2025-2026 BNI Select Roles & Goals

Excerpts from the September 25, 2025 Chapter Meeting

During today’s meeting, we took some time to make sure that everyone in the chapter understands their leadership role when the new chapter year begins on October 1, 2025. We also looked at some data about the inputs that have the greatest impact on growing the chapter’s Thank You For Closed Business. During the Feature Presentation segment of the meeting, we looked at a vision for the chapter moving forward, as developed by the incoming Leadership Team, Aaron Rittmaster, Tara Comfort, and Brad Kaye.

Roles & Responsibilities

Growth is more than headcount

Look at the 5 categories measured by the Power of One Report

What percentage of total chapter members are in Green in each category? Points are assigned based on where in the range we fit.

Room to improve

We have no members in the Green in the Visitors category, so we can’t even squeeze out 1 point there!

And there’s no reason we can’t have at least 80% of members in the Green in 1-2-1s and CEUs.

What's the impact?

The top line here is based on the current BNI Select Power of One.

The Yellow line projects our TYFCB if we grew to 35 members (+8). but our Engagement Score was unchanged.
The Blue line projects our TYFCB if we stayed at 27 members, but increased our Engagement Score by 1 point per category (+5 total).
The Green line projects our TYFCB if we BOTH added eight members AND improved our Engagement Score by five points.

The numbers speak for themselves.

Where are we headed?

OKRs are better than Goals

O = Objective (What we want to achieve)

KR = Key Results – How can we achieve our objective? Does this measure provide obvious, credible evidence of success?

2025-2026 COMMITTED Objectives

These three priorities will shape our decision-making, as a group. We are committed to these objectives, so other concerns are secondary to achieving these objectives.

What can we do to make ourselves the "chapter of choice"?

Four Key Results that we should be tracking to measure our progress.

How to we deliver an EXCELLENT experience to each Member?

Answer: By strengthening our chapter in these four specific, measurable, ways.

What does it mean to prioritize "Year One" for new members?

A personal investment in helping
Emphasizing the importance of a faster-paced onboarding experience
Putting the onus on existing members to schedule 1-to-1s to introduce themselves to new members
Leveraging GAINS Exchange documents to help new members get up to speed
Maximize the reward for new members when they complete the onboarding process

2025-2026 ASPIRATIONAL Objective

That’s a net gain of 7 members, once Steven is official. It’s a stretch, because it means continuing to add members while fighting the average expected BNI attrition rate of .5 – 1.25 members lost every six months. We’ll need to nurture renewals and diversify our recruiting efforts to get there.