When building rapport with stakeholders, bring your actual human self. In one product job, coach Melissa Appel created a monthly “Women in Warehousing” brown bag lunch. There was no agenda, just an opportunity to connect. With the natural work-related lunch banter, Melissa often learned valuable new information. More importantly, she developed relationships that made work easier.
Other ways to build office rapport? See Chapter 3 Rapport in Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders.
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Artist Eva Lottchen was at the Product at Heart conference, where I spoke last month:
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It Depends
Coach Phil Hornby will lead a CPO online discussion on It Depends: Making Product Decisions in Context, Thursday, October 10 @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET. Register.