The business glossary resource is growing with the addition of a number of property related terms, including an overview of business rates in the UK.

Last week, I talked about Time, and how people’s understanding of time effects their daily routine, and that of others.Today I would like to elaborate on this idea, with an example to illustrate the point.

One client we worked for was always late for meetings, regularly 30 to 45 minutes late, every time.

There was one notorious occasion when a large meeting involving several companies was held up for over an hour; when this particular client arrived she apologised saying “I am sorry I am late, I’ve just been to a time management seminar”.

Some seminar! So how can you deal with people like this, who are inherently late? Even with important clients it is vital to set ground rules. For meetings, state in advance:

Whilst these guidelines work best if you are the chair of the meeting, setting out your understanding of how a meeting will run in advance, can help all participants.

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He starts by showing how to assess where you are now, and where you want to be, before providing tools and examples to help you to achieve a brilliant future.

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Today I would like to ask you to improve your relationship with time.

Get to meetings early.

The alternative is to be late (or possibly exactly on time).

When you are late, you miss things. Meetings have to be rescheduled, and you start to directly effect other peoples’ time apportionment. When you are late, you are rushed, possibly stressed and the result is you are less focused and do not perform as well.

So be on time, but have a selection of small tasks you can undertake (a report or professional magazine article you can read, for example) whilst you wait for the meeting to start.

Results from the Halifax UK house market survey show that prices rose by 1.2% in September due to increased activity over the previous month.

Despite this, the annual rate of inflation is much reduced from this time in 2004, and now stands at 3%, compared with the 20.5% recorded in the third quarter of 2004.

Prices are not rising in all areas, however, with falls recorded in the south-west, falling 1.5%, and in the south-east where they were down 1.1%. East Anglia showed a reduction of 0.8% and in the east Midlands dropped by 0.4%.

Do you regularly have an idea on how something can be improved or a problem solved, and then, some time later remember that you forgot all about it?

Often these thoughts will come to you when you are least able to take action on them. If you keep a small notebook with you for jotting down these thoughts you need never forget them and can implement them when you have more time. Think of it as an ‘Ideas Diary’.

And you don’t need to limit this to ideas for improvements, add business ideas, inspiring quotes or interesting facts that you may use in the future. Alternatively, keep a Dictaphone or small digital recorder with you so you can make a voice memo there and then, but transcribe the thought at a later time.

If these are all written down in one place you can review them at your leisure and use them when you need to.