Review: Skills and Ideas I Never Considered Before
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 13, 2012
If, like me, you have never really thought about meeting people and building rapport as a skill set that can be learned and acquired, then Ben Night's concise little book, "The Art Of Instant Rapport: How To Build Instant Rapport With New Friends, Romantic Interests, And Coworkers" will be an eye-opener.Relationships are an important part of life, and the more success you can have with relationships, the more your life will be enhanced, both personally and professionally. Since people instinctively judge others whom they just met within the first 10 seconds of the encounter, making a good first impression is key in this regard.Author Night begins by discussing the importance of body language and how to evaluate your own body language and improve it. He advises that people should try to send out positive signals by standing up straight, holding one's chin up, sticking out one's chest a bit and pulling back the shoulders a little.He also discusses the need to evaluate the person you are meeting to determine if they are a visual, auditory or kinesthetic (touchy - feely) type of person and how to make a good impression with each of these different kinds of people.Another interesting section has to do with what he calls "the rapport cycle". This is followed by some guidelines that help you train yourself to be a good conversationalist, so that you can keep a conversation moving along nicely and avoid embarrassing periods of dead silence.This is an interesting little read, and it brought up ideas that I'd never considered before. Again, personal relationships are important in life, and most people would do well to read this book and give a some thought to the subject.