Top 10 office items you should never throw away

Managing interns can be a tricky thing to navigate, but it doesn’t need to be.

Over the last few years we’ve worked and engaged with dozens of organisations who have a fully-fledged internship system, and a whole lot more who are making increased efforts to welcome interns into their organisation.

Did you know that you can take a look at Warp It’s best performers for thirteen different categories?

It’s true, go ahead, take a look, you can see who the best individual user is, or you can see which organisation has saved the most carbon - it’s all there for you to view.

This article is all about how we help universities around the globe reduce environmental impact and maximise the value of their surpus assets like furniture, equipment, stationery and even fleet!

Warp It’s founder, Daniel, was talking to Jonathan Latko from Temple University in Philadelphia about how he made a business case for the development of surplus asset reuse in the university.

One of the most striking things he shared was how he would look at an existing process and do a time-motion study on it.

Warp It’s founder Daniel O’Connor is here to talk from personal experience, through interesting anecdotes, about how you can provide sensible logic to your boss or director to get them interested in reuse. Daniel has recruited most of the UK’s universities, councils and regional NHS facilities onto our furniture reuse software, so you can trust that he has a lot of experience working with senior management and decision makers.

It is vital to keep your members up to date with the progress you are making in your reuse project.

Keeping up with your users might seem like a tough task, but with all of the technology we have available to us now, making articles and sending them out via social media , newsletters, intranet or more traditional means is a pretty straightforward process.

Why do we publish our customer happiness ratings publicly?

You are more likey to succeed and work effectively if you set a goal. Just by setting your goal, writing it down, weird things happen that come into play and make you more likely to achieve it.

Right at the very start of a new project, you have to define a goal for yourself and the project. Where do you want the project to be in 6, 12 or 18 months time?

You need to be able to look ahead and create that vision. In this blog post we talk about the benefits of setting a goal for your project. As usual we use a reuse project as an example but it could be anything. 

At the end you can download our super simple guide " How to set goals" which will help your in your work and home life.

This 7 step guide to setting goals really helped me and it will help you achieve.