What Changed Jim Rohn’s life?
May 19, 2009 by Kenneth Kwan
Filed under BNI Education
During our Personal Development Night (the first wed of the month), we listened to Jim Rohn’s Teachings about Personal Development. He shares how learning about sales and marketing has changed his life and earned him a lot of money. People pay a lot of money to listen to him, but I got access to his materials for the price of a cup of coffee a day!
Here are some important principles that apply to your business and life:
1. Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living, but profits make you a fortune!
2. Use stories to share with your friends. They are impactful and touches the hearts of people. Personal stories are great because people usually remember stories.
3. The Magic of Part-Time is a great recruiting tool for MLMers. Eg, I earn xxx from this part time job. or This vacation was paid for by my part time job. If you earn another $1000 from a full time job, nobody wants to know about it, but if you earn $1000 from a part time job, everyone wants a piece of it!
4. Its not what happens that determines your life future, its what you do that determines your life future.
5. Opportunity is always mixed with Difficulty.
6. For things to change, I have to change.
7. Don’t wish it was easiler, wish you were better.
Don’t wish for less challenges, wish you were wiser
8. If you do something enough, a ratio will appear- The law of averages always appear. (Useful for sales people to know)
9. I make up for numbers for what I lack in skill.
10. To Achieve Greatness- Service to Many leads to Greatness.
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The Strength of a BNI Chapter Lies in A Strong Tripod (Part 2 of 3)
May 15, 2009 by Phoon Kok Hwa
Filed under BNI Education
1. Learn
2. Do
3. Teach
It is thus the responsibility of every member to learn and know the system, then do what is expected and finally be able to teach the next member on what he has internalised. Along the way, it is also important to continue to innovate so that collectively we build a dynamic system and not a static system.
The Strength of BNI Renaissance Lies in A Strong Tripod (1 of 3)
May 6, 2009 by Phoon Kok Hwa
Filed under BNI Education
Most of you must be wondering what has the success of Renaissance chapter got to do with a tripod? As a chapter, we must be doing something right to be the most magnetic chapter in Singapore. Our modest achievements today is only possible because as a chapter, we have been focussing on building strong tripods. A tripod can only stand firmly when each of its three legs are strong and of equal length. If any of the legs are weak or short, the structure will be unstable or lopsided and whatever sits on top of the tripod will collapse or slide down.
If you imagine the tripod to be supporting the entire chapter sitting on top, the legs has to withstand the weight or we will all be in trouble. And as you know, the weight is increasing week after week.
The purpose of this article is just to share my own observations so that every member of Renaissance can reflect on it. The three legs of a tripod which I am going to share is leadership, systems, members.
1. Leadership
From the time the chapter was set up in 6 June 2007, the founding members have decided and intended to make strong leadership a hallmark of Renaissance. By leadership, I am not only referring only to the Leadership Team, but support committee heads and also power team leaders. The importance of strong leadership in delivering the vision of the chapter cannot be understated. This is especially so today when our chapter is getting bigger and more diversified and members are very talented and each having different agendas. The role of the leaders at all levels is to put the focus of our chapter back to the reason of our existence and to galvanise, motivate and inspire team players to set aside our differences and to shoot for the same goal. History has shown that many a great BNI chapters which had their fair share of glorious days in the past, started on the journey of decline when leaders chosen could not lead their team effectively. If I use the example of the leadership team, many BNI chapters feel that the leadership team is not that important cos’ their role is just to sit at front of the chapter and conduct weekly meeting. The team will carry the baton for 6 months and then another set of leaders will carry on doing the same thing. As such, many chapters failed to put their ablest members or the ablest members did not come forward to serve in the leadership team, only to discover that things started to fall apart and when the decay is allowed to go on for 6 months, trust me, the chapter will never be the same again. Those who have served in Renaissance LT will know that the expectation of serving in the LT is high and the work is never easy. We take pains to go all the way to identify and groom leaders for the LT as part of succession planning. Similarly, whenever committee heads or power team heads are chosen, we have to make sure that they are the best fit for the job. The seriousness we pay towards leadership has to be a tradition of Renaissance to ensure our continued growth for the next 10, 100 years. In fact, this applies to any organisation. As such, it is critical that members can step up when called upon to serve or better still, to volunteer their service in different capacities if they know they have what it takes. This, without a doubt, truly epitomises the spirit of Givers’ Gain.