Leadership Teams - Do you lead?

24/11/10

As a member of your chapter's Leadership Team one of your responsibilities is to lead and, from time to time, it surprises me that some teams don’t understand this. After all, the job description is in the title.

It can be in anything: bringing visitors, bringing referrals, getting to the chapter early, having One2Ones, in fact everything that makes a great chapter and earns the members more money.

And, it was something I noticed again at a recent workshop. Attendance at the BNI workshops is crucial if, as a member, we are to achieve the very best we can from our membership (I’ve talked about this before). A Leadership Team spends a great deal of time, along with the Events Co-ordinator, asking members to attend them and telling the members how important it is to our success.

But, then they don’t attend themselves!

The reason I noticed the missing Leadership Team members at this particular workshop was that out of the five chapters attending there were only Leadership Team members from one chapter.

So, how about this for an idea?

If you are a member of a Leadership Team ensure that at least one of you goes to every workshop in the future. It will build your credibility, give more weight to your request when asking others to attend, increase the numbers going to the workshops, and, guess what?

Increase the amount of business passed in your chapter!