The 5 Steps to Rapport Building for Stronger Relationships In Your Personal and Professional Life

On high-performance and relationship building

As a leader, it is crucial to understand that high performance is not just about solving problems quickly.?

While problem-solving skills are important, building relationships is equally crucial.?

Our core need for connection as human beings means that success, both personally and professionally, is determined by our ability to build meaningful relationships.

Without a connection or relationship, it can be difficult to establish trust and understanding with others, leading to missed opportunities for growth, collaboration, and success.?

Whether it’s attracting a potential client, sharing a laugh at work or building a high-performing team…

What can we do to establish a deeper connection with the people around us?

Building strong relationships begins with rapport building.

Rapport building and its benefits

Rapport building involves the ability to create a sense of connection, ease, and comfort in someone's presence.?

It is a state of harmonious understanding where they feel familiar, safe, and trusted.

It promotes emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills, which enable us to create an environment of loyalty and connection.?

It is about achieving mutual trust and understanding between two or more people which leads to deep listening, meaningful conversations, and fulfilling relationships that benefit everyone involved.

Mastering the art of rapport building allows us to build fulfilling relationships, collaborate effectively, and achieve even greater success in our personal and professional lives.?

The 5 steps to building rapport

1. Physical mirroring - Copy their posture, facial expressions, hand gestures, movements and eye blinking. You need to be subtle but you’ll be surprised how quickly you can build rapport by bringing your awareness to what you are doing,
2. Match their voice - The tone, tempo, quality of their voice and volume. You can even match keywords such as ‘actually’ or ‘got it?’
3. Match their breathing - Breath at the same time (in and out, in and out). Are they breathing deeply or shallowly?
4. Match the size of information - If they speak in the big picture, they will be bored with details, and you will need to give them lots of information.
5. Match their common experience - Find out what you have in common—experiences, interests, background, beliefs and values, ideologies and common associations.

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