Long-term company growth in the UK is under threat, as senior executives don’t have time for strategic planning, according to the Chartered Management Institute.

Its survey of managers found that four in five struggle to prioritise workloads, and 63% say they are so busy ‘doing’ that they don’t have time to think and plan for the future. More than half say they struggle to find ‘time for strategic planning’.

Despite 81% of organisations struggling to recruit the best candidates, only one in three respondents claim that internal talent management is important to their employer and just 33% agree with the statement that they ‘understand how their career will progress’.

The CMI has created an online guide to juggling priorities at www.managers.org.uk/howdoyou.