Spring cleaning : 4 tips to declutter your work

I always feel that when my environment is clear, my thoughts are clearer too. So here are 4 quick tips to help you spring-clean your work environment.

1 – Recurring Compensation & Benefits pain points : create a solution. Design a process, draft a policy or simply create a standard reply email or a cheat sheet / FAQ that you can hand out to the people who are asking you a question that you hear on a regular basis.

2 – Improve your organisation : book a meeting room and  spend one day getting more organised. Clean your inbox and create rules in Outlook to manage your incoming flow of emails and organise your hard drive for fast access to your most important documents. Then go back to your desk and ruthlessly destroy the papers that clog your files and drawers. Scan the really useful ones if you don’t have soft copy and add them to your newly cleaned hard drive.

3 – Nice-to-haves : it’s the stuff that is always on your to-do list yet you never even started. Let go ! Clearly, these items are not that important for you now. Create a special file or folder for these ideas, and store them for when they will become a real priority.

4 – C&B Policies & Procedures : re-read them to ensure they reflect all the changes you’ve introduced recently. For example, new grades or job titles may be referenced in more places than just the job evaluation and grading policy.

Have you been throught these steps ? Congratulations ! Now, here is a bonus. It’s a simple way for you to capitalise on the good feeling you are experiencing right now. It’s easy : get feedback.

Ask colleagues, both in HR and the business, about what they would change or create, right now, as “quick wins” in the Compensation & Benefits programmes at your company. This will give you an idea where to look at to accomplish something positive with relatively low effort before you dive back into the big projects. And remember : 2 is a coincidence, 3 is a trend.

That’s it ! Four simple tips that help you feel more focused and therefore deliver faster on your Compensation projects. Sometimes, it’s worth investing a bit of time to tidy up as it increases your productivity. What are your tips for organising your work better ?

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