’ll need to create. One of the simplest ways of creating this file is by using a manila file folder in which you simply drop your paperwork into. Physical: Create a Client Contact Sheet. Click here to activate your Membership.

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Allwork

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The cons of expert freelancers They can be tough to integrate into existing systems. Maybe it’s a 10% increase in email sales in Q1 — but is that a year-over-year increase, or a quarter-over-quarter one? Develop a file-sharing system. Don’t have a time management system? They’re agile hires. They can quit suddenly.

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The Office Professionals Place

AUGUST 8, 2010

Poor Management System Do you feel as though your company does not value you as an employee? or a Poor Management System is condition that embodies many companies due to economic times, change in company practices, and company personnel. Log Files As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.

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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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Recruit CRM

OCTOBER 28, 2021

While we run NPS surveys every month, we also have a live chat support system where Recruit CRM users request features and we keep directing them to Canny. or, Go into the candidate profile and click and open the existing “Resume” file and click on the Green button at the bottom that says, “Generate Formatted Resume”.

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Office Organization Success

MARCH 6, 2009

Your filing system is at the very heart of your business – with a proper filing system in place you will very quickly and easily be able to find the information you need, when you need it. And, of course, you’ll be getting templates and checklists so that setting up your filing system will be so easy!

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All Things Admin

MARCH 9, 2022

When I combined the information on adult ADHD with what I’ve learned in treating my generalized anxiety disorder, and my Time and Space Style Inventory (TSSI) results, it helped me create some better systems for managing my work environment for improved focus and productivity. Creating detailed checklists on paper and in OneNote.

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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). In fact, I’m going to give you a complete overview of my brand new time management system. I moved to electronic systems after I lost my paper planner on an airplane in 2010.

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Tips From T. Marie

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This can be done both in person, with a physical intro packet or via email or messenger with a digital file. Often the free alternatives to popular programs don’t always play nice with other computer systems or the programs a client might be using. You could even create your intro packet on video and share the link!

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Office Organization Success

JANUARY 6, 2016

Clear out your desk and files. And it’s amazing what you come across too … your next big program could have been lurking for months in your filing cabinet! The First Step In Getting Back On Track … Get Your FREE Online Business & Marketing Systems Checklist. Click here for immediate access.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

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.    Multiple studies on business productivity will tell you that huge amounts of time are wasted on email.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 8, 2007

The Bring-Forward System (or sometimes referred to as a BF system) might be an old term for the younger assistant, but the principle is similar to using your Tasks in Outlook: You need to have some sort of system to bring forward items that need to be handled at a future date.

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