Episode 983: Passport + Mentors = Retention

Synopsis

Just stepped down from your chapter’s leadership team? Mark Graber wants you as a mentor for the BNI Passport to Success program. The Passport Program is an engagement tool for BNI members and a retention tool for BNI chapters. It brings together everything a member should be doing to get the most out of BNI.

Why Should You Mentor?

• Being a mentor keeps both you and the new member actively involved in BNI.
• Going through the Passport Program again deepens your own relationships and networking skills.
• Growing the chapter through by onboarding quality members generates more business for everyone.

Links

• Visit Mark’s region, BNI British Columbia.
• Listen to Episode 922: The Power Beneath the Surface.
• Listen to Episode 942: Engaging Longtime Members.
• Read The Networking Mentor.

The Official BNI Podcast is sponsored by Misner Audio Programs.

Complete Transcript of Episode 983

Priscilla:Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Official BNI Podcast. I’m Priscilla Rice, and I’m coming to you from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkeley, California, and I’m 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. I’m in Austin preparing for the [BNI] Global Convention in Monaco, and the [BNI] French [Conference], also in Monaco. So I’ll be there later this week. And going to Convention is always a blast.

Priscilla: Mm hmm. Sounds fun.

Ivan:I have a good friend on. This is his first time on BNI Podcast. I’m a little surprised it’s his first time. Mark has always got great content. Mark Graber is [BNI] Executive Director for Vancouver Island, Lower Mainland Southeast, Lower Mainland West, Northern Interior — that’s a long description — in British Columbia, Canada. He was a high school mathematics teacher, which I didn’t know, for 15 years, and a lecturer at Curtin University in Perth [Australia] in the business school for 13 years. He has three children. Sophie, I can’t pronounce the next name, is it Lachlan (LATCH-lann)?

Mark:Lachlan (LOCK-luhn).

Ivan:Lachlan, okay, and Ellie. Mark joined BNI as a member in 2004 in Perth, and he’s developing learning management systems primarily with Moodle. [He was] on the Inaugural Innovation Task Force for BNI under Graham Weihmiller; he was 10 years on the Founder’s Circle. He helped to develop BNI TV on Y