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Spring Cleaning

Office Dynamics

P urge files; clean up computer files. For example, we might have Magnificent Monday, Take to the Top Tuesday, Wonderful Wednesday. Copyright © 2010. Please respect our copyright. I thought I’d keep this week’s motivator on the lighter side. Here are a few ideas. S pruce up your work area with fresh flowers.

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Spring Cleaning

Office Dynamics

P urge files; clean up computer files. For example, we might have Magnificent Monday, Take to the Top Tuesday, Wonderful Wednesday. Copyright © 2010. Please respect our copyright. I thought I’d keep this week’s motivator on the lighter side. Here are a few ideas. S pruce up your work area with fresh flowers.

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3 Steps Toward a Paperless Office

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Always back up your files electronically. Normally, folks in an office would back up their essential files by photocopying it and filing it away in an aptly named folder, then placing it into a filing cabinet for archival purposes. Visit the original article at [link].

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Be Careful What You Keep On Your Work Computer

Administrative Arts

I had been tasked with finding a certain file containing a memo that no one could remember who wrote. It required that I search everyone’s personal network files as well as files on everyone’s computers. Well, I found some very interesting things on computers and personal network files. So, journaling is good.

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5 Ways to Free Up Room on Your Brain's Hard Drive

Ian's Messy Desk

Delete unnecessary files: With a computer, you can free up space by sending unnecessary files to the trash. How about all those “junk files” on your mental hard drive? Download: Many “must keep” files that don’t need to reside on your hard drive can be downloaded onto a disk. Delegate whenever you can.

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Start the New Year off with a New Focus on Your Personal Affairs.

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Here are a few tips to get started: Set up a filing system to store and manage your paperwork Your paperwork likely consists of three types of paper:  1) stuff you need to take action on 2) stuff you are saving for reference and 3) stuff that you should have tossed a long time ago, but haven't.    Avoid backlog. 

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Boost Productivity by Picking the Best To-do List for You

Stephanie LH Calahan

For example, write all tasks related to recruitment on blue cards and items related to resident evaluations on red cards. For example, after receiving an e-mail request, don’t let it sit in your in-box until you remember or miss the deadline. “At the beginning of the day, put your cards in order, with the most important item on top.

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