Episode 513: Creating a Great Chapter Culture (Ask Ivan) - a podcast by Dr. Ivan Misner

Synopsis

This week’s Ask Ivan question comes from Kalyan in India:

I’m the mentor coordinator for my chapter. I want to see a culture in my chapter where members watch each others’ backs for performance, where members push each other regularly, so each member feels cared for and wanted. I want a culture that transcends BNI policies and brings together togetherness and ownership. How do I do that?

Creating a great chapter culture is a journey, not a destination. It won’t happen overnight. To create a truly great BNI chapter, your members need to embrace all of BNI’s Core Values:



* Givers Gain

* Building Relationships

* Lifelong Learning

* Traditions + Innovation

* Positive Attitude

* Accountability

* Recognition



Watch this series of short videos on BNI’s Core Values for more insight on how to create a great chapter culture



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Complete Transcript of Episode 513 –

Priscilla:

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Official BNI Podcast, brought to you by the Networking for Success Channel on YouTube, which features Dr. Ivan Miser and many other networking experts. I am Priscilla Rice, and I am coming to you from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkeley, California. I am joined on the phone today by the Founder and the Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner. Hello, Ivan, how are you and where are you?

Ivan:

I am doing great, Priscilla and I am pretty near Austin speaking at an event that is being run by Alex Mandosa. Alex is a good friend of mine and of BNI and I am speaking at his event. I am doing an Ask Ivan question, and as you mentioned in the introduction, we now have a contact section here on their podcast. If you have a question, send it in. I will be happy to answer as many as I can. I can’t answer everybody’s question, but I will answer as many as possible.

Today’s question, and I am got probably going to get his name wrong here. Kalyan isn’t I believe how it is pronounced. He is from India. He says, “Hello, sir. I am a big fan of yours.” Thank you so much. I appreciate that. “I am the mentor coordinator of my chapter and my question is I want to see a culture in my chapter where members watch each other’s backs for performance, where members push each other regularly, where each member feels cared for and wanted. I want such a culture that transcends BNI policies and brings togetherness and ownership. How do I do that?”

That’s a great question. I really appreciate that. So here is the answer. First of all creating culture in an organization that in international like BNI, all the way down to the chapter, creating culture in a chapter is a journey not a destination. You can’t get there overnight so be patient and here are the things that you want to do.

First, I am going to have a link in this podcast to all the videos about core values, we have seven core values and I have an introduction video so there are eight different videos and they are short, they are all roughly five minutes. Each one of them will talk about the things that I am going to talk to you about right now.

Remember that culture takes time. So if you want to have an awesome chapter, work towards living the core values of BNI. Of course we all know, I believe virtually every member knows the principle core value of BNI and that is the philosophy of givers gain. It is the idea that if I am here to help you, you will help me. We will all do better as a result of it.

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