Rapport: The Art of Connecting with People and Building Relationships

Have you gone in for a job interview lately and feel like you were unable to connect properly with the interviewer and knew you weren't going to get the call to come back for a final interview? Have you ever tried to talk to someone you were romantically interested in and ended up alone or even worse with a fake phone number? Have you ever gone to a party or any other type of social gathering and couldn't strike up a good conversation with anyone so you ended up the person that sits alone and leaves early?What you may be missing is the the ability to develop a good rapport with others. What is rapport you ask?Rapport is a lost art. So much time is spent in emotionless chat rooms or surfing social media websites that face to face communication has become uncomfortable for many. Rapport is something that can happen instantly, like in a "we just clicked" situation. Or, rapport can be built slowly, like between leaders of a community and their constituents or new managers and their employees. Rapport is a comfortable feeling that any number of people involved in any type of situation share between them. It can be a romantic, business, or just a platonic friendship. "Rapport" by Gabriel Angelo can definitely help you learn the proper communication skills to develop an instant rapport between yourself and a prospective employer. It explains how to develop, sharpen, and put these skills to work for your advantage. It is very well written and should help open the doors for the reader when it comes to face to face communication.

I've had a hard time understanding what rapport truly is. Very rarely do I feel like I truly "click" with someone. I am constantly on my phone or reading so I have very little interacting face-to-face with different people. To be honest, it's hard for me sometimes to even step out of my comfort zone to even speak to someone. Now with non-verbal rapport, I have it down. Verbal, still need a lot of work. I learned that the most common way to build it is to build commonality. These days, I've found it hard to find something in common with others. However, there are other techniques I found out through the book that I can use to build rapport if that doesn't work.I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am beginning to practice what I've learned by it. Also learning that BODY LANGUAGE means a huge chunk of building rapport, was helpful. I have an interview coming up that I'll use these tips to build rapport. Fingers crossed!

Gave me some insight that I have not thought about. Will read back through for detail and practice the methods.

The book was short but direct and to the point.Easy to understand with concepts that would be simple to apply.

I enjoyed the simple language of this book and the practical ideas to enable you to build rapport anywhere and at anytime.Buy this book.

Good starter book. Provides sources to referenced information and is generally helpful.

This was a very basic overview with little to no original analysis. It mostly repeated the same ideas from other sources.

A quick read that covers much of the subject of Rapport. The author uses several noted sources and creates a solid book on the subject.

Poorly written, extremely vague and repetitive. Feels like a student essay. Was wondering who would publish this and it turns out the author has his own publishing company!

Too little and repetitive content to be useful. So little that I don't know how to fill the 20 words needed for this review...