Practical Learning

Comprehensive and Professional Training

The Advanced Professional Organizing program is designed to provide you with the skills and expertise necessary for a new career in professional organizing. You'll have the convenience of studying on your own time and at your own pace, while gaining professional, comprehensive, and practical learning experience.

Within this course, you'll learn about the processes, tools and techniques essential to succeeding as a professional organizer. You'll learn how to de-clutter and sort items before organizing each room in the home. You'll learn new skills such as drawing scale floorplans and creating activity spaces and workflow systems. Impress your clients with the variety of flexible and effective organizing solutions you can provide, all customized to meet their individual needs.

This in-depth course also includes a complete business series. This is an optional unit for students who are interested in launching their own professional organizing business upon course completion. You'll learn how to develop a business plan and how to set up your very own business. Through various exercises, you'll discover how to market your services, create contracts and pricing structures, and how to offer personal consultations. All your questions about how to work as a professional organizer will be answered and you'll gain the confidence you need to succeed.

Practical Assignments

The program includes a whole series of practical, hands-on assignments. These are designed to help you develop your professional skills and to prepare you for the work you'll be doing when you start your new, exciting career.

With each lesson topic, you'll be asked to complete several assignments. The goal of these assignments is to immediately reinforce the concepts you've learned and to help you develop your professional skills. Some of the assignments you'll be asked to complete include

• De-cluttering a room in your home using key organization principles
• Measuring a room in your home and creating a scale floorplan
• Evaluating and improving furniture layouts
• Assessing the value of belongings
• Identifying client profiles and adjusting your work style accordingly
• Writing effective ad copy
• Developing marketing messages

Your Personal Tutor

Your personal tutor—a professional organizer—will review your work and provide you with valuable feedback and advice. Available to you by telephone and by email, your tutor will act as your personal mentor and guide to the organizing industry. All of our tutors have years of professional organizing and teaching experience. They know what it takes to thrive in this dynamic field and their goal is to guide you towards success.

For more information on the AIOP&trade professional organizing course, please call 1-800-267-1829.