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Do you have current policies and procedures for your company?
Do you know where they are?
Do your employees know where they are?
Do they know what they say?
Do you have document retention policies?
Do you know what the means?
Do you know what the law in your jurisdiction says about retaining documents?
Do your employees know what the law in your jurisdiction says about retaining documents?
Do your employees know what your company mission is?
Do they share the vision?
Are your mission, vision and values reflected in your policies and procedures?

Office Organizing

Tags : Document Retention, Paper, Policies and Procedures, Where is Everything?

Where is Everything – Very Important Papers

Posted by Carolyn on

November 27, 2008

Do you know where your critical documents are?
Do you know what that means?
If your house were on fire, could you get them in less than 30 seconds?
Is there a copy off site safe?
Where is your passport, immigration papers, citizenship documents, birth certificate?
Where is your marriage certificate, divorce papers, name change confirmation?
If anything happend to you, could your Power of Attorney (Finance) find enough information in a short enough time to take care of your affairs the way you would want them handled?
Do you have a Power of Attorney for Finance?
Do you have a Power of Attorney for Health?
Do you have a Will?
Do you have a Living Will?
Do your executors know how to get copies of the Will?
Do you have guardians for your children in the event anything happens to you?

Home Organizing

Tags : Critical Documents, Paper, Where is Everything?

Where is Everything – Holiday Decorations?

Posted by Carolyn on

December 19, 2007

Can you remember where the holiday decorations are?
Do you have to search for them everytime you want to use them?
Are all your Christmas decorations stored in the same room?
Are they stored in the house or in the garage?
If they are stored in the garage, are they in waterproof boxes or bags?
Are they stored in containers?
Can you easily identify the containers from the other storage boxes/containers you store in the same place – like a red lid for example?
Are the containers labeled?
Are similar items stored together i.e. are the Christmas tree decorations together in one /boxcontainer?
Are the linens stored in dust proof containers or will you have to wash them again before you can use them?
Are the heavy containers stored low so that they can’t fall on you when you take them off a top shelf?

Holiday Organizing

Tags : celebrations, Christmas, Family, holiday decorations, Where is Everything?

Where is Everything – Policies?

Posted by Carolyn on

December 11, 2007

Are all your company policies in one room?
Are they all on one server?
Are they in one file cabinet/binder or e-folder?
Are they in one file?
Are they dated?
Are they current?
Do they share a similar format?

Do the employees know they exist?
Are thy accessible to all employees for reference?
Would anyone find them in a reasonable period of time?
Do they use them?
Could your employees direct a new employee to them for reference?

Does your company have an annual review date established for each policy?
Did you review them on/near that date?

Office Organizing

Tags : Document Retention, Paper, Policies, Where is Everything?

Where is Everything – Batteries?

Posted by Carolyn on

December 11, 2007

Are all your spare batteries the same room?
If they are in the same room, are they on the same shelf/cupboard/drawer?
If they are on the same shelf/cupboard/drawer, are they safely contained in a plastic or glass container?
If they are in containers, are they organized by size?
Are all the tips free of contact with other items i.e. batteries?
Are the containers labeled?
Are all your spent batteries taken out of their electronic gadget i.e. flashlight, radio, toy?
Are spent batteries safely organized in a plastic or glass receptacle – for discard at a waste transfer station?

Home Organizing

Tags : Where is Everything?

Where is Everything – To Do Lists?

Posted by Carolyn on

December 3, 2007

Are all your To Do lists in one room?
If they are in one room, are they all in one location in that room?
In that location, are they on one piece of paper, one file or in one file folder?
Are the similar or related items identified as relating to each other?
Are similar actions listed together?
Are they sorted by date identified, date due, level of importance, level of urgency, relevance to your objectives?
Do you know when the items have been accomplished?

Organizing Strategies

Tags : Lists, Time Management, Where is Everything?

Where is Everything – Spices?

Posted by Carolyn on

December 3, 2007

Are all your spices in the same room?
If they are in the same room, are they on the same shelf/cupboard/drawer?
If they are on the same shelf/cupboard/drawer, do you have more then one container of any one spice?
Are there any contianers with expired best before dates?
Are the containers labelled with the name of the spice they contain?
Are they sorted by alphabet or type or frequency of use?
Do you use them or are they for decoration?

Home Organizing

Tags : Kitchen, Spices, Where is Everything?

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