Posts Tagged ‘Organization’
Company Design: How to Style Your Office to Impress
Your interest in this topic shows you care about your corporate image. You know that office design impacts how your business is perceived. Taking steps to polish your workplace is fun! Here are five ways to make your office shine. 1. Extend a Warm Welcome to Visitors When a client arrives at your building, the…
Read More5 Things to Avoid When Working from Home
The amount of people deciding to work from home is increasing each year. Although there are many amazing benefits to that type of work, you need to be aware of the disadvantages. One of the most difficult things for people working from home is that your productivity and focus naturally begins to decrease. After all,…
Read MoreLearn How to Get Organized
Say: I am an organizational genius!! The power of positive thought does work but if you said that your conscious mind would say: No you are not!! The first step in learning how to get organized is to make a decision to do so and start changing your thought processes around the topic using positive mantras that…
Read More5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Starting a Home-Based Business
Entrepreneurs who work from a home office are caught in a funny place between personal and professional responsibility. On one hand, you are at home—so you can see that there is housework to be done and errands to run and a leaky faucet to fix and appointments that need to be made during “business hours.”…
Read MoreStartup and Organization Costs
When starting a business, the owners are likely to incur two classes of costs that are not normally encountered in the ongoing operations of the business and should not be included as operating expenses. These are startup expenditures and organization costs. Each of these are specifically defined and receive special tax treatment. Startup expenditures are…
Read More3 Pillars of All Successful Organizations
I like ideas that are easy to remember. That is one key reason why I often use memory hooks—something that helps me remember more complicated ideas. One memory hook that is always popular is the 3-legged stool. When one leg is weak, uneven—or worse, missing—the stool loses its ability to perform effectively. The 3-legged stool…
Read MoreCreativity and Clutter: Friends or Enemies?
Does clutter affect creativity? I can give you quotes that say it does, and research that says it doesn’t. There’s lots of anecdotal evidence for either side. What do you think? My own experience goes either way. So I decided to look into this question on the web. Some Research Shows Creativity and Clutter Go…
Read MoreHow Long Should You Keep Your Records?
As tax time approaches, we’ll find ourselves gathering paperwork and typing in the numbers. Once sent, it’s likely we’ll stash them away amongst stacks of taxes from years and years ago. And some years, we look at that stack and think, it’s time to clean up. Before you busy yourself with the paper shredder, it’s…
Read MoreOrganized Options: How to Become a More Effective Employee
Back in 2008, America’s financial crisis left hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for work. It also forced many workers to reevaluate their worth in the workplace and what they had to offer. One of the most sobering thoughts is that anyone can lose their job at any time without warning. However, the best job…
Read More9 Smart Yet Simple Ways to Organize Your Office
Nothing can derail a workday faster than misplacing a critical document right before a big meeting. And here’s the sour cherry on top of that frustrating work moment: messy offices provoke more than short-term stresses. Studies find a disorganized office space can negatively impact both productivity and motivation. That’s partly because for most people, clutter makes it harder…
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