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Mentoring at the Chapter Level
Mentor Guidelines
Thank you for agreeing to be a Mentor for our newest member, __________________________.
The purpose of the BNI mentoring program is to provide new members with a Coaching that results in
success in our chapter. We want to provide each new member with support and information that might
otherwise take months to acquire. As a mentor, you have made an important commitment to the new
member and the chapter as a whole.
The mentor/mentee relationship initially lasts five months, unless circumstances dictate otherwise.
During the first three months, you and your mentee continue to work together to help each other be more
successful. The last two months allow the mentee to further tune the skills learned from the mentor.
What follows is a sort of course curriculum to provide an outline of the information you should
be discussing with your mentee over the course of your relationship. At the outset, you should schedule
three meetings with your mentee, approximately once every two weeks. At each of the meetings, you
should cover the following important issues:
Session I: The Basics - First meeting
(Within one week of induction if possible, within two weeks at most)
1. Make sure your mentee knows that he or she can come to you with questions or concerns
whenever needed that you are there to help him or her succeed.
2. Go over the dates of MSP, and pick out a time for the new member to attend. Attendance is
mandatory; the member s first eight-minute presentation will not be scheduled until after that
have attended MSP.
3. Explain the Leadership Team positions and who is on them. These terms are for six months and
they start on April 1 and October 1 of each year. Encourage them to become part of the LT.
4. Tell the new member who the BNI Directors are and how to contact them.
5. Review the new member packet and the brochure in it.
6. Make sure that their card portfolio is filled with all members cards and they know how to use it
7. Set a date for them to have listened to the BNI Orientation c.d. by Ivan Misner
8. Talk about the importance of wearing your BNI name badge at every meeting and also at
non-BNI functions.
9. Make sure that the chapter business card box has plenty of the new member s cards, and discuss
how important it is to keep filled.
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