At some point in your professional career you are going to have to stand up in front of a group of people and introduce yourself.  It might be at a formal networking event where everyone is going around the room and giving their “elevator speech”, or maybe it’s a professional conference where you are each introducing yourself during a seminar or a break-out session. Whatever the scenario, you are going to be standing in a room of strangers, telling them who you are.  And like it or not, they are going to make judgments about you based on how you introduce yourself.  They are going to decide how competent and skilled you are in your … [Read more...]