Our Social World Introduction Sociology

Have you ever questioned your introduction skills? If not, you ought to since making a proper introduction is a form of business etiquette and sets the tone for how others will understand you. Learning proper introductions not only enhances your business savvy but boosts your self-confidence.

Four years ago, I was meeting with my boss, awaiting our guest. As our guest arrived, I escorted her to meet the boss. I’m an astute business professional who has worked with U.S. Senators, dignitaries, and CEOs; however, at this moment of introduction, all selfassurance flew out the window. They were both VIPs in the world of business so who do I introduce first: man or woman, boss or guest, older or younger, tall or short?

Honestly, it was all a glaze as I failed to make a proper introduction while sentiment like a dried up raisin in the sun. At that moment, I vowed to improve my business savvy and learn how to make a proper introduction to exude competency and confidence. Making a proper introduction demonstrates your level of acumen and respect for others.

Like the old adage goes, “You never get a second prospect to make a good basi impression,” which includes making a proper introduction. When you lose your self-confidence, it’s conveyed in your posture, facial expressions, intonation, attitude, and demeanor, so even if humans never tell you, which they won’t, they recognize your errors and lack of confidence.

To refrain from sentiment socially awkward and to present a poised, polished, and professional effigy upon meeting and making introductions, here are eight guidelines to follow:

1. Introduce people in business based on rank, not gender or age.
2. In business, the client, guest or visitor outranks the boss or co-worker and must be introduced first.
3. Women and men must stand when introduced. Always smile and maintain eye contact.
4. Shake a woman and man’s hand the same, straight up and down. Extend a good, firm (not painful) handshake to exhibit respect, trust, and acceptance.
5. Keep the forms of address equivalent to keep away from differential treatment or the aspect of preferential treatment.
6. Never use an honorific such as Ms., Mr., or Dr. to introduce yourself.
7. Demonstrate professionalism and believability by without doubt or question stating your full name.
8. Do not call a person by his or her original name when meeting or being introduced for the introductory time. Use their title and last name until invited to be on a first-name basis.

Maintaining a competitory edge in the business world differentiates you from the competition. The most indispensable counsel I may give you is to keep learning and heightening your business and social achievements to boost your success with etiquette.

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About the Author

Jeanne H. Ballantine is professor of sociology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She received an MA from Columbia University and a PhD from Indiana University, with a special line of work in sociology of education. She has been instructing and writing for more than 30 years and has written or coauthored assorted texts, including Sociology of Education: A Systematic Analysis, Teaching Sociology of Education, Sociological Footprints, and Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology. She has also published in other areas, including gender and instructing of sociology, and has been an active fellow member of sociology of education organizations, including the ASA Section on Sociology of Education, the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee on Sociology of Education. She has won a great deal of awards, including the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award.

Keith Roberts, Professor of Sociology at Hanover College, has not only won instructing awards, but has been honored by various sociological associations for “Distinguished Contributions to Teaching”-including the ASA’s 2010 Award He has published on instructing and conducted workshops around the country. He is a fellow member of the Departmental Resources Group of the ASA, which amidst other activenesses involves consulting work with departments of sociology on curriculum and on instructing issues. He is the co-author of Religion in Sociological Perspective, Fifth Edition (SAGE, ©2012), Our Social World (SAGE, ©2011) and Our Social World Condensed (SAGE, ©2010), and a monograph on Writing in the Undergraduate Sociology Curriculum. He is active in the ASA Section on Teaching and Learning, and for the past 21 years has coordinated and lead workshops for high school sociology teachers. Keith has taught a rather wide range of sociology courses at a two-year campus, at a Research 1 University, and more not long back at a very competitory little liberal arts college.

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