{"id":1418,"date":"2017-11-09T13:08:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T18:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2017-11-09T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T18:09:25","slug":"ncca-canada-toronto-event-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/ncca-canada-toronto-event-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"NCCA Canada Toronto Event Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: <\/strong>November 9th<\/sup> 2017<\/p>\n

CONTACT<\/strong>: <\/strong>Mr. Ric Phillips, Executive Director, RPhillips@NCCACanada.org, 647-478-8612<\/p>\n

NCCA Canada Hosted Innovative Toronto Event Connecting Communication Coaches With Small Business Entrepreneurs to Help Improve Business Communications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toronto City Hall, October 13th<\/sup> 2017<\/em> \u2014 The key to successfully starting and growing a business is effective communications.\u00a0 An entrepreneur or small business owner may have a great idea, but will not get much interest from anyone if they cannot share their vision, persuasively pitch, and clearly explain their products and services. There are professional coaches and trainers who focus on helping people improve their business communication skills, and they need a place and an organization to meet each other.<\/p>\n

NCCA Canada<\/a> proudly partnered with YEDI<\/a> (York Entrepreneurship Development Institute)<\/em><\/strong> and the City of Toronto<\/strong> to co-host a half-day professional development and networking event at Toronto City Hall where professionals from various industries learned how to develop these vital business communication skills.\u00a0Jason Easton, MPP Jeff Leal\u2019s Chief of Staff for the Small Business in Ontario portfolio gave opening remarks on the importance of honing professional communications before NCCA President, speaker extraordinaire and body language expert Mark Bowden<\/em><\/a> delivered a truly memorable keynote on persuasive non-verbal communication. NCCA Executive Director Ric Phillips<\/em><\/strong> then led an interactive learning workshop on the art of the quick pitch. This led to lunch and mini-workshops hosted by Colleen Clarke<\/em><\/strong> on the topic of how networking is really \u201ctelling, not selling\u201d and Dr. Marat Ressin<\/em><\/strong> on clarifying a business vision. The half-day ended with a panel discussion on the trends in the coaching and learning & development industries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs and small business owners to quickly learn and implement the same day specific and very useful business communication skills, and then network with other business people and communication coaches who teach these skills,\u201d<\/em> said Co-Founder and Executive Director of NCCA Canada Ric Phillips.<\/p>\n

This event was open to everyone and received praise for it\u2019s innovative model from coaches, trainers, vendors and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was invigorating. To finally be in a community of communicators, swapping stories and ideas about the work we do, and to listen to such accomplished, interesting speakers was great. Thank you for seeing the need and for building a high quality base for us\u201d <\/em>said Eleanor James, Communication Coach\/Trainer.<\/p>\n

About NCCA Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

NCCA (National Communication Coaching Association) Canada is a nationally registered non-profit organization that acts as a home for communication skills coaches, trainers and enthusiasts, providing professional development, networking and designation opportunities for its members.\u00a0 NCCA also provides communication coach\/trainer and training company designation standards, peer review and official designation lists, used for professional credentialing<\/em>. The primary mission of NCCA is to contribute to the growth of personal and professional communication skills, both here and abroad.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 9th 2017 CONTACT: Mr. Ric Phillips, Executive Director, RPhillips@NCCACanada.org, 647-478-8612 NCCA Canada Hosted Innovative Toronto Event Connecting Communication Coaches With Small Business Entrepreneurs to Help Improve Business Communications Toronto City Hall, October 13th 2017 \u2014 The key to successfully starting and growing a business is effective communications.\u00a0 An entrepreneur or small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[544,533,534],"tags":[562,847,808,589,846,831,845,550,814,532,820,569],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-language","category-interpersonal-communications","category-professional-communications","tag-colleen-clarke","tag-communication-coaches","tag-mark-bowden","tag-media","tag-membership","tag-ncca","tag-ncca-canada","tag-networking","tag-non-profits","tag-professional-communications","tag-professional-development","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}