May 13, 10:33 am
Pruning your paperwork pile
By Dan Bobinski
CEO, The Center for Workplace Excellence
At times my genetic coding for “paperwork organization” is greyed-out or “ghosted.” Actually, I have an enviably organized system … it’s just that I rarely take the time each day to engage the system.
Hence, by the end of the week I often find myself staring at a pile of papers that can’t all be thrown away.
Thankfully, some people have vibrant genetic coding for organization and I’ve been fortunate enough to learn from them. One such person is Rochelle Lierz DeLong of Perfect Order.
Lately, Rochelle has been posting some Paper Survival Tips on her blog, and here’s one I wanted to highlight and pass along: Tip #4: Pruning
In this post Rochelle says we can ask ourselves a few questions about that paper in our hands to help trim the amount of paper we keep around. They are:
What does it prove?
What is the reason for keeping it?
Is there a consequence if I don’t have it?
When was the last time I needed it?
Is this information still current?
Could I scan and keep electronically?
Can I find this info elsewhere?
Many more organizing tips can be found on the Perfect Order blog. Check it out.
Filed in Work, Management, Workplace, Corporate Culture
Thanks, Dan!
We do help pilers just like yourself every day. We encourage our Piler clients to embrace their piles, but limit them and have Piling systems. If you are Piler “genetically” (like you said), you will not become a Filer most likely. No different than you wanting to change your eye color.
I wanted to also give Lori Davies (lori@perfectorder.biz) proper credit–she wrote the blog posts. She has been teaching and coaching Paper Management skills individually with clients for years, and also hosts a workshop in several places around town.
We are so happy to be launching our new service line of Move Management. This is Senior Move Management Week, calling attention to the needed services of our industry (www.nasmm.org)
Thanks again for the post!
–Rochelle