When talking about Rapport with someone who has not gone through the training, many people describe their experience process by process. We suggest sharing what you learned by telling people the benefits you received and demonstrating new personal and professional behaviors. Hold yourself accountable to be punctual, to speak your mind, to create a team, to lead with enthusiasm. Sharing this way gets people more excited about supporting you on your journey as they see the positive changes you made.

Below are specific ideas on how to prepare a nominee for class.

What do I say?
Tell your nominee that Rapport provides a series of challenges and processes that allow you to experience and practice leadership skills and behaviors instead of just talking about them. When you complete the course, you immediately apply leadership skills in your business and personal life. Your purpose is to create anticipation and excitement rather than apprehension, resistance or fear.

By all means, create anticipation.

•	Answer questions.
•	Be straightforward.
•	Share the competencies you worked on and the ones you are improving upon.
•	Refer to the core competencies listed earlier in the Creating a Breakthrough Culture guide and go through them one by one.
•	Make it clear that you are offering them an opportunity to learn, grow and change, not because they “need it,” because you believe in them and are interested in their success. Tell them that you also want them to be part of the team that will contribute to your company’s success.
•	Have a discussion about the goals, direction and vision/mission of the organization, and how this person can have a positive influence on them.
•	Talk about your company’s mission statement and let your nominee know they will be creating a “co-mission statement” within their role and responsibility and how they fit into the bigger mission of the company.
•	Ask them in which areas they can grow as a leader.
•	Write down their goals for work.
•	Tell them that the learning comes from the doing. They get to define what leadership means based on how they live their life and what they want out of it.
•	Explain that the goal is to take their leadership skills to their own next level. They will build on their individual strengths, uncover their talents and breakthrough barriers that hold them back from realizing their leadership potential.

Other helpful tools for preparing someone:

•	Go to the Rapport website.
•	Use Rapport's course brochure.
•	Review Rapport's current and past sustainability processes.
•	Call or contact your This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
•	Use Rapport's Creating a Breakthrough Culture guide.