It can be extremely intimidating introducing yourself in a professional
setting. We all want to make a really good first impression. In this video, I'm
gonna give you some tips to making you introduce yourself professionally a
breeze. One of the key ways to make yourself more professional is to wow
your boss! Stay tuned to the end of this video
because I have something really cool for you which is a really great guide on how
to do just that. Hi, if you're new here, welcome. My name is
Adriana Girdler and I'm a business productivity specialist. Having a very
clear concise professional introduction that you can say right away is important.
As a professional meeting facilitator I have seen my fair share of really bad
intros so let's get started on how you can have a super professional
introduction. Be a person, not a machine. Sometimes in business with introduction
it is really easy to get nervous and when we get nervous we become very much,
Hi, my name is Mary, I'm from HR. Now I know we don't get really like that, that
automated, but we get so focused on just that. My name, what do I do, boom, I'm done
and I can walk away. What I want you to do is I want you to bring something
really personal and people really want to know who you are. It's about
connectivity, that's part of the introduction because it's not just in
meetings, it's about someone you just met within the organization, it could be a
client, could be, it could be a supplier, whatever that may be so this is what I
do: Hi, my name is Adriana Girdler, I'm a
professional speaker and a business productivity consultant. I help
organizations and people do what they do, better. One thing that I love to share
with you is we just got this amazing puppy! Her name is Yoko and I love her to
bits. If you can do something like that, relatable, you'll be amazed at how many
people come up to you afterwards even just to talk about your new dog but what
a great way to connect. How do you introduce yourself in a professional
setting? Let me know in the comments below, I'd love to meet you. Focus on the
other person. What do I mean by that in an introduction? Well, let me tell you, it
is really really easy that when we get nervous we give our introduction and we
continue, we don't even ask about the other person, so what I'd like for you to
do is, as you're giving an introduction, be short and sweet,
do something personal and then afterwards stop, ask a question to the
person that you're speaking to. Say, so how are you? Can you tell me a little bit
about you? You'll be amazed, that's just that two-way conversation, how it really
opens up conversation because I'm sure you can recall times when someone
introduced themselves to you and they just continue to talk and didn't even
ask anything about you, how did you feel? Probably like, hmm, didn't even want to
know anything about me, not a great feeling. So don't go down that road. Trust
that you are enough. When we're introducing ourselves sometimes to
someone for the very first time, they may be really high up, we want to impress the
heck out of them because they're really important so what do we do? We rattle off
our CV, well they don't want to hear about your resume that's just that, it's
what you're doing, that's not the point of the introduction. It's to get a
connection, so don't worry about that, trust that you're enough, have a
conversation, explain who you are, explain how you're gonna be helping out,
but don't rattle off everything. You know how you impress people? Not with the
introduction of your CV but you impress them by actually doing work and
accomplishing things and being accountable. I have some really great
videos on that so check it out. For sure trust in yourself. Remember your business
cards. What? What's a business card? For your younger generation out there, you're
probably going, what the heck? People don't do business cards! You'll be
surprised. Business cards are still relevant. In fact, a lot of people who are
more senior up actually still use business cards. It's kind of part of the
culture. You introduce yourselves, you hand each other your business cards and
then by the way it's a great way to have all the contact information. Now I'm not
saying it's just about business cards, it is really good to have a set if you're
being introduced to a lot of people but there's other things like LinkedIn and
LinkedIn apps where you can actually swap information with people and you can
hook up with them on LinkedIn which is another way to get that information,
highly recommend you do those things ASAP when you meet somebody but here's a
little trick and technique that I do with a business card because I do both
by the way, is when I do get a business card on the back immediately I put the
date and how I met that person and anything of special note and interest
because it allows for me to remember them particularly eight months down
when I find their business card I'm like where was that again? So whether you use
a business card or electronic version of some sort, ensure that at the end of the day
you put all that critical information in there so that down the road you can
revisit it and spark your memory as to where you met that person. Now that you
know how to introduce yourself professionally and that people are gonna
remember you, I want you to wow your boss. Take a look at this amazing download
that you can get by going to the link below. Please like this video, subscribe
to my channel and share it with all the professionals at you know. I would love
to hear your introduction, please write it in the comment below. See you later!