Mini Workshop – Are You The Same?

This is a 2-3 minute activity that involves those at the meeting. You will need to read it through beforehand and be prepared. What you say out loud to the group is in larger type in bold.
The purpose of this workshop is to highlight the value of ongoing education in business.
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Ask the chapter the following [...]

Don’t make this mistake at your next networking event

If you were sitting in an important meeting with your biggest client and you got a text message, would you stop listening to your client and completely tune him out in order to respond to the text message?
What if you got a phone call . . . would you stop mid-presentation as you were pitching [...]

Lifting the lid on New Zealand’s unsung heroes – small businesses and what they do for their communities

DHL supports lifeguards and Telecom backs Barnardos, but what do the vast bulk of New Zealand business – the SMEs – do for charity and for the community?
BNI New Zealand believes SMEs are very involved in their local communities and that they are, in effect, the unsung heroes because they have no big corporate budgets [...]

Stamp out last minute 60 second presentations now

When somebody in your chapter stands up and delivers a 60 second presentation they’ve just thought up (they’re easy to recognise), you need to take them aside and have a chat – and if it’s you, well you know what to do…
If somebody is delivering their 60 second off the cuff, it means they’ve not [...]

What Do You Do?

This is a 2-3 minute activity that involves those at the meeting. You will need to read it through beforehand and be prepared. What you say out loud to the group is in larger type in bold.
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Ask the chapter the following question and repeat some of the responses.
When someone asks “what do you do?”, what [...]