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Barbara Boone - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Barbara Boone is a Professional Organizer specializing in paper management and file systems for small businesses. She helps small businesses create and sustain a productive work environment by setting up systems for their workspace, work flow design, paper and digital information, and project management. She has been organizing all her life in one context or another. As a teacher for 25 years with the Baltimore County Public School System, she organized curriculum, student files, ... [More]
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How to Use the File-Act-Toss System to Help Make Decisions About Paper Retention
[Business:Productivity]
There are only three things that you can do with paper. The File-Act-Toss System gives you step-by-step instructions on how to decide what to do with all the paper that comes into your office.
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Easy Ways to Create Paper and Electronic Files
[Business:Productivity]
This article gives you step by step directions to set up paper and electronic files. It tells you how to create main and sub categories as well as how to label and use color for folders. The electronic system described is a web-based document management system and can be used as a collaborative tool for projects.
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How to Break the Addiction to Post-it Notes
[Self-Improvement:Organizing]
This article shows a way to be more productive without using post-it notes which add visual clutter to your office. I have walked into many offices and seen post-it notes all over the place. Granted, they are a wonderful way to capture short pieces of information, but they add to visual clutter.
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What Gets in the Way of Getting Organized?
[Self-Improvement:Organizing]
This article focuses on three areas of self-assessment to determine why you are not getting organized. Those areas are technical errors, external realities, and psychological obstacles.
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How to Stay Organized
[Self-Improvement:Organizing]
Learn how to stay organized once you have committed yourself to the process of organizing either in your home or office. The following steps will help you maintain the organizing you have done.
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Staying Lean and Mean in This Economy - How to Save Time and Money by Getting Organized
[Business:Productivity]
The average employee today has about thirty-seven hours of unfinished work on his/her desk at any one time. The average American will spend one year searching through desk clutter for misplaced objects. It costs $120 in labor to track down a misplaced document or $250 in labor to recreate it. In a recession it is important to get organized to save time and money.
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Getting Rid of Mental Clutter
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management]
The words clutter and de-clutter weren't in my vocabulary six years ago. As with other things in our culture, TV often leads the way in what Americans focus on. The shows, "Mission Organization" and "Clean Sweep" have brought these two words into our living rooms and beyond.
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How to Create and Use a Tickler File
[Business:Productivity]
Having spent much of my career in education, I had never heard of a tickler file. It wasn't until I began organizing that I found out such a thing existed.
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How to Organize Your Office
[Self-Improvement:Organizing]
It is no secret that having an organized office can help you be more productive and feel less stressed. Since the focus of my business is office organizing, I hear lots of complaints from clients that say they feel so overwhelmed at organizing their offices. Here are a few tips to make that job less stressful.
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