What Does Your Handshake Say? Learn These Tips

Everyone is talking about President Trump’s power handshakes, and today everyone is proud of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for not allowing Trump to bully-handshake him at their White house meeting yesterday.  I was contacted yesterday myself by Maclean’s Magazine for an interview on my thoughts on their non-verbal communication. That short video can be […]

My TED Talk: The Long Life of First Impressions

The importance of interpersonal skills in today’s tech-world cannot be underrated or undervalued, and that’s why I focused my recent TED Talk on them.  Please take a moment to view and learn about “The Long Life of First Impressions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuG-BHquAHU  If you like it, please ‘like’ it and share to your social networks, or directly […]

Become a Certified 3V Communication Coach

Are you interested in becoming a Certified Communication Coach? Coaching in general is an exploding industry, and the interest in communication coaching itself has tripled in the last few years. There are organizations that can certify you as a life coach, NLP coach, business coach etc. but currently there are not many, or no  organizations […]

5 Tips for Finding a New (Communication) Coach

It can be difficult to find the perfect coach for you when you’ve never done it before.  There are many types of coaches, with various backgrounds and different areas of specialization.  Here are some quick tips to get you started on the right foot: 1 – self-assess your needs first.  Be as specific as possible […]

Bitch slap: How do you handle conflict? | In the Key of He

Please click the link below to read the full story on Leah’s blog. Source: Bitch slap: How do you handle conflict? | In the Key of He Here is an excerpt: “Conflict management I shared a radio interview with communications expert, Ric Phillips, of 3V Communications last year and I met with him this week. I […]

Are You the Director of First Impressions?

I snapped this picture a few weeks ago while i was visiting my local Scotiabank branch here in Toronto.  I’m not sure how widely used this new labelling is – maybe it’s a national or even international initiative – but it’s eye-catching to say the least.  For me I immediately responded to it because as […]

The Art of Small Talk and Deeper Conversation

My friend and fellow Communication Expert Mark Bowden was recently on the TV show The Social, and revealed some great verbal and non-verbal communication tips for us to use or avoid when in conversation.  Many people have a difficult time with the art of small talk, not only with getting the conversation started, but with […]

Negotiations Are Easier With the ‘3 Ls’ Technique

On April 30th 2015 an organization I am proudly a part of, YEDI – York Entrepreneurship Development Institute, held its inaugural alumni meeting at York University (Toronto, Ontario). As a Program Advisor and Business Communications Specialist I was asked to partake in the Panel Discussion along with the other YEDI Program Advisors to share insights […]