Small Business Today Magazine OCT 2015 TEXAS SECURITY SHREDDING | Page 18

EDITORIAL FEATURE

Getting Organized:

You Don’t Work in a Vacuum                   
BY Holly Uverity CPO®, Office Organizers

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ften people say they’re comfortable with
their clutter; they know where everything
is and their lack of organization and time
management skills don’t affect anyone
else. Those people are wrong. No one may ever
tell them but their poor planning absolutely impacts everyone they work with – or for.
If you are one of those people, your disorganization affects your co-workers if you:

Have a messy desk and/or have no filing system

If your desk is messy and/or you have no system
for keeping track of your files, your co-workers
will have to wait for information from you. Making people wait while you look for something
wastes their time and impacts their workday.

Don’t have a clear agenda when making a call

Making a rambling call or leaving a rambling
message forces the recipient to listen to the
message more than once, interrupt you to ask
you to get to the point or bite his/her tongue
and let you ramble – all the while being irritated. None