People Skills Connecting with Others   Rapport A key to great relationships and influencing yourself and others Vadim L-Creator           Rapport is a process of connecting with people and building a sustaining relationship of mutual trust, harmony and understanding. It is the ability to join people where they are in order to build a climate of trust and respect. Your People Skills       Benefits of Rapport Building Rapport is a key to connecting with people, harmonious relationships, building trust, influencing and persuading people, effective collaboration, and relationship marketing.       Rapport is essentially meeting individuals in their model of the world. This happens through empathizing, matching the accessing cues from words, eye movements and body language. Having rapport does not mean that you have to agree, but that you understand where the other person or people are coming from.         Levels of Rapport Higher self The purpose of life Beliefs and values Passions Character and personality Self-expression Behavior Skills     Creating Rapport To create rapport, it is important to empathize with, listen to emotions of, understand perceptions of, adapt to, mirror, match, and pace the person or persons with whom you are communicating or collaborating. In order to do so, it is important for you to open your sensory channels and engage all your senses.   To build wonderful relationships, be a shawl of empathy, a shower of joy, and a well of inspiration.           You can train yourself to build and refine this operational skill.  Your People Skills "Opening your sensory channels provides you with the ability to see, hear, and sense external changes (minimal cues, both verbal and nonverbal) presented by individuals with whom you are communicating. This is the first step to eliminating an internal response and mind reading." ~ Kevin Hogan and William Horton, the authors of Selling Yourself to Others       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!     Keep learning forward because if you strop learning, you stop creating history and become history. VadiK Inventor Author Founder   People Skills Short Course to Human Relationships Connecting with People Cross-cultural Trust NLP Skills Explore Your Relationships Planet of Loving Creators United Nationals {UNs)  ▪  United Innovators Cross-Cultural Unity