All right, we're talking about introductions,
and I want to mention to you that gender is
really irrelevant in the order in which you
introduce people to each other. What is relevant
is that there actually is an order that you're
going to follow and I'm going to talk about
it right now. And remember you always use
first and last names when you're introducing
people, that's absolutely mandatory. When
you are introducing people in a business setting,
you always want to introduce younger to older.
Very important. With peers, let's say everybody
has the same title, they all work in the accounting
department, no one's ahead of any department,
no one has necessarily been there any longer
than anyone else, they just are peers. Peer
to peer, it doesn't matter. Even if there
is somebody that's older in that department,
if they are not necessarily a supervisor,
not necessarily anything special, then it's,
this is Jim Davis, this is Scott Morrow, this
is... just introduce peer to peer. And then
last, you always want to introduce junior
to senior, and I'm not necessarily talking
about Bob Riff Junior, I'm talking about the
junior executive Steve Randall to the senior
executive, Stacey Furrow. So that's real important.
Something though that you want to make sure
you double check when you're preparing to
do introductions for business, check about
culture. Now this goes for us here in America,
standard business meetings, we're meeting
new people, we're doing business with other
American companies. But when you start bringing
in other countries into the mix, sometimes
they have a little bit different order in
which they introduce people to each other.
So if you're bringing in a group of people
from Asia or Ireland or the UK or wherever
it is, I strongly recommend that you check
their introduction order.