What
is your organizational personality?
I
attended the Asheville PMI Chapter meeting last night and found a new way of
looking at how I organize my work.
Paula
McGarrell, Chief Visionary Officer of You Time Solutions, made a very
entertaining and informative presentation to the Chapter. I was expecting
another presentation on understanding or developing your organization’s
culture, instead I ended up taking an assessment of my organizational preferences.
It turns out I am visual, process at the general level, like things on paper
and I am inner motivated.
I
was not overly surprised by the results but now I had permission have sticky
notes all over my office, draw figures on a whiteboard when I am thinking and
print out documents so I can read them. The idea is NOT to organize to be more
efficient but to organize in a way that makes me more efficient.
I
tend to feel guilty when I print out stuff I need to read and wonder what
people would think if they saw my desk. If I try to adopt someone else idea of
how things need to be organized I will likely lose things and will not integrate
information in a way that will be useful for me.
Something
to think about when you are setting up a project. How do you organize work
space to maximize the teams work efficiency, given that everyone will need work
organized in a way that facilitates efficiency? For me this means I need someone
on the team that organizes in more detail than is comfortable for me.
For
more information check out www.youtimessolutions.com
Russ
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