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Meeting Format
Meeting Procedures
President starts meetings promptly when Sgt. of Arms announces all cell phones and
pagers to off or silent mode.
(Hospitality Chair hands guest (s) sign in card(s) to President.)
President to stand when presiding over meeting.
President introduces him/her self and begins the meeting on time.
Meal instructions to be given to membership/guests so that ordering process may begin.
President asks member to lead Pledge of Allegiance.
President either reads or hands the Mission Statement to a member to read:
“Network Professionals is a select group of highly qualified men and women, one in each
professional category, who bond together for the sole purpose of helping each other
succeed in business by networking through the exchange of qualified business referrals.”
This chapter meets every______________at this location.
President explains the concept of Network Professionals:
- NPI is an international organization regionally headquartered
- We bring together serious minded men and women
- Each Chapter meets weekly for one hour and fifteen minutes
- Our primary purpose is to exchange qualified business referrals. (Ask a member
to explain a qualified business referral) Definition: A qualified business referral
is a person or company interested in a fellow member’s product or service and will
be expecting his/her telephone call and follow up. The member receiving the referral
should give feed back to the member giving the referral.
- NPI and our chapter are structured, committed, disciplined, organized and very
supportive of each other.
- These features attract professionals who refuse to waste their time on less
important items. Time well spent in increasing your sales and client base is
what Network Professionals stand head and shoulders above other networking groups.
President introduces the Vice President and turns the meeting over to
him/her for introduction of officers and duties.
As the VP introduces the Officers and committee chairs. They will stand as they
read from their tent card as to their names, professions, and duties of office
and give their committee reports.
The VP will introduce Regional director if they are in attendance.
VP then turns the chair back to the President.
Introduction of guests.
The member who has brought a guest is asked to stand and introduce their guest. Each
guest will have 60 seconds to explain the service or product they represent. They also
are told they will have the 2nd opportunity when infomercials are presented.
Demonstrate New Member Kit –
FOR NEW MEMBERS, present kit and explain. Our new members will receive this New Member
kit. There is a copy of the NPI Rules & Regulations that you should become acquainted
with. Please wear your lapel pin at all times. This will give you the opportunity to
talk about Network Professionals and invite people to be your guest at a meeting. Name
Badges are presented to new members as soon as they are received.
PASSING OF BUSINESS CARDS
Ask Guests to put their cards in front of the business card holder file and then
start passing it so that members and guests may take cards.
PROGRAM 20 minutes
President turns meeting over to the Program Chair. The Program Chair will give their
names again (I am Jane Doe, the Realtor and Program Chair for this chapter. Our speaker
for next week will be _________________, and we will hear a motivational thought for the
week from them. I would like to introduce the member speaker. (all members should fill
out a bio and turn into the Program Chair for when they are speaking. Each speaker will
have 20 minutes. Sergeant at Arms controls time.)
Thank the Speaker for the presentation.
Announcements
The President asks for any announcements. (i.e., NPI Regional, community events,
members open houses, chapter updates, etc.
MYSTERY GUEST
President has selected a mystery guest and will now announce Mystery Guest (if there
is a guest – that guest should be the mystery guest). Remind members if they did not
shake the mystery guest’s hand, they need to put the professional fees of .25 cents
into the fees bucket.
GREAT IMPOSTER
Great Imposter is revealed. Explain to members and guests, the Great Imposter will
do a 60 sec impersonation of the speaker—explaining this increases your listening
abilities. After which the Great Imposter will do his own commercial.
MEMBERS INFOMERCIALS
President instructs members and guests that during their commercials remember to
include testimonials, thank you, give referrals, pay professional fees and explain
how fellow members and guests can help you this week.
The Sergeant-at-arms start the passing of the referral bucket, reads the list of
professional fees and begins the first info-mercial and then passes to the next
person on his left.
The President thanks the guests for attending and encourage you to join our Chapter
and NPI. Our membership chairperson _________________will be in contact with you.
Please feel free to discuss this with any of the board members after the meeting.
Program Chair will announce next week’s speaker and that person will give
the MOTIVATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
President gives the five benefits of participating in NPI:
- To make money
- To meet professionals you otherwise would not know
- To increase your ability to act as a resource for your clients, customers, family and friends.
- To improve your public speaking and listening skills.
- To give to other people President reminds members;
Please talk about our speaker _______________to the first ten people you meet today
and “remember a member”.
Also, be sure to bring a guest next week. We are focusing on many categories. Who do
you know, like and trust who can become a contributing member to our Chapter
President draws two member’s business cards to meet during the week to get to know
more about each other’s business and products.
President wishes everyone a great week and concludes the meeting
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