The Power of Conducting a Swot Analysis
Don’t under estimate the power of conducting a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis. When we are working with clients this is usually completed quite early on in the process to get an overview of a company’s potential and is a key component when…
Efficiency is doing the thing right… Effectiveness is doing the right thing!
Managing your own time against the multiple demands of running a business is difficult enough but when it comes to managing employees’ time and productivity it can be a mammoth task. However it’s hugely important for the running of an efficient and profitable business. In…
Fortune Favours the Brave
At Prime Strategies we love graphs. This one below encapsulates the behaviour of many SME’s (Small to Medium sized Enterprises) showing why they don’t go on to become the huge success that they originally intended to be. It demonstrates that when we are risk taking,…
6 Steps to better Productivity
By Meridith Levinson for CIO Workplace performance expert Jason Womack says changing the way we do our work to improve our productivity is hard because our processes have become habit, and in many cases these habits have made us successful (even if they drove us to the…
9 smart ways to get the most out of meetings
Veteran financier Ray Dalio has been in every kind of meeting: the good, the bad and the ugly. Here’s how he keeps his meetings focused and productive. In 1974, Ray Dalio founded the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, and it’s now the world’s largest, managing roughly $160 billion. Here…
7 Management Practices to Improve Employee Productivity
By Victor Lipman for Forbes. All companies want to improve employee productivity, but how often do they examine their own management practices as a means of attaining it?  This Dale Carnegie Study showed that a disturbingly high number of non-management employees are disengaged, not working at full productive…
5 Super Skills for Smart Time Management
Using time intentionally means you will achieve more and enjoy yourself more fully in your work and life, every day. Steps to effective time management More effective use of your time with people More effective use of your time on projects and related activities Knowing…
8 Great Ways to Double your Productivity
Decide today that you are going to become an expert in time management and personal productivity, no matter how long it takes or how much you have to invest to achieve it. Resolve today that you are going to practice these principles over and over…
Six simple tips for super productivity
Even though there are numerous prioritising and organizing aids available, productivity is really more and self-discipline than using a mountain of tools or the newest high tech gadget. Learning and applying behaviours that will help you get more done – in less time – and…