Small Biz Tip: Organize Your Desk

Posted by Cheryl Sowa on Thursday, July 09, 2009

Tips from July 9, 2009

The Small Business tips today will be about getting rid of the clutter and cleaning your desk.

  1. Clean out your desk drawers & designate a purpose for each one. Example: supply, personal, and brand/logo drawers.
  2. Only keep supplies you use on a regular basis on your desk: several pens/pencils, stapler, post its, notepad, and calendar.
  3. Consider buying multifunctional equipment: all-in-one printer, scanner, copier & fax machine eliminate clutter & allow space.
  4. Keep quirky items to personalize your desk that don’t get in the way of necessities: pictures, posters, comics or mementos.

Daily Overview: A cluttered desk shows others you are not focused about your job. Get organized and get serious.

Here at ABC we post small business tips to our employee's Twitter account each day, Monday through Friday. This is a reposting of those tips.

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Cheryl Sowa

Cheryl Sowa is a Public Relations Coordinator for America’s Best Companies. She also writes daily for the Small Business Center. Cheryl graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and obtained Bachelor degrees in English and Communications. Contact Cheryl

Tags: clutter, clean, desk, supplies, equipment, personalize

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