Improve Business Communication Skills at Toronto Event

Professional Development and Networking Event: Key Communication Skills to Grow Your Business! The key to successfully starting and growing a business is effective communications.  Your great idea will not get interest from anyone if you can’t share your vision, persuasively pitch your company to investors, and clearly market your products and services. NCCA Canada is […]

Obama’s Speech and the Use of Threes

Like many of you, I thoroughly enjoyed watching Barack Obama give yet another powerful and persuasive speech today at his inauguration for presidency. He motivates, inspires and gives hope by using creative speech, story-telling devices and references to great people of the past. He also creates a vision in our heads of what a better […]

NLP Certification – From Home

Hello, Recently I have had a couple people email and ask me about NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) certification. If you google NLP and then your city name, you will get a much more targeted search. Do you want to study live in a group or at home? What is your budget? For at-home study, here is […]

Communicating Confidently in Business – Workshop

3V Communications Presents An effective communication skills full-day interactive workshop: Communicating Confidently in Business Learn to Communicate with Charisma and Confidence to build your Career Success! November 8th, 2008 – Downtown Toronto Hotel • Are you unsure if you are being heard and respected at work? • Do you feel a little insecure or shy […]

“What is NLP and how can I use it to improve my communications?”

This was a valid question given to me recently by one of my coachees. At first NLP can seem (and sound) daunting and scientifically complicated, but I can help you simplify it and use it everyday. First of all, NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. If you are thinking “brain-language training” you are correct. NLP assists […]

Ric on CBC TV now on YouTube – FYI

This is a follow-up to my appearance on CBC News Television January 1st 2008. I was asked by CBC to come in and discuss why 90% of New Year’s resolutions fail. We only had 5 minutes but we talked about the main reasons why we fail and what we can do to achieve goals. They […]

My Appearance on CBC – Summary

My blog entry regarding new years resolutions caught the attention of someone at CBC – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – and I was invited in to briefly discuss the topic of resolutions and why we fail. (Thank you very much, by the way.) It aired yesterday at 9:15am on the CBC News Morning Show with host […]

Are You on a Confidence Tightrope?

Do you know how confident you should act in your presentations? Robert Herjavec (one of the VCs – Venture Capitalists –  from the TV shows “Dragons’ Den” and “Shark Tank”) was recently asked this question: “What’s the most common fundraising flaw you see in entrepreneurs?” His answer: “Overconfidence, bordering on arrogance. Or lack of confidence, […]