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Emma Bannister, Presentation Studio

Emma Bannister, Presentation Studio

Presentation Studio offers a complete presentation design service, from PowerPoint Templates and Design, and Training to Public Speaker coaching. T... Read more

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Function5 Web Design creates and manages an online presence for small businesses, from basic information websites through to feature rich shopping ... Read more

Gabriel Dukes, Shelcom Corporate Services

Gabriel Dukes, Shelcom Corporate Services

Shelcom Corporate Services help make the government registration process of starting up a company simple, fast and faultless for new business owners. 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

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young has been a passionate renovator and builder for nearly 20 years, and is the author of the book 'Home Building Made Easy - Five ... Read more

Uri Maimon, Nominal Accounting

Uri Maimon, Nominal Accounting

Nominal Accounting Software develops, sell and supports a micro business management software. 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

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill helps her clients achieve their goals by communicating as well as possible with the people who matter to them. This can be done by ... Read more

Karen Wickham, That’s Creative!

Karen Wickham, That’s Creative!

That's Creative! provides graphic and website design services to clients right across the world. Currently Ebook Design is their most popular servi... 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

Trish Fehon, OnlineInfluence.com.au

Trish Fehon, OnlineInfluence.com.au

Trish Fehon specialises in creating business websites for small to medium sized businesses that bring in fresh leads, new customers and make money. 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

Kalindi Chirmuley, Mulayam Products

Kalindi Chirmuley, Mulayam Products

Mulayam Products manufactures natural skin care products for all ages and all skin types. It helps to take care of the skin and enhance its beauty. Read more

Bev Wilkinson, Golden Days Images

Bev Wilkinson, Golden Days Images

Golden Days Images preserves old photos and places them on DVD and CD. They are also branching out into capturing small events involving filming an... 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

Maria Lesar, H.A.P.S. Business Solutions

Maria Lesar, H.A.P.S. Business Solutions

Maria is an experienced bookkeeper organising small businesses. She assists clients with setting up their new business ensuring they have applied ... Read more

Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.

Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.

Ann Nixon provides broad counselling and psychotherapy services to clients in the inner city and eastern suburbs of Sydney. 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

Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive

Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive

Altima Interactive provides web business consulting, web design and web development to help people grow their business online. Read more

Sarah Jenkins, SignaturePhoto Photography Courses

Sarah Jenkins, SignaturePhoto Photography Courses

Sarah Jenkins teaches half-day and 1-day photography courses in Sydney to beginners who have just bought their first DSLR camera as well as more in... Read more

Emma Bannister, Presentation Studio
Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design
Gabriel Dukes, Shelcom Corporate Services
Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp
Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy
Uri Maimon, Nominal Accounting
Nick Humphries, Akitso Web Design
Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy
Karen Wickham, That’s Creative!
Victoria Judge, Expert Agency
Trish Fehon, OnlineInfluence.com.au
Monika Mundell, Copywriter
Kalindi Chirmuley, Mulayam Products
Bev Wilkinson, Golden Days Images
Terri Mitchell, The Profit Frog
Maria Lesar, H.A.P.S. Business Solutions
Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.
Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo
Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive
Sarah Jenkins, SignaturePhoto Photography Courses
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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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