How to be Organized at Work [WORK ORGANIZATION SKILLS YOU NEED] (2023)

Introduction

How to be Organized at Work [WORK ORGANIZATION SKILLS YOU NEED] / Are you swimming in clutter and desperate to learn how to be more organized at work? Over my 20+ years in business, I’ve learned some essential work organization skills that can truly help you achieve success in your career!

Learning how to stay organized at work goes hand in hand with knowing how to become more productive at work. When you know how to be more organized, you waste less time sifting through the clutter of your poor work organizational skills. This allows you to dedicate more time to real work tasks. That’s why staying organized at work is one of the keys to your career success.

So, watch this video to learn how to be more organized at work and together, we’ll increase your productivity!

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Are you swimming in paper, post-it, notes, clutter on your desk.

Are you trying to find the best techniques to get organized at work,? Well, in this video I'm going to share with you, tried and true techniques, I've used over, and over again that work.

If you stay tuned to the end of this video, I'm going to share with you some other techniques on how you can take business activities to the next level, because it's all about organization.

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Ii get asked all the time.

How do I stay so productive, and organized,? Well, I'm going to give you my top five techniques that I use to get organized at work.

So, let's get to it, organize tip number one, stop multitasking, what adriana, that's an organizational tip,! Actually, it is, it's probably the most important organizational tip that you can ever do.

Because, it's the number one mistake: most people in organizations make all the time.

If you're going to be organized, then you need to ensure that you put good quality work out.

There, multitasking is not organization, yet some people equate the two together.

It is proven that people cannot multitask.

It is a very small percentage who can, and when you multitask, you actually take away from the quality of work that you're doing, particularly when you're multitasking on activities that really have to use the brain, and the logic.

You just can't do it.

So in order to truly stay organized.

The first step is to stop the myth that multitasking works, it does not, and if you drop that, and understand to do one thing at a time.

Your organization is going to skyrocket.

Organize your brain, yes, a cluttered mind just like a cluttered desk leads to stress, which does not help you with organization.

So what are some things you can do to help organize your brain,? Well, first and foremost, is you really may want to try meditation,? It is proven scientifically how meditation can reduce stress.

It also allows you to be in the moment, so you don't get caught in that whirlwind of activity, which just increases stress and increases disorganization.

You also want to consider sleep, it's really important to get the right amount of sleep, I'm, not going to tell you how many hours to get, because everyone is different, I, know people who four hours are absolutely fine, and other people who need nine.

The point is, don't skimp out on sleep.

Another thing you really may want to consider too are taking breaks.

If you're going to stay organized within your work day, then you need to take mini breaks.

It's proven a five-minute break within every hour of an activity that you're doing, just brings you back to reality, allows to ground.

Yourself, gives you enough time.

So when you get back into it, you can stay focused, and ultimately stay organized with what you're doing, the benefit.

All of this is, when you have a stress-free mind, and your brain is organized.

It translates very easily to the things outside in front of you, the physicality stuff.

Organize your workspace.

Now some of you are probably going, finally.

She said it, yes, organize your workspace.

This is a given when it comes to organization, some of the techniques I want to give.

You, though, may be something you haven't.

Considered, I am very fortunate to work in many different types of industries, and organizations, and departments, and one of the things I find in the manufacturing sector that they do really well from an organization's standpoint that I'm going to now share with you, is the 360 method.

The 360 method is just this.

Think of everything that you touch, and things that you need.

Constantly, and daily, should be within a 360 circle.

If you constantly have to get up for something that is important to you, and that is critical to you doing your work and you're doing it constantly by getting up and out of your desk, that is disorganization.

You want to have everything at your fingertips, and stuff that you don't need, or don't use, get rid of it, or store it away.

R,Eally rethink about your space, yeah, clean up the desk, make sure you don't have clutter, but really think and strategize.

What do you need at your fingertips, and do the 360 method, another thing too, when it comes to physical organization, particularly with your desk, clear it off at the end of the day.

There is something really powerful when things are put away, and then, when you get to your desk, the very next day, that it's clean, it just gives you the same and proper mindset for you to be organized, all right.

We talked about physical organization.

Now we're going to talk about electronic organization, and I.

Want you to organize your email.

This is a second place that we live, all the time, if it's not physically being at work, wherever that may be, it's our inbox that we constantly live in, so don't allow it to get out of control.

Do not use it as a filing cabinet.

System, I see that too often, where people are storing stuff, get into the habit of touching your emails.

Once, absolutely once, get in the habit of looking at your emails at certain points.

In the day, again, this is going to be dependent upon your role, and you may need to go into your email more frequently than other people, but if you can actually stick to maybe, once, or twice, going to your email, that's huge, touch it once, clearly file things away in proper file.

Folders,! Don't leave them hanging inside your inbox.

That is a huge way just to ensure, and then delete, delete, delete, delete.

Some of you work in large organizations and you don't have a choice because you have a max size on your inbox.

That's actually a good thing that it's done for you, otherwise, you're just going to hoard stuff, don't hoard, clean it up, strip, it away, and just focus on what you need, try to have a minimum of 20 things in your inbox, max, at all times, because that means you're deleting, and getting rid of it, use your email, calendar, okay.

This is another electronic one from organization standpoint, and really important.

If you're going to remain organized, you need to make sure that your timing of your day is organized.

It's really hard to be organized as an individual.

If your calendar just has these big blocks, because you know what happens, you tend not to follow them, so then where's your structure, I, always like to share with people, look.

You have work to do, so you have to block out what I call power hours, so literally an hour in the day, and you do not budge on them.

If you can do those earlier in the day, because emergencies tend not to pop up, and don't block out your full schedule, give the time needed.

So when you can have meetings, so that people know when to book you, because if you're true to your calendar, people will start respecting that, because they know, if you just block out the full day, then people know, oh I'm, just going to try to negotiate, or send them the invite anyway, because I know they rearrange it anyhow.

Well, if you're going to remain organized, you yourself have to have time in the day that's specifically booked off, and you have to teach people how to use your calendar so that you can remain organized.

Otherwise it's disorganization, you're, constantly array, and who really knows what's going on, that doesn't help, it adds to stress, so really take a look at your calendar, and in the ideal world.

If you have the power to change how people use your calendar in your organization, I highly recommend you make this a priority, too many people don't do this right, and particularly now, uh, when a lot of people are working, virtually, understanding how people calendars are, are critical to organization success.

Now that you're on your way to being more organized at work.

It is now time to take this up a notch and to be more organized within your business activities.

Those activities can be initiatives, and projects, and if you're going to be more organized with those, you need to have an understanding as to why projects fail.

So I want you to go to the link, below, and grab this, because it is critical, why projects fail, and the cool thing is.

A lot of these concepts go outside of projects, into our business activity.

If you can control this, your organizational skills are going to skyrocket.

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If you have any organizational tips at work that work for you that I may not have shared here, please put them in the comments.

Below, I'd love to hear from you.

Until the next video, see you later.