I am currently working on building relationships with my org. I have reached out to an MD to connect, someone who I will eventual be peers with (1.5 years) and I’d like to develop that peer relationship now. Any suggestions for how to go about it, approach, questions etc?

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Are you or them new? What’s the difference in tenure? Why did you reach out to them? :)

Cool! So generally beyond the potential who they are and what they like to do outside of work, these questions are great:

- what works great in our team that you’d like to be intentional in keeping?
- what are you most excited about this year?
- what’s the main challenge that my role and function can help you with? (For people outside your team: same thing but frame it as “my team” since it might require a bigger effort)
- what would be a quick win?
- who else should I speak to? (You can also ask why)

The idea here is gain rapport by starting with excitement and what’s good, then go into challenges - both big rocks and quick wins (quick wins more important in your transition because they build on your reputation in the new role), and then a natural direction to the next person :)

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