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Do you spend time each day standing waiting while your tea or coffee brews? Is your desk covered with papers you don’t need today? Do you spend time each day sitting waiting for your computer to respond or for a document to print? Are your emails building up in your in box? If you answered…
read more »7 habits of highly organised office workers
I often walk past people’s desks that are cluttered with paper, food, empty coffee cups etc and wonder how they manage to work in such a mess. I’ve also seen what the desks of high achievers look like when they’re busy. I’ve noted some of their habits and share them with you here. Start the…
read more »Feral paper in your office
Has paper gone feral in your office? You know what I mean, piles of papers on your desk, more on the floor, paper everywhere in fact. It used to be organised and filed once, but then you got busy. Now you’ve forgotten how you used to organise your paper files and you’ve started storing some…
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 »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…
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