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

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

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665 Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Feel free, but please give me proper credit and let me know so that I can thank you! Part of the Calahan Solutions, Inc.

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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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On The Job

MARCH 11, 2019

Rubin's research into happiness has shown that there's no one-size-fits-all approach to organization, but rather using some strategies to reach out own personal state of inner calm. (I I once created a file called 'active useful documents' and then never looked in it again," Rubin writes. Allow technology to clear clutter.

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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? - Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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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

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 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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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2017

One of the greatest advantages organizations achieves from automating various processes is saving time, among other resources. Choosing the right tool might mean selecting the best fax machine , which refers to choosing optimum working capacity for your work flow.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 24, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! It Could Be Gone Faster Thank You Think - Ours Almost Was » The Great Organizing Giveaway is Here! The new year is a great time to think of ways that you can improve your life -- Getting Organized always lands in the top 10 lists of New Year Resolutions. 

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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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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Main | Little Things Really Can Make a Big Impact » Check Out This Great Resource for Organizing Tips and Products (and maybe win some stuff too) Today's post is short since you received 2 earlier this week! Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 8, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Listen Live to Stephanie on Edge of Change - Interview with the Experts #Productivity #Organization | Main | My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action » Listen Stephanie Talks About #Organizing Myths on the Active Christian Media Show You are invited!

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Copying Tables, Pictures or Text in PDF Files to Other Sources By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, January 17, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , MS-PowerPoint , MS-Word , Productivity D id your boss just ask you to copy a table, picture or text to another source of software, such as Microsoft Excel or Word ?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 6, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! So what I'd like to share with you today are my top 5 steps to setting up your core office organization systems. CREATE your paper-based filing system. Having an efficient filing system in place will enable you to find the information you need, when you need it!

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Ian's Messy Desk

MARCH 29, 2011

It is now time to put things in order and implement a system that will keep this space organized until spring 2012 and beyond. File and organize: Once you’ve decided on what papers you will keep, set up a filing system that will be easy for you to follow. “Go Through Your Files and Purge Them!

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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.  " If you are struggling to find time, then you have an even bigger need to get organized! 

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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? 

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Many organizations provide orientation sessions for new hires, which is helpful, but doesn't usually cover the little things. I organized the manual with information about the organization and the area I worked in. Gone fishing Next, I started searching through hardcopy files at my desk and electronic ones on the server.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! We May Not Have Heard From You » Personal Productivity & Organizing Link Lineup There is some fantastic content out on the web and I often have clients and readers ask me what I have found.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Part of the Calahan Solutions, Inc.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665 Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Are you Time-challenged Tim or Non-productive Nancy? Then get in on this giveaway. Main | Dont Strangle Your Reminders!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Main | Overwhelm Busters (my buddies share their best again) » Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds  A few weeks ago my colleague Janice Simon and I were chatting on Twitter about some of the changes that I have put into place in the last 1.5 years or so. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665 Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « You Can Make a Difference in YOUR Productivity in 7 Minutes! Part of the Calahan Solutions, Inc.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways   As you know, this past November I started sharing my tips, tricks and strategy in audio format as well as in writing.  Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways : Comments Rather Listen?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - Whether you want to create an innovative product or provide an unusual service, organizing your ideas is key to seeing your vision come to pass. You, too, can organize your ideas into a profitable business.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 4, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Work From Home Mother - How to Organize Your Life and Home to Succeed | Main | Office Organization - 5 Steps to Setting Up Your Core Systems » Life Coaching Tips to Organize Yourself For Success (Guest Post: Natalie Dee) Nothing succeeds like success.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 23, 2007

Home About Me Advertise How to Organize Tasks Effectively By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 23, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize A task here, a task there! The question is, “How do I prioritize and organize my tasks? When does it ever end? Well, you are not alone.

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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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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 7, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Main | 5 Easy Ways Kick-Start Your Daily Personal Productivity » Get Organized and Lose Weight!   By learning and acting on a few organization tactics, you can get back on track just in time for swimsuit weather!  Comments Get Organized and Lose Weight!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! It's a great way to save files and photos on the "cloud." Thanks to Lisa Montanaro of LM Organizing Solutions, LLC 4. Thanks to Natalie Conrad of Organized Habits 5. Thanks to Elaine Quinn of Space Craft Organizing 6. A different take on the to-do list.

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Productivity Bits

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Always back up your files electronically. Normally, folks in an office would back up their essential files by photocopying it and filing it away in an aptly named folder, then placing it into a filing cabinet for archival purposes. Organize your folders by project, client, document or by any other means necessary.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   Have you written any great articles on organizing and productivity?  family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665 Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   Great insights.   What Have You Read?

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Eco-Office Gals

MAY 24, 2012

Companies, businesses and industries with lots of customers have to implement several filing systems. The patient would have to wait for an undefined amount of time until hospital personnel look through thousands of files. Papers require manually filing which can take up valuable time and office space.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 8, 2011

  Start with something like electronic faxes.    We use a service that allows a person to fax to a phone number, but rather than a physical fax coming out on our end, it lands in our email in-boxes.    Most of the time we look at the fax and file it electronically, or delete it. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! » 7 Tips for Organizing Your Home-Based Business Home based businesses are more than a passing fade.    Getting organized is a challenge for most business owners.    There are many organizations that provide virtual assistance. 

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MARCH 24, 2011

Still, don’t you deserve a workspace that’s organized, bright, cheerful, and attractive? A good place to start is to streamline your files and documents. Clean out your file cabinet. Put old client files into storage and only keep active files in your immediate office area. Update your databases.

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