I’m looking for Chairs who want to learn how to efficiently find new members.
In my last blog posting, I mentioned that I would be creating a virtual course for a small group of chairs to find new members. This course is based on my decade of experience working with chairs, improving the chair interview process, privately coaching chairs around the world on acquiring members, and the program I teach to the Chair Groups on Finding New Members.
Layered on top of all that experience in the Vistage/TEC community is a 3-5 year project in which my partner, Brad Remillard, and I have established a worldwide expertise in the leveraging of social media and social networking in recruiting – more commonly referred to as social recruiting.
As an aside, Brad and I are developing a new program/speaker presentation which we plan on rolling out in 2011 on how to use social recruiting to hire great talent. This program joins our other popular programs, such as “You’re NOT the Person I Hired”, “Advanced Interviewing”, and “You’re the Person I Want to KEEP”.
So, now that I’ve established my credentials for leading this virtual course on “HOW TO FIND MEMBERS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA”, let’s talk about what we’re going to do in the course:
How can you sign up for this course?
To keep the course group size manageable, I am only taking the first 25 qualified chairs to raise their hands. What do I define as qualified? Qualified for the course means you’re willing to invest the time required to do the various projects in this course, such as creating a blog, writing blog articles, establishing a “killer” profile on various social media sites like LinkedIn, Plaxo, Twitter, and Facebook. We’re going to work on dramatically expanding your network and visibility to CEOs in your local community. We’re going to focus on how to use content with newspapers, universities, publishers in your local community to establish you as the authority on CEO related issues.
The course is going to be a crash course over 30 days in how to find members. It will require an investment of 5-10 hours a week for 4 weeks. By the end of that time, you’ll have the foundation set to start building a pipeline of abundant referrals.
Long-winded explanation that if you want to take this course, you’ve got to be willing to invest the time to implement what we recommend. If not, it’s a waste of time.
Send me a note if you would like to participate. As I indicated above, the selection method is basically going to be first-come, first-serve. You can reach me through Vistage Village, LinkedIn, or directly on email. If you would like to see the course plan (with all 30 days described in glorious detail) send me a note.
I plan to kick off the first session of the course within the next two weeks.
Barry Deutsch
