Summary: Synopsis Lawrence Conyers from the BNI Prince Bishop chapter in the UK joins Dr. Misner today to share some points from the educational videos he created for his BNI group. Lawrence decided to set the example for his chapter to do better one-to-ones. He created a video demonstrating bad and good One-to-Ones, then went on to make one for Power Teams. He takes all these roles in both videos. There's a third video he made with his whole chapter on How to Pass Referrals. You can see them all in the next post. If you engage with the material for the educational slots, you'll have a lot more success. Being proactive in your BNI membership makes all the difference to getting referrals. Use your own backgrounds and strengths. Lawrence was a video producer, so he made videos. Brought to you by Networking Now. Complete Transcript of BNI Podcast Episode 257 - Priscilla: Hello everyone and welcome back to The Official BNI Podcast brought to you by NetworkingNow.com, which is the leading site on the net for networking downloadables. I am Priscilla Rice, and I am coming to you from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkeley, CA. I am joined on the phone today by the Founder and Chairman of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner. Hello Ivan. How are you? Ivan: I am doing great, Priscilla. Thank you very much. I have Lawrence Conyers with me. Lawrence is a BNI member, and I am really excited to have him on. I think once you hear some of his background, you'll understand why. Lawrence has always been involved with the creative media industry. He initially worked for large global companies like PWC. He did work in museum and attraction design. He's done over 100 stage production credits while performing and directing local theater. He joined BNI in early 2009 after being invited by a web designer. So he has been a member now for a few years. He set up a small business in the north of England in some of the toughest economic times. I met Lawrence as a result of him winning the International Conference chapter videos. Lawrence did what has to be by far the best video I have ever seen. What I love about this video- we'll have a link to it in this podcast. You have to go watch it so you can just see how when I tlk about keeping the fun in the fundamentals, these guys did it. It was really funny. So that link will be in here. But Lawrence has done two other videos and those links will also be in here. He has done a video on one to ones and how to do a good one to one. And he has done a video on power teams. You can really see his acting background and his sense of humor. Lawrence, it's a real pleasure to have you on this podcast today. Lawrence: It's been my pleasure. Thank you for letting me join you. It's been a real honor. Ivan: Thanks a lot. Make sure to speak up real loud so everyone can hear you. There are three things that you wanted to talk about for being a member of BNI. I think this is great because you are a member. You are out in the field. The members are mostly the ones who listen to this, of course BNI Directors too, but members are listening to this. From the member's perspective, you had three points that you wanted to make as to advice you can give members. What are those three points? Lawrence: I was looking at spending some time with you in Long Beach having this conversation. A lot of what you said really sunk in. I was thinking about this on the flight home. Ivan: Can I just say it was a result of you winning the contest to come to the conference and part of it was a one to one. I was very pleased to be able to do that with you. So you came back home. Lawrence: It was so effective, and I was thinking on the way home that we're just not doing this right. We're not doing one to ones effectively. We're not getting the benefit for our membership, and we're not generating referrals. We're not receiving referrals. At the time, I was even questioning whether to stay in BNI or not. It just wasn't worthwhile.
