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Effective Time Management Strategies

important documents or place them where they can
be re-filed, the entire office’s productivity will suffer.
When was the last time you cleaned your virtual
desktop? Most computer desktops are cluttered
with icons and folders within folders and file names
with variations.

When an employee is absent, production can come
to a halt for the lack of a password. Keep an
updated master list of passwords in a safe but
accessible location.

Process Organization
Another area in which an organization can save
time is processing mail. Mail should be opened as
soon as it arrives and sorted into piles: Accounts
Payable, Checks to be Deposited, and Advertising.
Deal with one pile at a time and only deal with each
piece of mail once. If you allow these piles to pile
up, you can easily miss something important while
you’re rushing through attempting to get caught up.
Remember that you do not need to keep every
piece of paper that crosses your desk. The same
information is often available elsewhere. For
example, bank records are now available online as
are magazine articles.

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