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Michael Vincent, Sports Partners

Michael Vincent, Sports Partners

Sports Partners is a free, fun site where people can find other people, clubs, or businesses for sports and hobbies. Read more

Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies

Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies

Enigma Technologies provides IT implementation, support and deployment to a wide range of clients, from home users to multi nationals. Read more

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Upclose & Virtual provides professional, cost effective, secretarial services for businesses and individuals throughout Australia to reduce the bur... Read more

Jan Bell, Bell’s Outsourcing Administration

Jan Bell, Bell’s Outsourcing Administration

Jan Bell is a virtual secretary who does administration and back office work from secretarial to bookkeeping. Read more

Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd

Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd

Paula Durrant is a tax accountant for small to medium businesses, and high income individuals. Read more

Maria Pantalone, Infinite Growth

Maria Pantalone, Infinite Growth

Infinite Growth works with individuals and businesses to improve their communication skills so that they can professionally present their products ... Read more

Troy Dean, Tonto Digital

Troy Dean, Tonto Digital

Tonto Digital helps small businesses use the internet, in all its glory, to attract new customers and grow their business. Read more

Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood

Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood

Ben Jones provides property maintenance services within Ringwood, Ringwood North and Warranwood. Read more

Bob Jones, an SEO Company

Bob Jones, an SEO Company

'an SEO Company' provides authentic SEO services for small businesses in Australia. Read more

Sean Sherlock, SAmedia Website Solutions

Sean Sherlock, SAmedia Website Solutions

From small start-ups to seasoned soloists, SAmedia Website Solutions designs websites that enhance online position and improve new leads and recurr... Read more

Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp

Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp

Roland Hanekroot is a small business coach in Sydney who works with small business owners who want to make a big shift in their business and turn i... Read more

Nick Humphries, Akitso Web Design

Nick Humphries, Akitso Web Design

Akitso Web Design is a web design company that sells fully-featured professional websites to small businesses. They make getting a website for your... Read more

Terri Mitchell, The Profit Frog

Terri Mitchell, The Profit Frog

The Profit Frog is The ASSET and CASH FLOW MAXIMISER for SMEs, searching for cash flow problems at their source, helping create cash flow budgets a... Read more

Richard Lin, iParaV Pty Ltd

Richard Lin, iParaV Pty Ltd

Richard Lin is an IT consultant and the boss of iParaV Pty Ltd, a business dealing with cloud business management. Read more

Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration

Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration

Pace Administration offers administrative services to micro and self-employed businesses in Adelaide specialising in services for self-employed psy... Read more

Simon Paxton

Simon Paxton

Simon Paxton helps people make their events exciting and memorable with performances of the mysteries of the mind. Read more

Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo

Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo

Peter Crocker, marketing head honcho, Sam Leader, editorial big cheese and Robert Gerrish, founder and general nuisance spill the beans. Read more

Monika Mundell, Copywriter

Monika Mundell, Copywriter

Monika Mundell, along with her husband John, provides a comprehensive suite of sizzling copywriting services to entrepreneurs, Internet marketers, ... Read more

Kate James, Total Balance

Kate James, Total Balance

Through her business coaching and life coaching, Kate James works with the concepts of mindfulness, creativity and authenticity to help people chan... Read more

Victoria Judge, Expert Agency

Victoria Judge, Expert Agency

Victoria Judge helps people build a successful business around their expertise, through a combination of one-on-one workshops and outsourced servic... Read more

Michael Vincent, Sports Partners
Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies
Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual
Jan Bell, Bell’s Outsourcing Administration
Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd
Maria Pantalone, Infinite Growth
Troy Dean, Tonto Digital
Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood
Bob Jones, an SEO Company
Sean Sherlock, SAmedia Website Solutions
Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp
Nick Humphries, Akitso Web Design
Terri Mitchell, The Profit Frog
Richard Lin, iParaV Pty Ltd
Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration
Simon Paxton
Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo
Monika Mundell, Copywriter
Kate James, Total Balance
Victoria Judge, Expert Agency
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Work smart | Office organisation

If you're tired of having a desk that's a mess and want to get your office in order, you're in the right place. Being organised can have a major impact on your business performance, efficiency and overall wellbeing.

Discover how to  declutter your desk, how to organise your office along with some sound advice on equipment in this top five tools piece.


How to stay organised

01 Nov 10 | Roz Howland

Once you’ve finally gotten yourself organised, here are tips on how to stay organised. Read more

Comments: 3

Take action to get organised

27 Sep 10 | Roz Howland

You’ll never achieve your business or personal goals if you don’t take action. Getting organised is no different. It’s time to roll your sleeves up and get organised. Read more

Comments: 1

Better organisation: Setting your organising priorities

23 Aug 10 | Roz Howland

If you try to organise your whole business, whole office or whole life all at once you’ll only end up feeling overwhelmed. Here I’ll help you prioritise your organising efforts for better organisation. Read more

Comments: 6

Why do you want to be more organised?

19 Jul 10 | Roz Howland

When it comes to getting organised, it’s important to understand your motivation for making changes to be more organised. Read more

Comments: 7

Organising tools: Six reasons to love your bin

14 Jun 10 | Roz Howland

The waste-paper bin is the most underrated of all organising tools. Do you love yours? Read more

Comments: 2

Get your home office organised and efficient

03 May 10 | Roz Howland

‘Organised’, ‘efficient’, and ‘home office’. In the same sentence? You’re kidding! Read more

Comments: 12

Do you have a comfortable work environment?

12 Apr 10 | Sam Leader

Our surroundings have a real effect on our motivation and productivity. Does your work environment make you smile? Here are some ideas to help keep you whistling while you work. Read more

Comments: 10

Five ways to be more organised at work

16 Feb 10 | Roz Howland

Wasting just ten minutes a day can set you back a whole working week by the end of the year. Here are five simple tips to be more organised at work by using your time and space more wisely. Read more

Comments: 10

Get organised: What’s your organising style?

05 Nov 09 | Roz Howland

Getting organised is not a ‘one size fits all’ solution. There are common fundamental principles, but individual differences must be taken into account. Here’s how to get organised by using the organising solution that will suit you best. Read more

Comments: 6

Top five organising tools for your office

06 Aug 09 | Roz Howland

It’s vital as soloists to set up organising tools that suit your situation and working style. They do not have to be expensive nor overly fancy to do an excellent job of getting you organised and keeping you that way. Here are five of my favourites. Read more

Comments: 11

Improving performance by clearing clutter

20 Apr 09 | Roz Howland

Your mental and physical clutter has a surprising impact on those around you, including clients, suppliers and family. Here's how to stop it getting the better of you. Read more

Comments: 14

Why you need an organised office

08 Jan 09 | Roz Howland

Did you realise that an organised office helps create a better quality of life? It puts you in control of your business and not the other way around. Here’s how having an organised office allows you to enjoy more time, space, money and energy. Read more

Comments: 8

Five tips for better office organisation

04 Dec 08 | Roz Howland

Often with more freedom, comes less structure. Because soloists have no corporate structure to fall back on, they need to create their own structure for their office organisation. Read more

Comments: 14

Decluttering: Take it away!

10 Nov 08 | Sam Leader

The FS gang attended a conference which attracted the finest minds working in the online industry. Naturally we were way out of our depth. Joking aside, one thing I took away has had a profound impact on how I work - the importance of decluttering. Read more

Comments: 27

Filing paperwork: What’s your style?

29 Jul 08 | Lissanne Oliver

If you spend more than three minutes trying to find any document, you’re wasting valuable time and impeding your productivity. Paper will never leave our lives completely so you need to work out which system for filing paperwork works for you. Read more

Comments: 10

Practical tips for a paperless office

17 Apr 08 | Heather Smith

Is a paperless office for a soloists a practical reality? In my article Small business record keeping: Dealing with the shoebox Marc Fraser from Melbourne raised the possibility of maintaining financial source documents electronically. Read more

Comments: 14

How NOT to be organised

25 Mar 08 | Lissanne Oliver

Working as a Professional Organiser, I’ve seen first hand the most common mistakes that undo our ability to be organised. There are many traps for young players. Read more

Comments: 12

How to organise your paperwork

08 Jan 08 | Lissanne Oliver

Are you struggling to manage the paper in your work day? Learn a super fast way to sort and organise your paperwork with the four Fs – finish it, forward it, file it or flick it. Read more

Comments: 8

In a mess? It’s time to declutter your desk!

04 Sep 07 | Lissanne Oliver

The way your desk is set up is crucial to your productivity, efficiency and wellbeing. How many times have you ‘lost’ things in the sea of paper around your keyboard or felt overwhelmed by the mess? It’s time to declutter your desk. Read more

Comments: 9

Is it time to organise your office and desk?

24 Sep 06 | Megan Tough

Is your office or desk packed with excess clutter? Do things need to be consolidated or trimmed down? If so, it's time to organise your office and desk to gain some power back. Read more

Comments: 3

 

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