Hier erfahren Sie, wie Sie sich als Praktikant in Ihrem Unternehmen das Vertrauen und den Respekt der leitenden Stakeholder verdienen können.

1. Be a go-getter, not a gatekeeper. Show initiative by seeking out additional tasks and projects. Don't wait to be assigned work. 2. Embrace all tasks, not just the glamorous ones. Recognize that seemingly mundane tasks like documentation, automation, or team building can have a big impact. Be willing to jump in and help wherever needed. 3. Earn trust within your team first. Show respect to your colleagues and actively seek their guidance. Building strong relationships with your team will pave the way for gaining the trust of senior stakeholders.

Want to win over senior stakeholders? Start by speaking their language - literally! Mirror their communication style and show genuine interest in their priorities and challenges. Ask insightful questions and offer to help with even the smallest tasks - it's like bringing them their favorite coffee, but less caffeinated! Consistent, polite, and professional interactions are the secret sauce to building a strong working relationship and becoming their go-to trusted advisor.

To effectively and efficiently build rapport with senior stakeholders, authenticity before everything, then focusing on clear, respectful communication and showing genuine interest in their perspectives. Start by doing thorough research on their interests and background to personalize your interactions. Consistently engage with them by providing valuable insights and updates relevant to their goals and the broader organizational objectives. Demonstrate reliability by meeting deadlines and keeping promises. Additionally, acknowledge their expertise and contributions, which fosters mutual respect. Regular, meaningful communication tailored to their communication style can significantly strengthen rapport.

Getting to know stakeholders goals, needs, expectations, challenges, and what their vision of success looks like will help you form a solid foundation a strong working relationship. Understanding these things will help give you direction and clarity about how to support, communicate, engage and influence them as well as gaining insights into how they can in turn support and help influence things that can help you meet your goals and achieve results for the company.

Building rapport is indeed based on the right people, at the right time with the right message consistently. Miss one of those factors and you risk key partners feeling excluded, uniformed or uninvolved hurting rapport which then in turn even harder to build up again.

Carefully show initiative. I use the word carefully because you also do not want to overstep your boundaries. Taking initiative in areas where you can add value is another welcome way to win over senior stakeholders

Seeking feedback from your stakeholders not only creates a sense of true involvement for all parties involved but also provides excellent perspective form then individual points of view to take onward in the workflow. You can always learn something from everyone even if it’s how not to do something 😉

Networking wisely can help you build a sincere pool of resources for feedback, quality connections and future opportunities. The key to successful networking is sincerity and and understanding of mutual beneficial intent. Networking for the mere purpose of ‘getting up the ladder’ or personal gain will quickly be seen as individualistic and insincere, so make sure to connect with people who can learn from and support at the same time.

In my experience the key to success is getting the work done, focusing on quality and being consistent. Most importantly, remember, you are an intern, nobody is expecting that you know how to do the work, it’s ok to ask questions and seek clarity.

As an intern, first and foremost look for internships in your preferred career area. Second, be present and be willing to put that extra effort and learn! Third, dont overcommit and under-deliver. If you do commit to a time, stick to it. Fourth, you may not be expected to solve a problem, but it would always be good if you put in some thought, offer potential alternatives and share the same with your stakeholder. Dont worry if it is way off the mark, this will show that you have put in effort and are going back with options. You never know, a lot of complex issues have really simple solutions and yours may hit the mark. These will help build your credibility. You will now be able to network better & build lasting relationships.

Be clear on expectations: strong senior stakeholder management is based on management expectations at all levels and delivering on promises. By doing so consistently the relationship will grow and the workflow will benefit accordingly. The right people, involved at the right time with the right message consistently.