Organizing Your Work Space (Rev Edition), Student Edition

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Organizing Your Workspace (Revised Edition)

Course Specifications

Course Number: CCT–069_rev4.0

Course Length: Self-study or classroom training

Course Description

The 50-Minute Manager Series was designed to cover critical business and professional development topics in the shortest time possible. Our easy-to-read, easy-to-understand format can be used for self-study or classroom training, or even office training. With a wealth of hands-on exercises, the 50-Minute books keep 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.

Course Objective: The learning objectives for Organizing Your Workspace are listed below. They have been developed to guide you, the reader, to the core issues covered in this book.

The objectives of this book are:

  • To show how to manage paperwork
  • To provide principles of organization
  • To suggest where items should be kept

Course Content

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

Section 4: Your Work Area

The Credenza
Your Desk Drawers
Equipment
The File Drawers
Clearing the Top of Work Surfaces
How Are You Feeling?

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

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

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

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

 

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