Are you struggling to make sense of the disorganized chaos that is your workspace?
Do you want more effective systems for keeping yourself and your executive organized?
Do you want to better understand your organizational style?
If you answered, “yes” to these questions, we have an exciting announcement for you!
Julie Perrine, founder of All Things Admin, has released her second book, The Organized Admin!
This new book includes advice, information, and resources on developing simple organization systems that promote administrative career success. Readers will discover how to organize everything from their workspace to meetings and events, and they’ll gain a better understanding of their organization style preferences for space and time.
If you would like to learn more about your organization style, visit www.TheOrganizedAdmin.com to access the Time & Space Style Inventory (TSSI) assessment.
This book was very helpful in helping my ADHD brain get more organized systems in place. However, Having to search through the author's website for EVERY example she referred to in the book was beyond frustrating. Wish they were.included as images within the pages or at the back of the book.
I am honestly not sure if I have rated this book a little too low or not. Preparing for leading and regrouping some of our office administration. Almost bought this book for them but got a different one that focused more on leadership. Definitely the right call. I kept this one for myself as I can always be more organized. However, I felt like a lot of it was really outdated or just for someone dealing with such extreme disorganization that it wasn’t as helpful as I would’ve liked for it to have been. I have not yet gone online to look at her forms and the tools that she recommends. I think it’s very wise that she puts most of that online as it is always and ever-changing. So it may be a better resource for someone truly looking for those types of things for practical office organization than I was. I was looking at this more for my home organization and basic calendar that I was the office. I am not an office admin, so a lot of this just wasn’t what I was looking for. The last couple of chapters, for example, are entirely on keeping your résumé, up-to-date and job-hunting.
This is written for the USA-based admin professional, that said there were lots of useful tips for any admin role. I do wish examples had been included of forms, templates etc. that Julie uses, as well as referring readers to her website for the latest versions. Does include a Recommended Reading list, covering admin, personality types, organisational tips & productivity etc. Worth the read, the emphasis is very much on you doing the work of getting yourself organised., continuous learning/improvement. However it's not a one-stop admin resource by any means.
I have this a reading of 5 because this has many ideas on planning you career, managing changes that can occur unexpectedly in your career, trading charge of your career and becoming more proactive with your career plans. I recommend this book to the seasoned and novice alike.