How do your Visitors Feel?

Whilst carrying out the Leadership Team training for the new Bay of Islands chapter this week – one of the areas we focused on was the importance of making your visitors feel “welcome and wanted”.  I have had several visitors tell me that they did not feel comfortable in the chapter that they visited.  They [...]

BNI Blog – update

  Fional Powell – who moderates the blog on behalf of BNI has just sent me an email with an analysis of the first six months.  I thought that it was rather impressive and wanted to share this with you all
-          Launched end of February (6 months ago) 
-          3,048 Unique visitors
-          6,715 visits [...]

Record Breaking Chapter opens in Bay of Islands

  Two weeks ago an information breakfast was held at the Keri Keri RSA club for a possible new chapter.  With Keri Keri being a four and a half hour drive – I told the organisers that they would need to have at least 15 signed applications before we could move forwards.   Well – a [...]

BNI Capital Connections Chapter

It only took Brendon Ojala (President) and Chris Wheatley (Vice President) a few short weeks to pull together the core group of business people needed to launch the new Wellington based BNI Capital Connections chapter.
Brendon a Mortgage Broker and Chris an independent Property Manager had been aware of the opportunities presented by BNI membership but [...]

Responding to Good/Bad News

You may have read the interview I posted to this blog  a few weeks back with  Bill Sherman who has a Social Capital blog – Aha Moments.  This posting today from Bill is particularly pertinent and I thought that I would take the liberty of sharing it with you all on this blog: 
There’s an old saying [...]