MANAGING OFFICE RESOURCES II

ByS .A. Essel

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How do we manage our office resources efficiently?

setting a baseline - work out your current performance as a starting point for improvement

benchmarking - compare your performance against similar organizations

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How do we manage our office resources efficiently?

creating an action plan - once potential improvements are clear, you need to make an action plan to achieve them

setting targets and responsibilities - the targets should be achievable, with people responsible for meeting them

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How do we manage our office resources efficiently?

monitoring and reporting -measure your performance and set up reporting processes

reviewing actions and performance - this will enable you to learn lessons and continually improve

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The Modern Office

Office simplification to ensure higher productivity

Access to information within a stipulated time period

Effective utilization of office space through better layout

Energy-efficient, environmental sustainable work environment that maintains the ethos of ‘reduce’, ‘reuse’, and ‘recycle’.

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The Modern Office Benefits your organization gain for being

eco-conscious◦ It provides staff with a sense of

environmental pride and importance◦ Reduce paper consumption◦ Reduce energy consumption◦ Reduce water consumption◦ It makes good business-sense◦ It improves corporate image

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The Modern Office Waste minimization should include

observation of the five (5) R’s:◦ Rethink (do I really need to replace ?)◦ Refuse (I don’t need to replace)◦ Reduce (maybe I only need to replace

some)◦ Reuse (there might be someone that could

use) and then …◦ Recycle (now I will send it off to be

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CONCLUSIONDid you know? ◦ A moderate sized building of 10,000m2

typically consumes over 20,000 litres per day or more than 7 million litres per year –enough to supply 40 average homes.

THANK YOU.Contact:E: stepessel@gmail.comLinkedIn: Stephen Essel

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