It’s much easier to keep your working place tidy than to clean it every day. It’s not a secret that when the workplace is cleaned up, the work becomes more enjoyable, more efficient and even safer.
So, for the beginning, let’s clean our workplace.
Workplace cleaning
Piles of papers and folders cover your entire table. It’s difficult to find the needed documents… sounds familiar?
- Stop doing what you are doing!
- Cleaning of any office starts with the papers and documents. Get rid of those that are not necessary. Do not leave them if you are sure you won’t need them.
- Make sure that the documents are places into the right folders.
- If you have hundreds of pieces of papers with numbers or other information, write all the information down on one piece of paper, or start using your notebook.
In order to bring your office in order take time to make sure that everything is under control.
- Make up a weekly plan on cleaning the office.
- At the end of the day you must go home leaving the office clean.
- All the papers should be filed or placed in special folders as soon as you finish working with them.
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- Make a list with the cleaning activities that should be done.
- The mail that is received should be classified: “Urgent/Important”, “Non-urgent/Not important”, “Intermediate”. “Intermediate” is a folder for the correspondence, priority of which can not be defined.
- File or put in special folders all the documents as soon as you finish working with them.
- Attach the priorities to the specific tasks that should be done.
- Throw away everything that you don’t need.
- Wash the cups and put all the pens and pencils in one place.
- Keep your workplace in order.
- Check your “Intermediate” folder regularly.
- Cross out the tasks from the to-do-list that have already been done.
- The to-do-list for the next week should be rewritten beforehand.
