Building Relationships

Humans are social creatures. Building bonds and connecting with others is a core human need. This is certainly true in the workplace where robust social connections can increase motivation, make it easier to get work done and facilitate career progression. Research also tells us that good quality relationships can keep us healthier and improve cognitive function. However, building those relationships can seem intimidating to an analyst at the beginning of their career.
This course explores how to form connections with those we work with, the skills of building rapport and creating authentic relationships.

Course Content

The foundation – creating rapport

The value of making people feel important.
Using empathy to connect.

People like people like themselves

The importance of preference.
Understanding your own meta-program preferences.
Recognising and responding to difference.

Communicating to connect

Bypassing small-talk and having meaningful conversations by asking great questions.
Adapting your listening style according to the situation.

Auditing your relationships

Using the Core Concerns as a lens and a lever to sense check your relationships.

Course Approach

CHALLENGE

Appreciate that relationships are essential to a fulfilled life and a thriving organisation.

CREATE

Build rapport and find ways to connect with people you have little in common with.
An understanding of how rapport is built.

CHANGE

Adapt your communication style, working style or listening style to adapt to your audience.

Embedding Success

Post programme activities to support the transfer of learning and building of habits.

CHALLENGE

Share the listening styles with a trusted colleague. Which do they think you use most often? When does this style serve you well and when might you need to be flexible in your listening style?

CREATE

Find opportunities to ask meaningful questions to the people you work with. Take advantage of being early for a meeting (virtual or otherwise), walking to get coffee or sharing an elevator ride to learn more about the people you work with.

CHANGE

Before you hit send on the next important email you write, pause and consider the preferences of the recipient. What kind of impact might your email make? How can you tailor it more appropriately to your audience?

100%

of our clients would recommend Alpha to a colleague or peer

90%

of a cohort was promoted within 2 years after participating in an Alpha course.

96%

of participants felt more confident in their role, following an Alpha commercial leadership course.

Why study with Alpha?

Innovation and creativity born from experience

We are thought leaders in instructional and learning journey design and holistic solution architects. We have extensive finance and investments experience combined with skills application to deliver performance improving results. We develop immersive learning environments that maximize time to productivity, support talent retention and added value to improving quality of hires.

Knowledge Exchange Evangelists

We are focused on mining the embedded organisational intellectual capital for the benefit of the next generation. We create and curate best in class practice gathered from our experience with the leading financial institutions. We design our programmes with the end in mind – what results are you trying to achieve with this intervention? What metrics will we set ourselves to achieve that?

Generation Proof

Quality and innovation, using current market and industry best practices, have made us a trusted partner in delivering dynamic and motivating training for the financial and capital markets. Our programmes are generation proof and responsive to evolving learner needs and styles. Our solutions use a multi-stakeholder engagement strategy that expands beyond relationships between the learner and learning provider. We create connections with managers, peers and the wider business to drive impactful return on investment..

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The team are so friendly and pleasant to work with, everyone is very professional and keen to help us. Building a relationship over the past couple of years helps us to feel like the Alpha team are even more able to understand our needs and provide more proactive solutions.