Organizing Your Space, Paper and Time

You may be fairly well organized and just want to fine tune your office systems.

Or you may need expert advice and assistance to eliminate unnecessary items, simplify processes and incorporate tools and systems to improve your effectiveness and reduce stress.

In either case, after assessing your current environment, organizing solutions are developed for space planning, paper management, clutter control and improving business processes.  Solutions are customized to work for you and your individual style.  

My goal is to identify solutions that address your specific challenges and to teach you how to apply organizational principles on your own.  I don’t force my own style or preferences on my clients; instead we work together to find systems that work with each person’s individual style.  I do, however, believe in keeping things simple.  The more complex and difficult the process, the less likely you’ll be to use it.  So I look for simple and easy strategies to help you stay organized.

The process begins with a brief phone conversation to assess your needs and begin to determine the cause and impact of the clutter and disorganization. We then either work side-by-side at your location, or we work together by phone, and webcam if you wish, to help you achieve results in the following areas.

Productivity Coaching

Coaching is facilitating an individual to improve their personal performance. It's assisting my client in identifying, prioritizing and implementing choices they want to make. It's helping them learn new skills for personal growth. The goals and agenda belong to the person. Coaching is not psychological counseling. I am not qualified to diagnose or treat anyone. The focus is on the future, not on the past.

Coaching is done by phone, typically 2-4 one hour calls per month.

Presentations and Training

I regularly present programs and training workshops on organizing techniques, time management practices and ways to simplify one’s life.

Contact me if you would like schedule a presentation or workshop for your group.

Clutter Support Teleclasses

This is an excellent way to learn organizing methods without the expense of on-site sessions. Participants work at their own pace, in their own environment.

Groups meet on a telephone conference call once a week for 6 weeks. Each meeting will cover a specific organizing challenge, i.e., how to manage daily mail, pay bills on time, plan projects, set personal, work, relationship and household goals, and more.  Then the participants set an action plan for the next week in order to apply their learning in their own environment.

Contact me for more details.

Chronic Disorganization and Collaborative Therapy

Frequently, clients are living with attention deficit disorder (AD/HD), anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive behaviors or other illnesses that contribute to chronic disorganization and limit them from achieving the quality of life they seek. Some people have difficulty with organization because of the amount of things they own, or the inability to make decisions about them.  Similarly, some people have difficulty at work maintaining their schedule, meeting deadlines and achieving their full potential at work.

The words I hear most frequently are, “I’m just so overwhelmed!”  Recognizing that it takes courage to allow someone to come into their environment, I try to provide a compassionate and non-judgmental approach to help you find a better way to manage your paper, your space and your time.

One element of service involves a holistic approach called Collaborative Therapy.  Along with an AD/HD Coach and selected medical professionals or healthcare providers we help clients become more effective in minimizing distractions, managing their time, getting to work on time, eliminating clutter, and increasing their efficiency and productivity at work.

• The Medical Professional’s or Healthcare Provider’s evaluation is critical to the accurate diagnosis of AD/HD and/or other related issues and existing conditions. Treatment includes various solution-focused and therapeutic techniques. But if the therapist does not specialize in these disorders, the client may not receive the equally important tactical tools necessary to manage his or her day-to-day life activities.
• The AD/HD Coach helps the client develop a more complete awareness of his/her attentional difficulties and builds structures to manage their internal confusion. Encouragement and recommendations are provided through coaching and life skills training to help the client achieve self-empowerment and positive changes.
• The Professional Organizer helps in identifying and prioritizing the client’s goals. Organizing and decluttering is a process that often challenges the emotional and physical connection to their possessions, but results in the ability to manage their lives and possessions more effectively than ever before.

Click here to see the role each person plays and the goals of the process.

Back to Top