3 Questions with Communication Expert Ric Phillips | The Jenn Report
Source: 3 Questions with Communication Expert Ric Phillips | The Jenn Report Be clear, confident and successful! Don’t let a lack of high-level communication skills hold you back. Advises Ric Phillips, a Communication Coach since 2006. His clients include professionals and politicians. A few years ago, I met Ric Phillips at a local networking group […]
Repeat Favourite Phrases to Improve Conversation
One of the things to remember when you are looking to improve conversation skills, especially if you are using English as a second language and you really want to speak English better, is that English is just one part of language, and language is just one part of communication. A quick way to build rapport […]
Do You Prefer the Staff to be Nameless or Individuals?
My wife and I recently went to Summerhill Spa to redeem our freebie (mentioned below), and the first thing I should get out of the way is that the 90-minute hot stone therapy massages were great and we were satisfied. We tipped well to show our gratitude. The one thing my wife and I both […]
What You Can Do to Communicate with Comfort and Trustworthiness
Hello Fellow Communication Enthusiasts, Today’s post is about what you can do to communicate with comfort and trustworthiness. Many business leaders, politicians and public speakers need to get a clear message out to their audience to “trust me”, “follow me” and “believe me”. Right now in Ontario, Canada we are in the middle of a […]
Jack Layton – A Confident Communicator Gone Too Soon
As we all know by now in Canada and many parts of the world, our fearless leader of the Opposition, Jack Layton, has succumbed to a second battle with cancer. He was only 61. Jack was a great communicator because he was able to handle himself in difficult discussions (as the 2011 Leadership Debate certainly […]
Recovering from a Bad First Impression
Have you ever met someone new at a dinner party, networking function, or a dating event, and they rubbed you the wrong way immediately? Something they said or did, or they way they spoke or acted, just really turned you off? Sure, we all have had that experience. Now let me ask you, do you […]
Comparing Communication and English Conversations Skills
What are the English Language Conversation Skills? English Language Conversation Skills include language abilities, conversation skills, social skills, culture knowledge and non-verbal communication skills. Non-verbal communication skills are classified as posture, body movements, gestures, facial expressions, proximity and eye contact. In English speaking countries the non-verbal messages can represent from 50-93% of the meaning. Social […]
German computer geeks learn to flirt
(In point of fact a lot of my clients come from the world of I.T., finance or engineering. This article is interesting as it indirectly demonstrates how important social communication skills can be lost when a person focuses too much on the ‘hard skills’ or scholastic endeavors. As a Communication Coach I help people find […]
Repeat Key Phrases to Help Accent
One of the things to remember when you are looking to speak English better, is that English is just one part of language, and language is just one part of communication. A quick way to build rapport with your listener is to take a technique from NLP and mimic or reflect back their favourite words […]
Do You Speak the Same Way to a Taxi Driver and a CEO?
Greetings everyone! Sorry it has been a while – Moscow has been keeping me busy (but for only one more week now). I thought you might like to consider the question in the title – from a communications perspective, anyway. Rebecca MacDonald, Canadian entrepreneur and co-founder of Energy Savings Income Fund, was recently asked a […]