Whether you are running a business or are just part of an organisation, you have to be as organised as possible in your job. One of the best ways to be organised at work, it’s by identifying what makes you productive. There is a reason that management always offers employees perks, and it is to keep them motivated to get their work done. Nobody works for free, they give their time, their money, their energy – it takes a lot to be able to keep people interested in and motivated in a job that they are doing when they’re only there so they can live. Being organised at work it’s not the easiest thing to do, especially if you’re not an organised person. Once you manage to get organised in your working life, this will filter down into the rest of your life.
There is no real one size fits all approach to your organisation. There are so many articles that you can take on board when it comes to organising your desk, and you can read more about how to organise your technologies efficiently. When it comes down to it, organisation comes down to your will. You have to want to remain organised so that you can concentrate and focus on what you’re doing. We know it’s not going to take just one tip to help, so we put together several tips to help you to stay organised at work.
- Make time to be organised. If you want to be organised while you are working, you have to put it into your calendar full time. You have to book a meeting with yourself and clear the time every single week to make sure that you can clear down your desk, organize your files and write a list for the following week just to feel like you’re on top of it. Think about what you could be doing differently and how you can be more efficient to get your work done, and make sure that your personal processes are as refined as possible so that your organisation is not hindered.
- Put in time for admin. One of the hardest parts about working for yourself – or even working in an organisation – is that you’re going to have paperwork to do. You have to put in the time for your paperwork, which means again, booking time for yourself. Pick a day of the week when you’ll get all of your report work and admin done and make it clear to co-workers that this is not the day for phone calls and emails. You need to be able to concentrate on what you’re doing, and putting in the time is going to help you to manage that.
- Utilise your calendar. You can use your calendar to set up reminders and forward schedule anything that you have to be aware of for months or even years ahead. You can set alerts to remind you of specific dates that are coming and copy the biggest project milestones into your calendar. This will keep you informed every step of the way.
- List, list, list! If you want to organise your daily tasks at work, you need to get comfortable with making lists – lots and lots of lists. There is nothing better than a to-do list except for the feeling of taking off all of the things that you put onto that list. Your list should be there for you for the rest of the week, and then you should have a second list for the month.
- Book a year’s worth of meetings. Booking in your meetings for the rest of the year is actually one of the most practical and smart ways you can stay organised. If you want to ensure that your whole team is aware of what’s happening, then booking in all your meetings now is an intelligent thing to do.
- Check on your resources. Have you got absolutely everything that you need to make sure that your projects are successful? What resources do you need to secure to make sure that they do remain successful and consistently so? You can only find this out when you review the resources that you’ve got Hannah for sure but they are correct for your business. Even the things you have on your desk and around you as you work need to be relevant for what you’re doing. Your ability to be organised is based on the resources that you have to make sure that you can do that. Make sure that you are well supported and you will find success.
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