Leadership Team training

16/3/08

This week saw the new teams for April being trained and as always there are those members who when they agree to be on the new team then don’t understand the need to attend training. The reason for not needing to is always the same: because they have been to the training before.

Even if you were to discount the fact that the training is always improving, that new procedures are announced, that members share their ideas and worries and these are discussed, that everyone in the new team has heard the same information at the same time and so are all working from a common knowledge base, what about the fact that this is TEAM training?

Everyone is part of the team and there is more to the training than just training. It’s about team building and, exactly as in your chapter, you need to take part and show your commitment to the team. So the fact that you may have been to the training before may mean that you have some idea of what your job is all about, although I can guarantee you that you won’t know it all, but more importantly missing the training gives out the wrong signal to the new team. Because I think what it says is that you are not really fully part of the team. You will do your job, but not a great deal more.

BNI is all about building relationships and you can’t build relationships if you don’t take part and work on them. For a Leadership Team to work really well every one of the members must work on building that team.

To all those that have trained this week, work hard on your team and your chapter will reap the rewards.

And don’t forget to have some fun. Your six months will be up before you know it!