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Making New Year’s Resolutions is something millions of us around the world do every year. Joining the gym…spending more time with the family…cutting out biscuits…all with the ever popular health and lifestyle theme. What about improving your productivity in the workplace? 

Wondering how to stop procrastination? Many people are. While we may tackle certain projects with gusto, some tasks leave us feeling paralysed with inertia, watching our deadline approach (or pass us by) as we wonder how to force ourselves to move forward. Fear not! The next time you find yourself battling procrastination, you will have more tools on your side. … Read More

A Conversation with Brain Expert John J. Medina and Diane Coutu (Harvard Business Review) You can hardly escape reading about neuroscience in the press these days, and it’s easy to see why the topic fascinates managers. Intellectual capital, after all, is what business is all about in the knowledge economy. Yet as with any new field of knowledge, there’s a … Read More

Most people are at peak efficiency in the morning. You can multiply the effect of this fact by providing a ‘quiet hour’ each day, during which co-workers do not interrupt each other ( except in the case of an emergency…!). Pick convenient times one or two hours long and

Too much work? Feeling slightly out of control? Never ending emails? Meeting after meeting? A feeling that even if you stayed in the office until 10pm, you would never really get ahead?

It might seem like we are stating the obvious here…but messy desks are a serious problem for people in two ways. The first is the time spent looking for things. A survey showed that the average person spends three hours each week just trying to locate something on their desk or in their files.

At the beginning of projects, people sit down and brainstorm. They highlight issues, have creative ideas about how to improve them, try to work out the results wanted at the end of the day; then all this information is either taken to a computer and input or people jump in and start doing. The most critical missing step is how … Read More

You’ve been sitting in the meeting for 93 minutes. It feels like 93 days. It was supposed to last an hour, but the boss is in the room, and the point of the meeting was to discuss his key project, and no one wants to be the first to crack. You’re asking yourself, who’s in charge here? How did all … Read More

Exciting times are ahead for the Priority Management Team in 2014 as we boldly step into the Edinburgh market after taking over the reins for Priority Management Edinburgh from Tom Heron in November last year. As part of this initiative, we are hosting a ‘Re-focus and Refresh’ briefing on Thursday 27th February in the Regus Meeting Rooms, Princes Street, Edinburgh … Read More

Today’s workforces are a diverse bunch. Employers have on average, four generations working under one roof which creates a colourful mix of approaches and viewpoints. Older employees are staying in the workplace longer and deferring retirement, whilst school leavers and graduates are snapping at their heels to get a foot on the career ladder. At Priority Management, our ability to deliver … Read More