Being part of a BNI chapter is a unique opportunity. Where else do you get the chance to form a close bond – to work as a team in multiple areas – with a group of other independent businesses?
But so often we waste it by taking the easiest route, which is human nature after all. [...]
Are you responsible?
Are you a responsible person?
Life gets a lot easier when we accept responsibility for everything that happens to us.
By accepting responsibility for our life and everything that happens in it, we remove blame. Blame is a cancer of the human spirit. By blaming ‘others’ for our misfortunes, we make ourselves helpless to [...]
Well, no, not exactly…
However BNI has a lot of similarity to a team sport.
Confused?
Well look at it this way, your BNI meeting is your team ‘training’, that Wednesday night you used to work away with your rugby or netball team to be better for Saturday. You learn about your team members, see how you all [...]
“Business in Christchurch is my focus,” says Rob Bakker, the recently appointed BNI New Zealand regional director for the city.
Rob has seen what BNI can do for business, and is passionate about the country’s largest referral networking organisation which has 2,600 members nationwide.
Having learnt a few business lessons the hard way when he [...]
Denise Robinson has a long history of assessing others’ needs and then meeting them – a quality that will stand her in good stead as a newly appointed director for BNI in Dunedin.
With a track record in hospitality and conferences, she became involved in the real estate industry in the mid-nineties. Faced with the many opportunities [...]
