1.
Rapport with any audience If you don't connect with your audience within the first two minutes of standing on that stage, you will not achieve the success you hope for.
Rapport is the deep connection between people which allows you to say things in a more challenging way.
It's the glue that keeps someone on your side if you stumble or lose your way.
It's the understanding that allows you to tweak or twist your message to ensure it has maximum impact, constantly adjusting and readjusting to your audience's mood and feelings as you go along.
2.
Establishing rapport with your audience will help you - Deliver the most relevant content in the most appropriate way - Ensure that you include the key required messages - Connect on a deeper, more meaningful level - Gauge the mood and responsiveness of your listeners, allowing you to adjust accordingly - Have a greater impact 3.
The 7 essential steps to establishing rapport with a group 1.
Smile.
Lots.
2.
Observation of your audience's expressions and body language 3.
Prior understanding of your audience's interests, language and style 4.
Using humour effectively and appropriately 5.
Making and maintaining as much individual eye contact as possible 6.
Ensuring there are no obstacles (like a podium) between you and the audience 7.
Make your story believable in their world, as judged by their expectations and experiences 4.
Story The best example of great rapport creation I have ever come across was as a delegate in a training seminar.
The speaker had an uncanny ability to engage with every single person of the audience, and make them feel as if he had connected personally with each and every one of them.
As an audience member, I felt as if he was speaking directly to me.
Looking directly at me.
As if every element of his message had direct relevance to me and my life.
Yet when I left the seminar, and was chatting afterwards to a group of other delegates - every single other person had left the room with the same feeling of being individually targeted.
Incredible.
5.
Having great rapport with your audience is like walking into a room, and realising it's full of old friends...
A speaker who has great rapport with the audience finds a roomful of strangers quickly turns into a roomful of friends.
You can judge their mood with a single glance, allow them time and space to respond, and feel totally comfortable in who you are, and who they are.
Rapport with any audience If you don't connect with your audience within the first two minutes of standing on that stage, you will not achieve the success you hope for.
Rapport is the deep connection between people which allows you to say things in a more challenging way.
It's the glue that keeps someone on your side if you stumble or lose your way.
It's the understanding that allows you to tweak or twist your message to ensure it has maximum impact, constantly adjusting and readjusting to your audience's mood and feelings as you go along.
2.
Establishing rapport with your audience will help you - Deliver the most relevant content in the most appropriate way - Ensure that you include the key required messages - Connect on a deeper, more meaningful level - Gauge the mood and responsiveness of your listeners, allowing you to adjust accordingly - Have a greater impact 3.
The 7 essential steps to establishing rapport with a group 1.
Smile.
Lots.
2.
Observation of your audience's expressions and body language 3.
Prior understanding of your audience's interests, language and style 4.
Using humour effectively and appropriately 5.
Making and maintaining as much individual eye contact as possible 6.
Ensuring there are no obstacles (like a podium) between you and the audience 7.
Make your story believable in their world, as judged by their expectations and experiences 4.
Story The best example of great rapport creation I have ever come across was as a delegate in a training seminar.
The speaker had an uncanny ability to engage with every single person of the audience, and make them feel as if he had connected personally with each and every one of them.
As an audience member, I felt as if he was speaking directly to me.
Looking directly at me.
As if every element of his message had direct relevance to me and my life.
Yet when I left the seminar, and was chatting afterwards to a group of other delegates - every single other person had left the room with the same feeling of being individually targeted.
Incredible.
5.
Having great rapport with your audience is like walking into a room, and realising it's full of old friends...
A speaker who has great rapport with the audience finds a roomful of strangers quickly turns into a roomful of friends.
You can judge their mood with a single glance, allow them time and space to respond, and feel totally comfortable in who you are, and who they are.