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Trust and rapport

Featured in the The Twenty-first Century Leader training manual

By Larry Reynolds

Category: Leadership

Credit price: 2 download credits (Single user)

Leaders can only lead to the extent that they are trusted by their constituents. This training activity explores what it takes to be trusted both in the short and in the long term. In particular, the training activity explores the role of body language in building trust and rapport.

Participants draw on their own experience to discover what they have to do to make a good first impression. They then investigate the part that body language plays in building trust and rapport. Finally, they construct their own model for enhancing trust in the long term.

Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to help participants investigate the role of body language in building trust. They construct a model for building rapport and developing trust over the long term.

Resource Type:Activity
Min Group Size:4
Max Group Size:20
Typical Duration:01:30:00
No of Pages:8

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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers as an important preliminary to the later technique-based activities in a leadership development programme. This is because trust is an essential prerequisite for most forms of effective influence. This training activity is also useful as a part of training courses on decision making, influencing skills, management skills and managing change.

Download the training activity, Trust and rapport as featured in the Fenman training manual; The Twenty-first Century Leader