2025-2026 BNI Select Roles & Goals
Excerpts from the September 25, 2025 Chapter MeetingDuring 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
Power of One Categories
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.
What's the Point?
The numbers speak for themselves!
Where are we headed?
OKRs are better than Goals
Objectives & Key Results
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?
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.
Chapter of Choice
These are all things that should help us become the “Chapter of Choice” – tracking them should help us measure our progress.
Excellent Experience
Strengthening our chapter in these four specific, measurable, ways should help us deliver an excellent experience for each BNI Select member.
"Year One" Experience
Making the Year One Experience a Priority means:
- A personal investment in helping, FROM EACH MEMBER
- 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
Grow to 35 Members
With this as an Objective, rather than a Goal, we can approach it by setting our sight on specific mechanisms that can help us reach this objective. By reaching these measurable Key Results, we should be able to achieve this objective. We know it’s aspirational – these things might not get us there. But we’re going to try and see if they do. We will have to 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.
