State of NetIP Miami: A Q2 report

Hope the start of the summer season finds everyone well. I just want to say thank you all for making the first half of 2010 the most successful in NetIP Miami history. We have enjoyed record high membership levels, event attendance, bank balances, partner interest — while hosting 6 high quality, free events every month. None of this wold have been possible without your amazing efforts in organizing events and motivating your friends to get involved.

Some highlights:

1) Events with President Obama and President Clinton in the same week
2) Free New Year’s gala ball for 300 guests with open bar, entertainment, and dinner
3) NetIP Holi weekend with 5 events over 3 days
4) Guys night / Girls night simultaneous events highlighting our organizational abilities
5) Innovative club system with each club run by a passionate subcommittee : Desi Divas, Outdoors Club, Book Club, Sports Club, Cooking Club, Film Club
6) Multiple charity events with every event reaching our fundraising goal
7) Organizing all of the Indian organizations in Florida for a White House sponsored immigration conference

So why do we work so hard? What’s the point? Why do so many people whom are already very busy invest in NetIP? Is there any reward for doing a good job other than being asked to do more work?

It’s simple, getting involved with NetIP is really an investment in yourself and our community. It is the purest form of leadership training available–organizing a high quality, free event is a complicated endeavour. You must learn to attract and retain interest/effort from sponsors, members and friends. Those skills directly translate into becoming a more effective, disciplined, motivating manager/leader in your everyday non-NetIP life. If you learn to motivate people/organizations when they know you can’t pay them, those same soft skills will make you a superstar at your job when you can pay people. As any good manager knows, the worst way to motivate people is with money; simply stated you can never pay people enough to keep them motivated long term with money alone. They will always want additional incentives in the form of raises, bonuses and eventually your budget will run out and people will be demotivated. But if you motivate with your leadership/management skills, then you are more likely to have long term success.

So here’s looking forward to a great 2nd half of the year. Just a quick reminder, that our next two events will be hosted by our Film Club. Here is the link to the Bollywood celebrity dinner/wine event with the Miami film commissioner this Saturday night. It’s also the world premier for the movie for which we did the NetIP open casting call.

http://bit.ly/dvybhH

We are always looking for volunteers who are interested in getting involved and making a positive impact in our community while learning valuable leadership skills.