How to Get Organized to Help with Productivity

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast’ - your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader talks about how we can get a little bit more organized at work as well as in our personal lives to help us to be more productive and efficient.

Episode Highlights: 

·      It’s important to make sure you establish a routine that you think can benefit you as you begin your day go through your day and then close down your day.

·      Having a central to-do list is one of the things that she finds tremendously helpful. Organizing your to-do list will vary depending on your priorities and how you need to organize them, but you want to write them down.

·      Setting-up your workspace and making it a workable workspace, whether it is an office or at home, you want to make sure you feel comfortable in your workspace.

·      Avoid not giving yourself any free time, working all day and night, when you're really, really trying to be productive can actually have the exact opposite impact.

·      There are few apps that are available across different online platforms and can be very easily used in your computer or phone. These apps really help Sheila in increasing her productivity.

·      If you are looking for a tool for a little bit of types of things that are along the lines, project management, check out Trello.

3 Key Points:

1.     Organizing and seeing your pending tasks can help you by centralizing what it is you need to do, and then it gives you one place to be able to see what's on the radar, be able to move things around and look at priorities and shuffle as you need to.

2.     Try cleaning out your inbox and knowing what's most urgent and what's most important, potentially, by organizing your emails into categories.

3.     Sheila shares some of the online apps like Todoist, Evernote, Trello, Toggl and Google Calendar that she thinks are particularly valuable in increasing the productivity and can be very easily used in your computer or phone.

Tweetable Quotes:

·      “Every day, we can end-up feeling like our tasks just keep increasing. We might feel like time is simply slipping away from us or slipping through our hands.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

·      “If you are organized in a way where's a place for everything you need, you will be much more productive.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

·      “Put away the unnecessary things, and only take them out when you need them.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

·      “If you are not using Evernote you are missing out.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

Resources Mentioned:

·       Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website         Podcast

·      Links to Apps: Todoist     Evernote    Trello Toggl Google Calendar