Terrace Consulting – 10 years old
Its ten years now since I took the plunge and left the safe world of a regular salary payment to set up Terrace Consulting. Terrace Consulting has taken me on an amazing journey. I’ve met some wonderful people, some of whom I can now count as friends; I’ve had some exciting assignments; and most of…
read more »New Year’s resolutions – and email
It’s a good thing I didn’t make a New Year resolution to write a blog each week. Last year it was my intention to have a weekly blog but I didn’t actually make it a resolution on 1 January 2012. At the rate I’m going it’s going to be one a month. However think I…
read more »Your organised home office
One of the things I find really important when I’m working from home is that I have a space that is separated from the rest of the house. My home office is upstairs in the attic. To get to it I have to climb the stairs and walk through a room that has become a…
read more »The need for structure in your business
I’ve been on holiday in the South island of New Zealand for the past 2 weeks. That’s why this blog has been silent for a while. I took two cousins from England for a tour of the West Coast, southern lakes and Fiordland. We spent a lot of time in rain forest and it rekindled…
read more »Selling your house? Give your home office a makeover first
Friends of mine moved house recently and I caught up with them in week two in their new home. By then most of their life was sorted and everything had a place in the kitchen, garden tools were stored neatly in the garden shed, the linen was neatly stacked in a hall cupboard and the…
read more »What does gardening have in common with filing?
Last weekend I was in the garden cleaning up around the rengarenga lilies that had been home to snails for some time. (If you don’t know these plants, they form low bushes of long fleshy leaves and a myriad of white flowers in spring and summer). As I pulled off shredded leaves that the snails…
read more »Keeping your electronic files safe
Recently I’ve been working with some small business owners who don’t have any back-up system for their electronic business transactions. I’m not talking about their financial transactions or stock inventories as they are usually captured in some formal system that is backed up off site or written manually by hand. It’s things like the contact…
read more »Paper or electronic filing – or both?
Do you store your business information in paper format or in electronic formats? Or both? Do you remember the logic behind your decision about what to file where and in want format? How do you decide what to do with incoming items? It can be very confusing when you start to think about a filing…
read more »Male secretaries – whatever next?
Organising what’s in your office, on your computer and working out what to do with all that email isn’t the most exciting part of your business. You’d much rather be working with your clients, earning money, networking with the aim of getting new clients and – well actually anything but filing papers or electronic files…
read more »Simply filing
Last week I wrote about the amount of time wasted in businesses because people can’t find bits of information quickly and easily. Following on from that, there are two important aspects to consider when it comes to organising your information. First you need to store it somewhere – and you need to be able to…
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