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Employees are overwhelmed by their lack of organizational skills, growing piles of paperwork and email overload. Sort It Out is a consulting company that can help. We team up with businesses to educate, motivate, and challenge employees to take a risk by stepping out of old, inefficient ways of working and to move forward - towards more efficient and productive ways.

We specialize in:

Motivating and training organizations to maximize results.

Consulting with executives to ascertain areas of concern
and develop strategies for success.

Teaming up with employees to listen to their needs, ask
questions, challenge their old ways of working and teaching
new organizational skills.

Saving companies time, energy, and money, by educating
new hires in effective organizational skills.

12/11/2009

Managing Your Time the Pomodoro Way

It's crunch time. Only two weeks left until Christmas and three weeks until the end of 2009. Our projects are looming and we feel overwhelmed. This is the perfect opportunity to practice the Pomodoro Technique, a simple system that helps you change the way you view time. In a nutshell, this concept allows you to break down your time into manageable chunks and focus on just one task at a time. After an extended interval of focus, you get a short period of time off for good behavior.
Here's a brief breakdown of this technique:
1. Choose a task to be accomplished
2. Set a timer to 25 minutes
3. Work on the task until the timer rings, then put a check on your sheet of paper
4. Take a short break (5 minutes is OK)
5. Every 4th 25 minute period, take a longer break

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Claire has been sharpening her interpersonal skills for many years. Prior to establishing Sort It Out, Claire had over 10 years of experience working as a sales representative, in the pharmaceutical industry. Her responsibilities included project management, goal setting, time management, product training, communication skills development, and strategic planning.

Claire founded and served on the board of directors with NAPO – St. Louis. She is certified in both the Clear & SIMPLE and FreedomFiler systems. She presently serves as the Marketing Chair for the St. Louis Affiliate of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association. Claire is also involved with the American Club Association and Women Incorporated Master Mind Group.Claire has been featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Suburban Journal. She has been interviewed on the three St. Louis morning television news shows, Channel 2, 4 and 5, as well as KMOX radio and appears monthly on Great Day St. Louis.

Claire Keeling founded Sort It Out, Inc. in 2004 in response to a growing demand for organization and efficiency expertise in the corporate world. “Some people are born with an ability to maintain order and categorize and prioritize their tasks. It is my goal to fill a gap in people’s professional tool kit and provide training and coaching to support people as they learn how to maximize how they use their time, energy, and money”, quotes Keeling.