Human is a social animal and it is not possible to leave alone. Same goes for our office life. We daily go to office and we spent more than 60% of daily life at our office. So it becomes important for us to have good relationship with our coworkers/colleague to have a healthy work life. Good relationships at office not only increase our liking towards office and its people but it also improves our productivity. Positive vibes at our working place motivate us to continue with the office for the longer period and make the working environment more energetic. Here are few tips of building rapport with the people around at office:

• Greet everyone with a smile: It is really vital for an employee to greet everyone with energetic voice and a smiling face adds more value to the greeting. When we say everyone, it means everyone you cross the path with. One should not discriminate of designation, gender, tenure and department. Be it the office boy or the manager, everyone deserve the same respect.
• Be observant: One should have good observing skills so that you can easily understand the mood of their colleague. One can behave according to the mood of the colleague. It will help us to build deep and close relationship with the people.
• Listen to others: Listening to others paves the way to a strong relationship. Listening helps to understand someone better. Once we start understanding someone better, we ought to talk to them in a more personalized manner. It also mold our behavior towards them based on the talk we had with them. Other person also find a good and understanding friend in us.
• Mirroring: Mirroring also helps one to create good rapport as one we are mirroring notices that we have a lot of things common which brings us close to them. Mirroring doesn’t mean hiding your original self but improvise yourself as per their body language and words so that they find it easy to talk to us.
• Show your concerns: If someone is facing any issue or problem, it is always good to show your concern to that person. Empathize with the situation and show that you are there for the emotional support. One should understand the difference between Empathy and Sympathy.
• Be helpful: One should be helpful in nature and try to help people who are stuck in some sort of issues and problem. One should get indulged into help in the issues s/he is competent into. Advice without knowledge is very dangerous.
• Socialize a bit: Socialization is one of the way to build good rapport with the colleagues. Socializing doesn’t mean gossiping around but people need those colleagues who don’t limit the talk to office work. Some talk of personal life can also be done. Wishing festivals, birthday, anniversary or congratulating someone for personal achievement can be done for socializing.