BNI HAPPENINGS — New Zealand
A Blockbuster night for BNI-NZ
November's Blockbuster training night in Auckland proved to be a great experience for BNI-NZ. Laura Hurren, executive director, of BNI-UK, and Darryl Buchanan, regional director NZ, delivered a unique interactive training program on how to become a Master Networker.
They touched on treating BNI as a business not a club (and the differences between both) and reiterated that networking is a verb not a noun.
Items discussed included executing the fundamentals flawlessly, putting yourself into play to maximize what we have within BNI, and having self-belief and understanding on how your BNI team can benefit you.
Laura and Darryl demonstrated how to get people in chapters to understand the services of their business by first understanding how to present by using a "Fou Fou stick." (A Fou Fou stick is an instrument of sorts that Darryl says is too difficult to explain in writing, as "seeing is believing." If any readers want to know just what a Fou Fou stick is, he says they will have to invite him to one of their functions—or visit him in New Zealand!)
Using a sporting example, they showed that your BNI team is the best one to be on by comparing a basketball team to a rugby team and how each player (member of a chapter and leadership team) plays a significant part in the success of the business.
Submitted by Graham Southwell.
BNI HAPPENINGS — Malaysia
Malaysia gets gold
Jasmin Mohd Zain of JM Zain Associates became Malaysia's first Gold Club Badge member. Zain is a member of Ampang Chapter, KL, and has been a member since February 2001.
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