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The Member Success Program is the first step for every new Member: a training session at which you get to know BNI from the inside — how the referral system works, how to make use of all the organisation’s opportunities and how to plan your first weeks in the Chapter. Instead of learning by trial and error, you work with a full set of skills from the start and benefit from what the Chapter offers from the very first weeks.

BNI knowledge does not end in the training room. BNI University is a platform available at any time: training and materials on working with referrals that you use when you have the time — even late in the evening, after the company has closed for the day. Alongside it run webinars and regular live online training led by trainers and referral practitioners — as part of the membership, without leaving the office.

The heart of BNI beats every week. The same group of business owners sits down at the table, each presents their company in 60 seconds, referrals are passed on and One-to-Ones arranged — following a fixed agenda, so that around 90 minutes end in concrete outcomes, not just talk. Everything the workshops teach and everything you see at conferences proves itself right here.

The shortest way to find out how BNI works: come and see. Most Chapters hold Visitor Days — a business owner from outside BNI sits at the Chapter table, listens to the Members’ 60-second presentations, sees referrals being passed on and, if they wish, presents their own company. The decision comes only afterwards. All it takes is to arrange a visit with a chosen Chapter — we will help you choose the nearest one.

Every Chapter is led by a Leadership Team elected from among the Members — business owners who, beyond their own company, take responsibility for the results of the whole table. The training prepares them for this role: how to run meetings, how to look after the quality of referrals and how to grow the Chapter so that it works for everyone’s results. For a Member it is also a school of leadership that pays off in their own company.

The Leadership Teams of Chapters from the whole region at one table: exchanging practices, solving problems together and planning. This is where the best ideas of one Chapter become the standard of the others — a way of running meetings that worked in one city reaches every Chapter in the region. For a Leadership Team it is a chance to see their Chapter against the others and come back with ready-made solutions.

One day, the whole region in one place. Chapters from across the region meet for networking beyond Chapter boundaries, listen to talks and exchange referrals on a regional scale. The simplest way to meet business owners from outside your own table — and come back with contacts that a single Chapter simply does not have.

A whole industry at one table. Regional meetings devoted to specific industries: Members from related specialisations exchange experience and contacts more widely than the circle of one Chapter allows. It is professionals talking to professionals — about customers, about the market and about what really works in a given industry.

For those who grow Chapters and regions on the organisation’s side: Directors, Franchisees and Ambassadors. The modules cover opening new Chapters, techniques for training Members and managing Chapters — based on proven procedures that apply in BNI all over the world. This knowledge comes back to every Chapter in the region: it is the Director who trains its Leadership Team and safeguards the meeting standard.

The largest BNI Polska business conference: Members and Visitors from across the country, speakers from the world of business, skills development and networking on a scale that cannot be built locally. In the evening, a gala with the BNI Awards. This year the conference has a special dimension — we are celebrating 20 years of BNI in Poland, and for the first time the whole ecosystem of The Company meets in one place.

The widest circle of BNI: a meeting of an organisation that operates in 70 countries and has 350,000 Members. For Polish business owners it is direct access to contacts and practices from markets all over the world — knowledge from the best referral practitioners and conversations with Members from every continent. BNI Polska Members take part on the same terms as Members from any other country.