Whiteboards Can Increase Your Daily Productivity?
Whiteboards are most often associated with an educational
setting or maybe even with boring sales seminars. You rarely
associate them with anything else. It's amazing how very few
entrepreneurs have a whiteboard in use at their home office.
It's an essential business tool!
Why would a business person working from home need a whiteboard?
That's easy to answer with one single word - organization. A
whiteboard gives you the single best way you can have to stay
organized in a hectic world.
You all know how it goes. You get a phone call or have a sudden
brainstorm of ideas. The idea or note gets scribbled on a piece
of paper and left on your desk. It may or may not get actioned
by you. Later in the day you have another idea which also gets
scribbled on a scrap of paper and left on top of your other
notes on the desk. Tasks, jobs, callbacks and customers get
lost, missed and forgotten.
Now switch things around. If you had a whiteboard in your office
the next idea or appointment you have gets put up there instead.
No matter where you sit in your office you can see it. You're
constantly reminded of it. You have to do something about it.
One thing is certain you most certainly won't forget it.
You can easily section off your whiteboard into two columns and
a single header row. The header row can contain one or two long
term goals so you're constantly reminded of where your business
is going and why you're working so hard. Column one then
contains urgent appointments or tasks. Column 2 contains ideas
for new products, service or promotions. The act of actually
standing up and writing on the whiteboard stimulates even more
ideas so your biggest problem might be running out of space.
Of course if you're going to to buy a whiteboard you'll need to
get some accessories like whiteboard markers, a whiteboard
duster and also some cleaner for the board itself. The expense
involved is considerably less than you might imagine with some
large whiteboards on sale from office suppliers for as little as
$40.
Another alternative is to use whiteboard paint on a blank wall
space in your office at home. This amazing paint converts any
flat, dry surface into an instant whiteboard of any size you
want. There's a certain childish freedom to being able to
scribble on walls that many of us "grown ups" can appreciate.
So if you're tired of missing appointments and losing important
notes then invest in a small whiteboard. You'll be amazed at how
much easier it makes your working life.