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AUGUST 2023

How to Build Rapport

In most professional settings, you don’t always choose who you work with. Some colleagues you might get along with right away, while other relationships take more time to establish. Being able to work with individuals who have different personalities is crucial to being successful, and knowing how to build rapport can go a long way in helping to establish those relationships. Here are a few ways to build rapport and ultimately develop stronger professional relationships.

 

Find Common Ground

One of the quickest ways to build rapport is to find out what you have in common with your colleagues. Do you like the same sports team? Are your kids in the same grade? Take some time to learn what is important to your colleagues beyond work and determine if you have similar interests. This common ground creates a safe space for you both to build a more personal connection, which can strengthen your professional relationship.

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Why Rapport Is Important

The effort you put into building rapport with colleagues, clients, and people outside the office is time well spent. Here are a few reasons why it’s important to nurture your relationships.

 

Builds trust

Without trust, it’s hard for any relationship to last, including those in your professional life. Your boss needs to trust you. Managers want to know that you’re committed to the work and can be relied on to complete assignments carefully and on time, and that they can rely on you. Likewise, you need to trust that your boss will guide you, respect you, and help you progress into more challenging leadership roles.

 

Improves performance

For some people, especially those in sales and client-facing roles, their livelihood could depend on building rapport. Studies show that people who work directly with clients perform better when they spend more time building rapport. Depending on your salary structure, it can be a real game changer.

Phrases to Help Build Rapport

Ready to build stronger relationships, but not sure how to start the conversation? Here are some open-ended questions to help get the dialogue going. Toss a few out and actively listen — you might find you have a lot in common with the people you work with.

  • What’s the best advice you ever received? 
  • What’s something you’re really proud of? 
  • What’s something that most people don’t know about you? 
  • If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?
  • What’s one book you always come back to or re-read? 
  • How’s your day going?
  • What’s something new you’ve learned recently?
  • What’s one problem in your work that you wish you could solve tomorrow? 
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AISES Career Hub and Opportunities Board have free online job and career resource information.

At the Career Hub job seekers can scan jobs, upload a resume or explore career resources by industry, state or job function. The Opportunities Board is a centralized hub of information with opportunities like scholarships, internships, and more. You can get access to complete, verified, and updated information that can help you grow your skills and expertise. What are you waiting for? Go to or .

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PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Save the date for a major conference at Harvard University titled “Responsibility and Repair: Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement, Indenture, and Colonization at Harvard and Beyond.” The program will be held at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 2–3.

 

Nominations are open until September 15, 2023. The Alan T. Waterman is the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Highest Honor. The award recognizes an outstanding early career researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the NSF.

 

We invite you to participate in the upcoming ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) and the Int’l Advanced School on Empirical Software Engineering (IASESE) in New Orleans.

PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

JOB OPENINGS

3M

– Moncure, N.C.

– Utah

– Eden Prairie, Minn.

– Minnesota

– Maplewood, Minn.

– Minnesota

– Bay Area, Calif.

– Remote

– Remote

– Indianapolis, Ind.

– Remote

– Washington, D.C.

– Remote

– Minnesota

– Remote

 

AMETEK – Peabody, Mass.

 

Brown University School of Engineering – Providence, R.I.

 

Cal/OSHA

– Redding, Calif.

 

CIA – Washington, D.C.

 

City of Charlotte - Charlotte Water – Charlotte, N.C.

 

CrowdStrike – California

 

Eli Lilly & Company – Indianapolis, Ind.

 

Harvard Business School – Boston, Mass.

 

Harvard Medical School – Boston, Mass.

 

Holt Engineering, Inc. – Austin, Tex.

 

Infomatics – Liberty, N.C.

 

Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority – Little Rock, Ark.

 

National Fuel Gas – Erie, Pa.

 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Boulder, Colo.

 

New York University Faculty of Arts and Science – New York, N.Y.

 

NIH National Institute on Aging – Bethesda, Md.

 

Northrop Grumman – Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

 

Pegasus TSI – Tampa, Fla.

 

Raytheon – Farmington, N.M.

 

Stanford University Doerr School of Sustainability – Stanford, Calif.

 

Union College – Schenectady, N.Y.

 

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Statistics – Berkeley, Calif.

 

USDA Forest Service – Various Locations

 

Watry Design, Inc. – Long Beach, Calif.

JOB OPENINGS

RESOURCES

RESOURCES FOR AISES MEMBERS

 

AISES events, like the and , and meetings are great opportunities to network.

 

Have you had a chance to check out the AISES Twitter feed? to get up-to-date info on what’s going on with the organization and the latest happenings in Indian Country.

ONLINE RESOURCES

SAVE THE DATE

October 19–21

Spokane, Wash.

 

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