January 2013 A Month of Blogging - Day 5

Organisational Skills

How many of you have vowed to become more organised this year? How many of you work from home and struggle to get organised at home?

Home or tele-working is still an expanding market in the UK, now 20% of the working population fall into this bracket.  But many people find it tough to separate the home and work life.  Whether you are an employee or running your own business from home there is one key skill that you must have – organisation.

Organisation is paramount to home working.  You need to have a dedicated work area where you work from and only work at.  This will allow you to separate your work and home life and not become consumed by one or the other.

This can be a separate room or a part of a room but it must be structured and organised for the tasks you perform.

Is your desk more this?

Or This?

Running a small business, that helps other businesses, has allowed me to realise how important it is to be productive at home and also to separate home and work time.  I help clients to get on top of the tasks that keep them from their core business activities.  This can be anything from general administration, marketing, database maintenance, diary maintenance, event management, sourcing suppliers or project management to name but a few.

I also show my clients how organisation and surroundings can affect their concentration and performance; this can include things as simple as the colour of a room – yellow to improve concentration, blue to improve performance.

Your office space whether at home or work is important but do you still find that you are disorganised and cant find anything or are always late? Well then you need to time manage and prioritise better to make more effective use of your time. This is what we will cover tomorrow!