BENEFITS, TERMS & CONDITIONS OF EXECUTIVE TEAM MEMBERSHIP

As leading Members of your Forum, we welcome you to your position as an elected Member of the Forum’s Executive Team and wish you every success in your term of office. Your fellow Members have honoured you with the task of helping guiding your Forum to best serve the business needs that you and all your fellow Members joined Business For Breakfast for.

As Executive Team Members you will find that you also have very clear additional benefits, which you should respect for the greater good of everyone in your Forum. These include:

  • Direct influence on the growth and performance of the forum
  • Higher profile in the forum to become a leading member and thus more likely to gain earlier trust to receive better quality referrals from other members
  • Ability to steer the forum for better referrals to suit you and all your fellow Members and a better self-profile to suit those referrals
  • Involvement in the shaping of the membership of the forum to suit the sort of occupations and personalities that best serve your needs and the needs of all your fellow Members
  • First and detailed access to the profiles, statistics, contact details and etc. of other Members and their Guests (in the Moderator’s file) to tailor your networking scope and needs
  • Direct communication with the Local Director and through you Business For Breakfast to better shape the development and ongoing improvement of the Business For Breakfast concept
  • Ability (future developing benefit) to attend the Executive Team ‘Super Forum’ meetings of a collegiate of other Executive Teams as arranged by the Local Director and Business For Breakfast Headquarters across the country
  • Increased exposure and additional access to resources on the developing Business For Breakfast website
  • Prestige and responsibility of a position on an Executive Team to benefit discussions with customers and possible future employers (as a valuable addition to a CV, for example)
  • Press releases celebrating the best Executive Team (i.e. free publicity) after awards

FINANCIAL INCENTIVES TO JOIN AN EXECUTIVE TEAM

You should be driven most by the real non-financial benefits of joining an Executive Team, but the following financial incentives are also available to reward your performance on an Executive Team (subject to the terms and conditions below):

  • A VOUCHER for three months free membership for each Member that joins an Executive Team as a welcoming gesture of thanks
  • A VOUCHER for a further three months free membership for each member of an Executive Team once their forum reaches 25 members (ONLY if it hadn’t before their term of office) and maintain that level of membership to the end of their term of office.
  • A VOUCHER for three months free membership to every member of an Executive Team should they take over office of a forum with at least 25 members and maintain its level of membership to the end of their term of office.
  • A VOUCHER for a further three months free membership for each member of an Executive Team for adding or maintaining a compliment of 10 additional members over 25 (up to 35, which is about the limit for an effective meeting)
  • Additional benefits and savings offered by the venue in support of Executive Teams and from other Business For Breakfast suppliers/partners

NOTE CAREFULLY (TERMS AND CONDITIONS):

All of the above financial incentives are ABSOLUTELY dependant on the following criteria WITHOUT EXCEPTION:

  • All awards of free membership are offered on the basis that they are ADDED to the next renewal of that Member’s membership:
  • I.e. When that Executive Team member’s subscription expires and they renew:
  • They will be charged one full year as normal
  • Any awards of free membership will be added to THE END of that renewed membership
  • E.g. a reward of three free months means that upon renewal that Member will pay for 12 months but receive 15.
  • Awards can only be redeemed by members of an Executive Team that:
  • Have served on that Executive Team for a full term (currently six months)
  • Have a good attendance record at meetings (i.e. have served as an Executive Team Member during their term at all meetings with absence from no more than 3 meetings during their term (i.e. 3 out of 12)
  • Renew for a full year upon the ending of their current subscription
  • Awards cannot be charged to a Members subscription retrospectively (i.e. they must be redeemed on the next renewal, cannot be deducted from any amount owing on the current renewal and can’t be redeemed against another renewal in the future or after a break in subscription
  • Awards are NOT transferable to any other existing member
  • Awards are NON REFUNDABLE and have NO CASH VALUE

CHANGEOVER OF TEAM

It is important that forum’s remain ‘fresh’ and dynamic with the participation of all members and as such that the Executive Team is constantly ‘refreshed’ by re-election and maximum terms of office.

Changeover will also give each member a chance to benefit from the role.

The process for Executive Team handover is as follows:

  • The Local Director will have recorded the election date of the initial election and it is their responsibility as franchisee to inform a forum (through its Moderator) that it is due for an election.
  • AFTER SIX MONTHS (i.e. 12 meetings) in office, Executive Teams are due for re-election
  • The Local Director runs the election by attending the two meetings of the election process
  • The process to elect an Executive Team is repeated from that of the initial election
  • Existing Team members can be re-elected and have the right to stand down during nominations, except:
  • NO member of an Executive Team – NO MATTER HOW GOOD – may stand for more than three consecutive elections. (They may stand in the next election after a break – i.e. after another six months – if they wish to)
  • After welcoming the new or re-elected Executive Team, the Local Director will arrange a meeting with them to review the performance of the last office and to discuss maintaining and improving upon it. (They will separately also arrange training as usual)

AN EXECUTIVE TEAM MEMBER STANDING DOWN

If any one Executive Team member wishes to stand down during their term of office, then the forum itself may nominate and select a replacement without the involvement of the Local Director.

If there is UP TO 2 months (i.e. 4 meetings or less) left in that Executive Team’s term of office then all the awards of the departing member will be cancelled EXCEPT their bonus for joining the Executive Team in the first place (Which the departing member keeps). It thus makes sense for that Executive Team member to hang on for a few more weeks.

If there is MORE than 2 months (i.e. 5 meetings or more) left in that Executive Team’s term of office then all the awards of the departing member will be transferred to the replacement member (at the loss of the departing member) – INCLUDING their bonus for joining the Executive Team in the first place.

REGULATION OF THE EXECUTIVE TEAM

Should the Local Director ever feel the need to disband an Executive Team with good and significant reason – including continuing poor performance after three warnings, unacceptable behaviour, hijacking of the Business For Breakfast format, at the request of other Members, etc. – then the Executive Team will be disbanded for re-election with the least disruption to the normal operation of the Forum and as far as possible, saving any embarrassment to the disbanded Executive Team by simply calling for an early re-election. In this case, all awards of the disbanded Members will be cancelled except for their bonus for joining the Executive Team should they have served more than 5 meetings in the position.