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Carefully tested tools are a prerequisite for doing a good job, no matter what profession you have. It applies to the carpenter, the lawyer, the IT consultant and it is also true for the struktör. Today, Done! presents the struktör's eight best tools (which you can use even if your title is something else).

Do you find it hard to compile tasks that were completed in a project or an assignment with the purpose of writing a report or create an invoice from the hours you spend on the project? Today, Done! presents five simple tips on how to make this process easy as pie.

Have you ever experienced losing the receipts you got during a business trip that you had to account for, that the notes you took during the conference just disappeared, or perhaps the business cards you received at the mingle party apparently were nowhere to be found? Today, Done! presents what you need to get to never have to experience that again.

When I've got many meetings in a day, I risk forgetting what we were talking about and what the next step was if I don't make a few brief notes right after the meeting and write them down as tasks in my to-do-list. But, since my time is in scarce supply, processing of the notes mustn't be time-consuming. Today, 'Done!' is about how to swiftly collect the essence of a meeting in order to make quick progress forward.

Even if you adopted a well thought-out, systematic approach for gathering information around everything you have to do and all the material you need, there is a risk that you lose both the overview and control if your work rate is hectic. Today, 'Done!' is about how you can get fully back in control even when you are incredibly busy.

Aren?t we quite a few who have decided to start making to-do-lists, got it going and after a while noticed that all the things we don?t have time to do are what?s on the list since we are actually doing the things we are trying to remember? Today, 'Done!' presents a little over ten tips to how to be successful with a to-do-list that works in the long run.

How much of your business would be visible to the naked eye if we could freeze time just for a moment? Are the things you do documented in any way, or do a few key people ?just know it?. Today, Done! presents seven reasons why visualizing your company through flowcharts is so useful.

What do you do with all that good-to-have material, your reference material, the things you need from time to time that are so simple to put in piles so it won?t get lost, and which you then never find when you need them the most, just because they are somewhere at the bottom of the piles? Today, Done! presents a way to swiftly store such documents so that they are easily retrieved later, whenever you want to.

Do you ever experience from time to time that you are just completing task after task, and everything is spinning so fast that you can?t grasp what?s going on, what week it is and what?s coming up next month? Today, Done! presents the remedy.

It is easy to feel that you are the victim of dire circumstances when it comes to the constant flow of mail into your inbox, but it is possible to be more efficient by working structured even with this. Today, Done! presents five concrete ways in which you can work more efficiently with your incoming mail.

Have you also from time to time experienced that the things just waiting to be done are in a real mess and you need to get a good overview to sort out what needs to be prioritized and what are the next steps? Today, 'Done!' presents a method with which to reach clarity, get things into gear and once again, be up to speed.

Many suffer from overcrowded inboxes and getting more e-mails than they can handle. Having a smart way of dealing with incoming mail once it has arrived is one thing, but we can also influence how efficiently we utilize e-mailing as a whole through how we compose the e-mails we send others. Today, 'Done!' presents six tips to how you can help others help you make your e-mailing more efficient.

We can?t do everything we need to do everywhere or anywhere. For some things we need a computer, for others access to a phone and some things can only be done in the office. We gain concentration if we at each point in time only need to care about the tasks that are available to work on where we are at the moment. Today, 'Done!' presents how to quickly focus on what you can do right here, right now.

Any business can be described as consisting of a bunch of processes. This makes it possible to improve it in a practical, systematic and structured way. Today, Done! presents how you can improve one of your processes as easy as pie.

The purpose of the action plan is to change and transform the business through its processes in the intention of achieving our goals. Perhaps this sounds overly bureaucratic, but it is possible to make it really simple. Today, 'Done!' presents just how simple an action plan could be.

The vision describes the envisioned, future situation we want to achieve in the company. The more senses the vision appeals to, the more efficiently it can inspire us, as leaders and as co-workers. Today, 'Done!' presents six ideas on how to formulate and communicate the vision.

Do you want to improve your personal structure at work, but don't know where to start? Maybe you are doubtful as to whether it is even possible to change, and you might even fear that your particular situation is a hopeless case. Do not despair. Today, 'Done!' presents three simple steps towards a better personal structure.

When you are arranging your system for documents, to-do-lists, referencematerial and other materials, it is normal to ask yourself how it should be done, for instance, how should I store the documents I might need some day? But, it's not the format that does it. Today, 'Done!' is about what really matters.

Have you ever delegated an task to someone or have someone promise that they would get back to you with some sort of information you need, forgot that you did, and then, at the very last minute, discover that you haven't yet received the material you desperately need right now? Today, Done! is about what to do to never have to experience that ever again.

We can be very efficient as individuals, but to be successful in making the company evolve into what we want it to become, we need to connect our structured and productive working habits with the overall structure of the company. Today, Done! presents five conceptual relationships which need to be in resonance with each other.