Office Manager Checklist

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1. Managing employment and human resources.
• Employment policy. It is of high importance to develop and implement an employment policy in your office. Such a policy is a blueprint for the way your company approaches the employment activity. As an office manager you should develop an employment policy and submit it to senior management for approval. You can cooperate with your office manager assistants to work on the policy development. The policy should include rules and action plans (such as office manager interviews and negotiations) that could help prevent later problems relative to employing or dismissing office staff.
• Training and development program. If the question of employment concerns hiring new employees, a training and development program needs to be applied to resolving the issues of insufficient qualities, skills and abilities of existing office staff. You should take care of such issues and develop a training program that could contribute to improving employee competencies and qualifications. Your office manager training program can be developed in cooperation with senior management of your company. In the program you can include your personal judgment concerning ways and methods of staff training. You can also request senior management for additional office manager resources (experts and trainers) who will help you develop and implement the program.
2. Fitting equipment and furniture requirements. Paperless office.
• Performance optimization. Both office equipment and furniture help employees do daily tasks. You should consider what office accessories contribute to higher employee performance most of all and then make sure these accessories are supplied and available. Shelves, desks, copying machines, computers, faxes, and telephones will be considered as your major office manager objectives when fitting equipment and furniture requirements.
• Office accessories supply. One of the most important office manager’s skills is to be able to communicate excellently. In the context of supplying office accessories, your “number one objective” is to negotiate with suppliers and vendors to obtain the best sales offer, the lowest price and the best quality. So when starting your next office manager day, pay attention to the line of communication with your vendors.
• Paperless office. If you consider establishing a paperless office, you can forget about paper organizers, notebooks, office diaries and other paper-based accessories, and then start looking for office management software that could help you organize paperless-based activities in your office. VIP Task Manager can be used as an office management software solution. It will help you carry out your office manager functions in the office environment.
3. Managing communications and interpersonal interactions.
• Managing inter- and intra-office communications. In many small businesses, the responsibility for establishing and treating communications between office staff members is one of the necessary office manager qualifications. Your company may also have the same vision on this point, so you need to know how to establish lines of inter- and intra-communications between employees of one or several offices. You can develop a formal communications plan that lets identify how and when to communicate with colleagues and management and what key pieces of information can be disseminated. The plan may include such office manager organization actions as weekly staff meetings, conferences, corporate broadcasting, emailing, and paper-based notifications. Your communications plan that everyone in the company can adhere to will improve office performance and ensure that information is disseminated clearly and quickly and according to security requirements.
• Conflict management. In any office including yours, conflicts are inevitable. Conflict resolution is an important duty among your other office manager duties. You should know how to handle conflicts properly and how to make your office life easier. The best way to prevent and resolve conflicts between employees is to develop a formal conflict management policy and rely on it each time when a conflict appears. The policy will help you and office staff members to be prepared for a wide variety of disagreements (such as equitable work distribution, office manager job descriptions, and pay rates). Your policy will allow you not to ignore any conflict. The conflict management policy will help everyone in your office to avoid and resolve disagreements in a professional manner.You can order complete (full) checklist or all complete (full) checklists in convenient MS Word and PDF printable format. BUY NOW!