During this Episode and the coming 2 ones, Karim will talk about Rapport building. In this first one the focus will be on the meaning of rapport and how important it to deal with it at a conscious level, for coaches, and for anyone who’s in an interaction with others, professionally and personally.

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Hey what’s up everybody, this is Karim Amri. Welcome to Coaching Secrets Podcast.

In previous episode, we explored the Presupposition of Professional Coaching, and one of the shared presuppositions was : “Resistance in a participant is a sign of a lack of Rapport”, so what is rapport and how we build it. This is our topic for today, so let’s explore it.

Having good rapport with someone is synonym to be highly sensitive to his moods, responses and reactions, in fact you’re highly connected that you can see and expect things from him that even the person himself can’t see or expect. And that’s what making rapport a fundamental skill in relationships.

In coaching the effectiveness of your coaching is a direct proportion of the level of relationship and rapport with the client. In other words, the success in achieving the client outcome from the coaching relationship depends at a high level of the rapport you have with him and the rapport he’s having with you.

As when you have good rapport you’ll know how and when to stretch your client and how and when to follow up with him and help him reach the best of his potential.

When it comes to rapport, we always consider how to build rapport, and it’s funny how we usually pay attention only when we have lack of rapport or loose our rapport with someone or with our client we don’t consider it before.

We feel that we loose the spark we usually have from the client, we feel it when there’s no bond, a broken link is there.

And that’s way when it comes to rapport, awareness and intentionality is key to keep a good rapport, we need to always feed and work on the relationship and pay attention to each and every detail shared or expressed by the other person, to take it into consideration when dealing with him.

Finally, and before finishing today’s episode about Rapport, it’s important to highlight that building rapport, can start before even meeting the person for the first time.

This happen, by paying attention to the email sent by the client or other person, how it is written (Long, short, style) or the phone message content or even the way he talk during the first phone call, tonality, level of voice and other related details.

In our daily life, during their daily interaction people tend to build and develop rapport unconsciously, without paying attention or being aware. Being intentional and conscious in building that rapport is one of the most powerful skills that can change the life of a persona and those around him.

Be intentional in building rapport.

That’s all for today, In tomorrow’s episode we’re gonna talk about the different aspects to consider in order to build rapport . Thank you all for listening. Keep growing and bye for now.