Summary
Organizing Your Work Space
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.
Completion of this course will earn 0.575 CEUs.
Outline
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Section 1: Why Get Organized
- Yes, You Can Get Organized
- Benefits of Being Organized
- Key Principles
- Where Are You Now?
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Section 2: How Backlogs Develop
- What Is Clutter, Anyway?
- How Do Paper Backlogs Develop?
- Blocks to Getting Organized
- Two Common Mental Blocks
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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
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Section 4: Your Work Area
- The Credenza
- Your Desk Drawers
- Equipment
- The File Drawers
- Clearing the Top of Work Surfaces
- How Are You Feeling?
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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
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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
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Section 7: Clearing Off the Stacks
- Tying Up Loose Ends
- Business Cards
- Tickler Files
- The Next-Week File
- Odds and Ends
- Maintaining Your Organization
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Section 8: Managing Your Mail and Your Reading
- Sorting Incoming Mail
- Managing the Reading
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Section 9: Managing E-Mail and Personal Organizers
- Managing E-Mail
- Cautions
- Etiquette
- Tips
- Day Planners and Personal Organizers
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**Indicates a course that is only a half day.