Establishing REAL Rapport

The REAL model is a great way to ensure you are building rapport in conversations with your direct reports.  Read through this model to see how you can structure building some rapport in your next conversation.

Dealing with loneliness

Everybody feels lonely sometimes. But only few of us are aware how important this feeling was for our ancestors – and that our modern world can turn it into something that really hurts us. Why do we feel this way and what can we do about it?

Communicating with impact

Listening is a key leadership skill and responsibility. Build your active listening and building rapport skills using the REAL model.

Perfecting the art of transparent communication and collaboration

You will never be accused of over communicating. Rest assured, nobody will resign from your organisation because they felt you told them too much! The danger in only telling half the story though, is that employees will fill in the gaps and create their own scenario in their head. That’s a downward spiral in the making and will often result in the wrong people exiting the business. Check out our hellomonday post on perfecting the art of transparent communication and collaboration.

Trust – The future of remote work

Trust is vital to any team’s success but trust can’t be built during meetings or work calls. Trust is built when we’re able to connect on a personal level in-between and outside our normal work obligations. That’s why it’s even harder for virtual and remote teams. So, it’s vital that we create spaces (or schedule Zoom calls) that are dedicated to simply spending time together.

Belonging at work

The hidden opportunity and opportunity cost to not creating connected teams. Belonging matters to us. But impact does it have on our work and teams, and what we can achieve together.