Soft Skills People Skills Rapport   Connecting with People A key to rapport and great relationships Vadim L-Creator            Advanced Soft Skills Learn to connect with others by taking full advantage of your body, your mind, your voice, and above all your imagination. To build wonderful relationships, be a shawl of empathy, a shower of joy, and a well of inspiration.   Cafe 'Soulmates'   Your People Skills "Connecting with people is not about being phony or acting like someone you are not; it's about creating a favorable link between your internal nature with its beliefs and values, and the external world where you go to work." ~ Nicholas Boothman, the author of How To Connect in Business in 90 Seconds or Less     Benefits of Connecting with Others Learning to connect fast with your customers, colleagues, bosses, employees, and even total strangers will give you a significant competitive edge. It will help you maximize the potential in every relationship, be it personal, business-related, or social.   Fools talk mouth-to-mouth. Intelligent people talk mouth-to-ear. Wise people and lovers talk soul-to-soul.     Positive First Impression Your ability to make a great first impression is a strategic key to your success  – because the first impression lasts! The first impression is created within seconds and lasts for years. Knowing how to make a great first impression on others is the first step to knowing how to connect with and build rapport with new people in your life and business.       → Best First-Impression video by Dennis, winner of the Mister Innovation World award     Advanced Soft Skills Don't be a star, be a sun! Speak from your soul, and every soul will open up, understand, and respond. You don't need to shout to be heard. Sincere hearts are listened to and heard even when they are silent.       Connect with Senses "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." ~ Donald Laird       People have different preferred ways of thinking and communicating their experiences – some express themselves in pictures, others talk about how things sound to them, and others speak about how things feel. If you want to connect with them, you have to figure out which sense they favor.     To work effectively with people, take their preferred style of interaction and decision-making into account. Many misunderstandings derive from differences in style. For example, "Perceivers" may see "Judgers" as unwilling to take the time to explore creative options. Conversely, "Judgers" can become irritated by "Perceivers" who may stray from the agenda... More     Self-Irony Self-irony is an effective way of connecting with people. Some performing artists employ self-irony to earn sympathy of their spectators (examples).       Your People Skills Eye Contact "The cheapest, most effective way to connect with people is to look them into the eye." ~ Nicholas Boothman Eye is one of the most important nonverbal channels you have for communication and connecting with other people.       Eyes are not only the "window to the soul", they also answer the critical questions when you are trying to connect: ▪ Is s/he paying attention to what I'm saying? ▪ Does this person find me attractive? ▪ Does this person like me?... More     Your People Skills If you really want to understand someone, free yourself from your ego and become the person you want to understand. If you want your message to hit the target, make the right adjustment to the wind.     Community-wide Rapport Community-wide rapport is friendship and mutual sympathy effective and operative throughout the whole community. Its pleasures structure spiritual, moral and collaborative interactions between individuals in such a way that all parties enjoy it and benefit from it. Example       Keep growing!     If you stop learning, you stop creating history and become history.         People Skills Short Course to Human Relationships Benefits of Building Rapport Cross-cultural Trust NLP Skills Explore Your Relationships Planet of Loving Creators United Nationals {UNs)  ▪  United Innovators Cross-Cultural Unity     Tweet