Comments on: How to motivate your chapter to achieve its goals

By: Colin Kennedy

Colin Kennedy — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 02:53:13 +0000

Thanks Graham, Rob and Butch – It is always surprising, and pleasing, to see how innovative chapters and members are when it comes to creating tools that make the most of their BNI opportunities.

By: Butch Coetzee

Butch Coetzee — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 10:12:30 +0000

Thanks Colin,
Have to agree with you 100%, as they say a picture is worth a 1000 words.

What we have used with great effect here in the Eastern Cape of South Africa are the “Goal Boards” they get updated at every meeting during the VP’s report and are placed at the entrance and sign in tables of the Chapters venue so that Visitors can also see these statistics from the get go.
Here is a link to show what they look like slight modifications to fit in with your currency and anything else you would like to “display” if need be? Ours we have kept as is just with the most obvious changes.
http://polarispress.net/store/proddetail.php?prod=BNI_Goals

By: Rob Bakker

Rob Bakker — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 23:12:33 +0000

We’ve previously used the data projector/ plasma screen in the venue to have a rolling show of the basic goals and PALMS reports going in the background during the open networking and after the meeting. This is a great way to keep the chapters figures front and centre and is a bit more “dynamic” then just printed sheets.

By: Graham Southwell

Graham Southwell — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:43:13 +0000

Thanks Colin,
Another ‘visual cue’ is Thank You for Closed Business. This is a new initiative in NZ – we didn’t really get started on this until the start of this year, however we have the first of the $1m chapters coming through and guess what, it is exciting! Members are inspired, the chapters are becoming more business like – and as for visitors – well who wouldn’t want to join a chapter that is generating significant amounts of money for its members. Great article!