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Transform Your Time Management with AI

Posted by Emma Ewing on 1st June 2026

Transform Your Time Management with AI

The ability to simultaneously juggle competing priorities can be one of the biggest challenges of the job, whether you’re agency-side or in-house. AI can be primed to help.

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Is Something Burning? Simmer Down!

Posted by Emma Ewing on 4th January 2022

Is Something Burning? Simmer Down!

"I just can't do everything - I feel like I'm always on the back foot," is something I hear quite often in my sessions with PR, comms and marketing people.

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Why 'to do' lists don't work... as well as 'done' lists

Posted by Lorraine Forrest-Turner on 15th April 2014

Why 'to do' lists don't work... as well as 'done' lists

I'm a very sad person. I love ticking things off my 'to do' list. I love it so much that I actually add things to my list after I've done them just so I can tick them off. It turns out that I'm not alone in this self reward behaviour. There's something in the satisfaction of ticking things off (or, in my case, putting a wavy line through) that makes us feel in control of our workloads and good about our achievements.

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Is something broken when it won't stop working?

Posted by Lorraine Forrest-Turner on 15th January 2014

Is something broken when it won't stop working?

My washing machine is broken. It washes, it drains, it spins and the clothes come out clean. So what's the problem? It takes far too long to do it! Until recently, my washing machine had various cycle options, including the so-called 'quick wash' (which took the best part of an hour), the 'normal wash' (over two hours) and the 'if you've got nothing else to do with your life wash'. Now my 'quick wash' takes so long I have to do an emergency 'stop and drain' if I want to keep my sanity. But what has all of this got to do with PR?

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