Business Organization
Have you ever been at your office at home
or at work and felt as if you were untidier and unorganized as usual? When you are unorganized, you may feel like
you cannot follow through with your plans or ideas. I too understand this bad habit of not being
organized, because I have to fix this daily, until it is an automatic
priority. I am a student in my master’s
degree in Entertainment Business. I have
learned so many things in school and in life to help with planning, and I hope
to share with you some of my wisdom and insight. When you are un-organized the first thing to
think about is you and your business, if you stay this way things may fail and
become ruined for you and your business.
One of the things I would say is that you need to admit and know that
being unorganized is an issue and a negative trait to have in a business. Once you understand that you have an issue
then you usually can work on trying to correct the problem, or issue and get
some good results. Pre-planning is
always a great thing to do to help organize and plan. Find out who all you have as far as people
that will help you find resources that can help you get the things and tools
that you need. You need to know what is a priority to you what should be first,
second and last. Get a note pad and
gather your ideas sometimes seeing it down on paper is a better visual way of
being organized, get off of using the computer for a moment.
One of the newer subjects I am learning is
finance and in finance, you have to keep track of all of your assets. Our instructor gave us a great tool called
the Pro Forma to keep your numerical information for your business in tact,
which is a great and beneficial tool for your business. The Pro Forma talks about putting your
business ideas to numbers, and to help in the lessons of personal finance and
financial planning as stated by our instructor (Wolfe 2015) from the Pro Forma Template. If you know where all your money is going to, where your workers are and what other necessities you need you can visit
the sheet and keep notes to stay organized with the things that you need to do
or have done already. There is no right
or wrong way to be organized, but finding a way that is comfortable for you is
a good idea.
In conclusion, knowing how to plan things will help you stay on top of your business and you will have an opportunity to become very successful, if you can make your knowledge and organization work for you. In order for you to be different, unique and to distinguish yourself from other businesses, you have to stand out and people will notice your organization skills before they even learn about what you do, or anything about your business. Take time out to get your finances in order, your people in unity, and your notes and thoughts organized. I hope this blog was something that gave you an insight on something that you may have procrastinated about or left out of your planning stages. Have a productive day.
In conclusion, knowing how to plan things will help you stay on top of your business and you will have an opportunity to become very successful, if you can make your knowledge and organization work for you. In order for you to be different, unique and to distinguish yourself from other businesses, you have to stand out and people will notice your organization skills before they even learn about what you do, or anything about your business. Take time out to get your finances in order, your people in unity, and your notes and thoughts organized. I hope this blog was something that gave you an insight on something that you may have procrastinated about or left out of your planning stages. Have a productive day.
-Latoya Pritchard
References: Wolfe, David
(Retrieved on February 4, 2015)
Pro Forma Excel Template 2013 Full Sail
University
Marks, Philip J. Adelman &
Alan M. (Retrieved on February 4, 2015)
Entrepreneurial Finance, 5th
Edition.
Pearson Learning Solutions. VitalBook file.
