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What are the best ways to rapport building with a new team?

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Question added by Meherunnessa Runy , Mid-level Officer , DoF
Date Posted: 2013/08/18
Mohammad Rizwanul Haque
by Mohammad Rizwanul Haque , Administration Manager , Oren Hydrocarbons ME FZCo.

 

 

 

To be polite, listen to all and try to involve all of your team members in your creative ideas and achieve the goal.

 

Fazlul Hoque
by Fazlul Hoque , Assistant Director , DoF,GoB

Best ways of Rapport Building with a new Team   Rapport is the ability to enter someone else is world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.
Put simply, you have rapport with someone when there is mutual liking and trust.
Once you have established rapport with a person, he or she is far more likely to be open with you and share information, buy your product, recommend you to others, or support your ideas.
And when someone has established rapport with you, you are likely to do the same.
  Techniques to build Rapport with a new team   You build rapport when you develop mutual trust, friendship, and affinity with someone.
  Building rapport can be incredibly beneficial to your career.
Building rapport opens doors and helps establish good relationships with clients, colleagues, and team members.
  To build rapport with a new team, use the following strategies.
  Find common ground.
Focus on your appearance.
Be empathic.
Mirror the other person.
Don't forget about the basics.
  Building rapport with a person or a new team is best done in the long-term.
But you can use these strategies to build it quickly, if you need to.
  1.
Find Common Ground   Think of how comfortable you might feel if, while living thousands of miles from where you grew up, you met someone from your hometown.
That sense of connectedness creates an instant rapport between two people.
Remember, any common ground can help establish rapport – it can even help to have an interest in someone's life or hobbies, or to share similar beliefs and values.
   2.
Focus on Your Appearance   To making a great first impression your dressing is a key component which establishing rapport with someone.
Your appearance should help you connect with people; not create a barrier.
For instance, imagine you're a sales rep calling on a plant supervisor.
You're dressed in a well-tailored, expensive suit.
Meanwhile, the supervisor has been working out on the floor all day; he's dressed in jeans, a worn flannel shirt, and work boots.
The difference in your appearance is likely to make him feel uncomfortable and perhaps even slightly resentful.
  3.
Be Empathic   Empathy is about understanding other people by seeing things from their perspective, and recognizing their emotions.
Once you achieve this, it's easier to get "on their level."   4.
Use Mirroring   Mirroring is when you adjust your own body language and spoken language so that you "reflect" that of the person you're talking to.
  5.
Don't Forget About the Basics   In developing rapport with others, you should also use the tried-and-true basics of Best communication   a)      Shaking hands firmly (in cultures where this is acceptable).
  b)      Looking people in the eye.
  c)      Smiling.
  d)      Holding your head up and maintaining good posture.
  e)      Asking open-ended questions.
  f)        Being sincere.
  g)      Facing the other person instead of looking at your computer screen or mobile device.
                         

Shivani Sharma
by Shivani Sharma , Manager , none

Hi - Well, first understand the team members, their temperament and way of working, every individual has to be treated differently, as a team leader one has to be polite and smart at the same time a bit strict if team is not able to perform well, we should take our team out to have lunch, we can have group discussions, team leader should appreciate the teams effrots if they are doing well, they should be rewarded, more important is to listen them....guide them, improve them....

Mohamed Samir Abdelgawad
by Mohamed Samir Abdelgawad , Implementation Project Manager , Orange Business Services - France Telecom Group

From expreience, Strong bond is the one of the main keys to successful team.
Be positive, be proactive, be supportive, be friendly, Listen carefully.
Daily brief for5-10 minutes to discuss: KPIs, what happend the day before, whats is your/thier plan, what challenges they are facing, risk and issues.
Also, apprecaite them, award them if avialable, share team KPIs, be flexiable but firm.
Believe in " All in one, and one in all "

In a few words it is:

a) Be yourself. Don’t try to be anything you are not,

b) Smile, give a firm handshake, make eye contact.

c) Communicate effectively and frequently, 

d) Treat them respectfully and with empathy.

 

Mohan Raj
by Mohan Raj , PROJECT MANAGER , SPEED FIRE & SAFETY EQUIPMENT L.L.C

It is possible by listening each of their requirements in work & putting it to one co-eshive whole to make better working environment.

Using a team building activity will work in this case.

Making a better communication channel, this will avoid many problems which obviously make a good rapport 

Ahmed Omar
by Ahmed Omar , Site leader , Procter & Gamble

I think at the beginning you should look for a common goal that you all believe in.

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