While I am no management consultant - there is a thing or two I've learnt about making a chapter grow and included in that is the importance of measuring your progress. Luckily - measuring your progress is just as useful for growing your business as it is for growing your BNI chapter. Herein lies the spiel.
Has anyone here tried to lose weight recently? Don't answer that. Whether you have or not -I think we all know it is a bit of a struggle. There are hundreds of ways to lose weight. From sea-food diets to Atkins diets - there seems to be a diet for every day of the week. Thankfully - the clever boffins at an American Iveay League University have done the hard work for us. We don't have to guess. They put a whole slew of techniques through their paces. Everything from just weighing yourself every morning to depriving yourself of dairy products.
Would you like to know the MOST successful technique of ALL tested?
It was simply weighing yourself. If you attempted to change nothing else in your diet but simply focused your attention on your weight every day for a few seconds - the weight would fall off.
Interesting - but what has that got to do with me. Well -as it happens - measuring yourself isn't just good for weight loss. It turns out that it works for pretty much any improvement you are trying to achieve. Peter Drucker claims "What gets measured gets done." and he is right.
Is there anything we are trying to improve as a chapter? [wait for them to respond - hopefully with the refrain of "growth"]. Great - well I have brought along something to help you improve your ability to invite visitors. Track it. I will leave this document here which is a way for you to track how well you are doing inviting-wise. If you use this sheet - and fill up all fifteen slots with people you have invited - you should have a new member at the end of it.
IF YOU FIND IT HARD TO INVITE VISITORS - THIS WILL HELP - and not just a little. A lot.
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