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Thursday Three For All

Thursday Three For All

Outside-In Approach to Design and ROI of Patient Experiences. (via @Zhecho_BeyondP) It’s a long article, but there are nuggets in there well worth the read. What can a hospital’s MRI machine teach you about your weekend...

What’s Your Preferred Communication Gateway?

If you need me to do something for you, the best way to get ‘er done is to send me an email. You can send me a text, but it’ll likely get buried and forgotten....

Your Guests Aren’t the Problem

Last Sunday I dropped by a local fast food joint on my way over to the new Blue Ridge Campus. Join me in my flashback, won’t you? It was roughly 1 PM on a Sunday...

Flashback Friday: Stop Muddying Your Messages

Flashback Friday: Stop Muddying Your Messages

Are you a pastor? Preacher? Speaker? Ministry leader? Businessman? Marketer? Butcher, baker, candlestick maker? This may help end the white noise and drill down to the heart of your message: A unified message cuts through...

Thursday Three For All

Thursday Three For All

Delight the weird. (via @ThisIsSethsBlog) How does this apply to the “overlooked and outsiders” that visit your church on the weekend? …it’s not everyone who wants a cup of coffee. Some want a cup of tea, or a...

Replicate.

Replicate.

You’re looking at a picture of this morning’s kickoff of the 2014 Connections Cohort. To give some context, last year we started a monthly meeting of anyone who’s paid to to Connections Ministry at the Summit:...

18 Inches to a Better Guest Services Team

Giving your guests a better experience doesn’t take as much work as you think. Sometimes, all it takes is 18 inches. A foot and a half. That’s about what it takes for a volunteer to...

This Is Not Normal

This Is Not Normal

Yesterday afternoon marked the launch of the eighth campus of the Summit Church. Summit Blue Ridge kicked off with two services, a huge army of volunteers, and over 600 people in attendance. As I wandered...

Flashback Friday: Blowouts and Banjo Music

Flashback Friday: Blowouts and Banjo Music

A completely true tale: …so we made it off of I-40 and pulled over at a gas station in Rose Hill, NC, home of the world’s largest frying pan and a town where the motto is...

Thursday Three For All: Productivity Edition

Let’s ease into the 2014 edition of the ol’ blog, shall we? (Yes. We shall.) It’s a new year, and new years mean new resolutions, new resolve, new get-out-there-and-kick-your-day-in-the-face type of stuff that will cause...

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