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March memo from Derek Arden – Summary – 7 habits of highly effective people
Here are just some of the pages that I would recommend you look at first before going in and out of the book. Great book lots of power points
1 – How you think is everything.
2 – Decide on your true dreams and goals; Write down your specific goals and develop a plan to reach them.
3 [...]
Daily Mail: How to Haggle
There’s never been a better time to bag a bargain through a bit of judicious haggling. But, even so, most of us still feel too embarrassed to try. Here arch-haggler Derek Arden, a graduate of Havard Business School and a conference speaker on haggling, tells Tessa Cunningham how to cut a deal.
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7 Steps to Success — with Body Talk
Dress for Success
What you wear is 95% per of what your audience sees, so make it appropriate. Take particular care with your suit, tie, blouse and shoes – a good rule of thumb is to dress slightly better than your audience. Make sure that you are well groomed (hair, nails etc.).
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Put yourself in the right [...]
Look, Listen and Learn (or, How to Get What You Want)
Many people find the prospect of high-level business negotiating terrifying, and would probably consider jumping out of an aeroplane a less stressful option than asking for a raise.
Derek Arden explains why and reveals strategies for overcoming the fear of asking for what you want.
(This article was first published in the Chartered Institute of Bankers Journal)
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Short Cut to Creativity
Creativity can be defined as, “having the ability to create, by stimulating the imagination.” — Collins English Dictionary
There are many techniques that can be used to assist creativity — for example, brainstorming, mindstorming, mindmappimg (to name just a few).
These techniques all stimulate the right side of the brain and then feed the ideas back into [...]