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Posts tagged "rapport" within Fitnovatives Blog

The Person in the Person-ality

By Michael Mantell on Friday, September 07, 2012


Understanding a client’s unique personality is essential for establishing rapport, and to help our trainers, ACE has created a Fitness Personality Quiz that determines and assess clients’ predominant personality styles. Check out what ACE Senior Fitness Consultant Dr. Michael Mantell has to say about his personal experience while taking the quiz, and how it can serve as a useful tool during your ACE-based assessment.




Rapport: The Secret Ingredient to Career Success

By Michael Mantell on Friday, August 24, 2012


Knowing how to connect with your clients in a way that caters to their personal styles can build the foundation for a healthy, lifelong relationship. Learn from ACE Senior Fitness Consultant Dr. Michael Mantell as he discusses the importance of rapport and the role it plays in career success.




Your Client’s Got Personality…Reading It Accurately?

By Michael Mantell on Friday, June 24, 2011


It’s been said that the most important element of communication is to hear what isn’t being spoken. When it comes to the all important ingredient of building trust (visceral) and credibility (intellectual) during the rapport building phase of creating a healthy client-trainer alliance, you would do well to rely on Jimi Hendrix’ adage, “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”




Creating Rapport: The Doorway into an Effective, Enduring, Training Relationship

By Michael Mantell on Friday, June 10, 2011


Rapport with clients is necessary for designing effective exercise programs of the ACE IFT model. Understanding the psychological and emotional needs and characteristics of clients forms the base upon which to build this rapport.