Organizing Your Work Space

Description:
The course was designed to cover critical business and professional development topics in the shortest time possible. With a wealth of hands-on exercises, the course keeps you engaged and help you retain critical skills.

Tackle that endless paper flow with creative filing tips, clutter-busters, and workable action plans. Start today! Manage your desk and papers. Keep clutter away permanently. Avoid paper backlogs.

Duration: One day

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Preface

Section 1: Why Get Organized
Yes, You Can Get Organized
Benefits of Being Organized
Key Principles
Where Are You Now?

Section 2: How Backlogs Develop
What Is Clutter, Anyway?
How Do Paper Backlogs Develop?
Blocks to Getting Organized
Two Common Mental Blocks

Section 3: Where to Start
Decide On Your Goals
Where to Begin
The Bookcases: Reduce, Refer, Rearrange
Rearranging: How to Do It
Handling the Exceptions
Summary

Section 4: Your Work Area
The Credenza
Your Desk Drawers
Equipment
The File Drawers
Clearing the Top of Work Surfaces
How Are You Feeling?
Summary

Section 5: Filing It and Finding It
Common Filing Mistakes
Filing Guidelines
Setting Up Your Subject Files
Filing Principles
Additional Filing Information
How to Maintain Your Filing System
Summary

Section 6: Managing Your Desk and Your Papers
The Top of Your Desk
Out of Sight Is Out of Mind
Calendars
Daily To-Do Lists
Master List
Tracking Delegated Work
Summary

Section 7: Clearing Off the Stacks
Tying Up Loose Ends
Business Cards
Tickler Files
The Next-Week File
Odds and Ends
Maintaining Your Organization

Section 8: Managing Your Mail and Your Reading
Sorting Incoming Mail
Managing the Reading

Section 9: Managing E-Mail and Personal Organizers
Managing E-Mail
Cautions
Etiquette
Tips
Day Planners and Personal Organizers
Summary

Section 10: Quick Review, Charts and Checklists
Review: Getting Organized from A to Z
Review: Clearing the Top of Your Desk
Keep the Clutter Away, Permanently
Checklist: Monitor Your Progress

Section 11: A Friendly Reminder
A Final Word
Bibliography