Paul Benger

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  • 5 Tips For Great Customer Service

    “Build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”-Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon.com If you attended a party where the host snarled at you, reluctantly offered you a drink, looked past you to greet someone deemed more important and basically couldn’t wait until you left–chances are you would as soon…

  • My Plan To Be A Better Leader As I Grow Older

    I turn 50 in a few weeks, and there’s nothing I can do about it. In a culture that celebrates youth, it’s easy to believe the only key to impact is to be young. Just as we can misspend our youth, it’s just as easy to blow your decades past age 40/50. What Does Age Predict? Your best…

  • Daniel Coyle on Achieving Mastery

    Daniel Coyle on Achieving Mastery

    Daniel Coyle is the author of some of the best books on getting better at anything: The Talent Code and The Little Book of Talent. Dan knows that the “10,000 hour rule” is nice, (it takes 10,000 hours to become great at something) but you need to align your effort with the way your brain was designed to…

  • 6 Habits Of Growing Churches

    In the March edition of Inc. magazine, Leigh Buchanan interviews Stanford professors Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao about the practices of companies who successfully grow and scale.  You can read the interview HERE. I found their insights quite applicable for some of the things that are needed for churches to grow. While this is obviously not…

  • Stop The Self Deprecation

    This blog post is from Cole Nesmith, I really enjoyed it… CHRISTIANS ARE PRETTY GOOD AT SELF DEPRECATING. We value it as some sort of symbol for holiness. I suppose the idea is taken from the likes of Paul who makes statements about his suffering being gainful. But we take these words of a man…

  • 7 Changes Driven By Church Growth

    Last monday I posted on 8 Reasons Most Churches Are Below 200. It drew lots of interest and comments from all around the world. One of the main reasons for posting was to raise the leadership awareness that as Churches grow our leadership style changes and grows too. Tim Keller says, “Every church has a…

  • You Are What You Tweet

    I have adapted what follows from an article I read called How To Manage Your online Persona. I have included the authors names at the bottom as much of the material comes from them. There’s no doubt about it, this matters more than it did one year ago and in one years time it will…

  • 8 Reasons Most Churches Are Below 200

    While social media, and even traditional media, are still preoccupied with megachurches and multisite churches, the reality is that most churches in North America & Britain are quite small. The Barna group pegs the average Protestant church size in America at 89 adults, in the UK average attendance is 84 (inc children see chart at…

  • How to Coach: Ask These 5 Questions And Listen!

    I think the leadership world knows that coaching is in. When it comes to developing and empowering leaders nothing is has powerful as a great coach who knows their craft. One of the biggest mistakes we make when it comes to coaching is our mental model. We think that coaching means me (the expert) telling…

  • 7 Ways The Leader Sets The Bar

    The leader sets the bar for the organization. If you are a leader of an organization then you have the awesome responsibility of establishing the parameters by which your organization will be successful. Now, as I feel the need in every post like this, Jesus sets the bar. Period. He is our standard. But, it…