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The purpose of a Productive Environment Day™ is to give your employees the time, the permission and resources to effectively eliminate anything from their office which can be tossed, recycled, shredded or relocated – and to eliminate the necessity of keeping/and or moving anything that is not necessary to the organization. In May of 2010, a mid-west company with 25 employees eliminated 3.5 tons.

Lisa Guzzo, Certified Productive Environment Specialist ™ (CPES), will provide a checklist of the 18 essential ingredients for a successful event, promotional materials to educate employees about the upcoming opportunity and assist them during the event.

On event day, Lisa will the present a 45 minute The Art of Wastebasketry® “Sometimes It Takes An Expert to Take Out the Trash” seminar.  This will incorporate your retention guidelines, as well as, tips and tools for determining what to keep and what can be let go.

 What you gain

1. Reduce need for space and equipment for storage of unused information; 
2. Time for employees to implement the records retention policies;
3. Identification of record management issues which should be addressed for legal reasons;
4. Creates a collaborative environment so employees are more invested in the organizations success
5. Increases the ability for employees to find what they need, when they need it;
6. Reduced moving costs if you are moving
7. Helps eliminate information hoarders, those who don't share information as a job security strategy;
8. Identify problem areas in the document flow process;

For more information Email lisa@workingspaceunltd.com or call 949 836-3724

Building and sustaining your business requires spending 80% of your time on focused activities that drives revenue and moves your business forward.  Can you honestly say you are spending at least 6.5 hours of an 8 hour day on focused activities?

Spend a moment to take an honest look at your business, as it is today, by answering the following questions with a Yes or No.

• Do you have a system for managing incoming paper work, messages and email?
• Do you have an efficient contact management system?
• Can you find paper documents or electronic data when you need it in 10 seconds? 
• Do you have a system for tracking date sensitive items?
• Do you have a system for managing projects that works for you and everyone else?
• Do you have a centrally understood file system?
• If you or a team member suddenly became ill and couldn’t work, could someone easily step in and take over?

If you answered NO to any of the questions then you aren’t leveraging your time.  However, you have uncovered some areas in your business that needs attention. 

The good news is that our Certified Productive Environment Specialist’s have the knowledge, tools and resources to help your leverage your time, increase your productivity and tackle the number one challenge of businesses today…PAPER.

If you are serious about building a profitable sustainable business, then I invite you to schedule a complimentary 30 minute consultation.  To arrange a time please visit our website at  www.workingspaceunltd.com and complete form in the contact us section.  We look forward to “Bringing You Productive Peace”.

Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates that workers spend nearly 50 percent of their time looking for information, including paper documents. The average document is copied 19 times-a drain on paper, ink and supplies.

Sullivan, Mark. Advanced Processing & Imaging want to make fans out of its records customers. The Commercial Appeal, 01/04/2010
Quotation by/from PriceWaterhouseCoopers
www.commercialappeal.com

I'm always on the look out for products and services that can make my clients more productive. I recently came across Bring TIM, a product designed to make meetings more efficient. There are all kinds of proven strategies to run meetings more efficiently. For instance, you could hold a standing meeting, start meetings at an off time like 10:10, ban cell phones and PDA's, use an agenda or conduct meetings before or after working hours. But this new tool brings technology to the world of time management.

This portable time-management cost calculator and clock brings real-time focus to how much a meetings actually costs.  Simply input the number of attendees and the average salary and press start. For example, the cost of a one hour meeting with 10 team members with an average hourly salary of $100 is $1,000.

This meeting essential brings focus to critical matters and improves productivity.  For more information visit www.bringtim.com.

Have you ever found yourself saying " I always wanted to do that but..." "I have a great idea for a business but.." "I'd like to change my career but..." You get the point.

Did you truly decide or did you let fear call the shots?  Fear is a story your mind plays, like a tape recorder playing an old message. Fear has little, if anything, at all to do with reality.

Many people have a fear of flying. But they will get into a car everyday without thinking twice abut the possibility they could be involved in an accident. The reality is that the chances of you dying in a plane crash is 1 in 10,000,000. However, the chance of you dying in an auto accident in about 1 in 6,000.

Look for the latest tips and stategies to keep you productive and give you productive peace.