My Business On Purpose

Why Do I Feel Busy, But Not Productive? She was sitting across the conference room table about to take on another task and then finally sat back, looked up, and let out an exasperated sigh. The only words she could seem to muster were, "why do I feel busy, and still seems like I get nothing done?" In other words, why do I feel busy, but not productive? It is a frustrating reality for many owners a...

How Do You Handle Conflict In The Workplace Let me paint a picture for you... you walk into work, look to your left and the admin won't lock eyes with you. You walk into the break room to grab a donut, no one's talking in there. You sit down at the team meeting and it's quiet as everyone is looking at their phones. What happened to our team? We used to laugh a ton and all get along, but for some r...

Choose your hard One of the conclusions I've come to over the last year of being a business coach... is that everything in the business world is hard. Nothing comes easy. Especially this year in the midst of a pandemic! It's all really, REALLY hard... managing employees, staying on top of your numbers, scheduling, estimating, selling, HR, getting sleep, getting time with your family, all of it! So...

Can You Answer This…" What do you want to be remembered for?" Thoreau's quote while living near Walden Pond for two years, two months, and two days has been rightfully recalled and repeated amidst the noise of the past five to ten years, " most men lead lives of quiet desperation ." A really famous lady died last year. A really rich guy died the year before that. A really successful lady died the...

How To Hire The Right Person... Even When You Can't Find People To Hire Never have I seen so many "Now Hiring" signs on the side of massive manufacturing plants, in the front windows of bistro shops, and permanently wrapped on the side of service trucks. Ashley and I were on a date weekend and three places that we went to eat were all noticeably short-staffed.  In one local public house, with arou...

What kind of baseball are you playing with your business? Are you swinging for the fences... trying to make a big splash? Or are you hitting singles and doubles every day? Well, let's talk about each of these and the why behind them. Happy Friday friends, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. I hope you're doing well today. A few years ago, a movie came out called Moneyball . It chronicled...

4 Things Your Employees Need To Hear From You… What do your employees need to hear from you? Let's talk about that today. Happy Friday friends, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose. Everyone's got that first boss you work for. You remember them? Can you picture them? If so, what does that picture look like? Are they yelling at you? Are they coaching you up? Coming alongside you? What are they do...

Sell me this… What is the message you're telling your clients? And what do you really offer? Well, let's talk about it! Hey there friends, Thomas Joyner with BOP here. I'll never forget sitting in professional selling class at Clemson University and the professor pulls out the age-old selling conversation.  He calls a student upfront and says, "sell me this pen." The first student clearly rattled,...

Inexpensive Marketing Ideas For Small Business There is no love loss in my relationship with marketing. If you ask any of the members of my Mastermind they would chuckle if you asked about my history with marketing.  Their response would sound something like this, " he hates marketing ." It's true.   I don't like things that feel ambiguous and cross-your-fingers-ish .   Marketing can feel like try...

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BOP Live Event- A Work Worth Doing "The work you're doing is only a work worth doing if you decide in your mind that your work is A WORK WORTH DOING." #businessonpurpose by: Scott Beebe Founder | Head Coach My Business On Purpose  

Do You Have Wise Counsel? Who did you consult the last time you had a big life decision? How about the last time you had a small decision? I want to hear about it, and I want to talk about it today. Happy Friday everyone, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. We live in a world right now that is moving faster than ever before. Split-second decisions happen all day, every day. And yet the th...

How To Structure Your Business Mentoring Program To Change Lives   Tragedy struck this past Friday night.  A young, 18-year-old student, friend, athlete, and rising star is dead. What we know right now is that at least one, if not two gunmen took fire on another car while driving their own car.  Now one young man is dead, one is in critical condition, and one is in a wheelchair for now while he pr...

Do your employees know all that you think they know? So many frustrations with employees. Why can't they just do things the way I would do them? Well, maybe they don't know how you would do them! Good morning everyone, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose. The past few weeks I've set up Weekly Team Meetings and trained local business owners on our process for that.  The funny thing is we always...

My Friend's Cancer Made Me Confront Chaos I received a quote recently that bothered me, " slow dancing with chaos ". It immediately recalled the famed John Mayer title, "Slow Dancing In A Burning Room". Christmas Eve, we are driving through a small, pass-thru town on the way to have a quick glimpse at the university that my son just committed to attending and running for.   "Hey man...just wanted...

Is your business ready for a huge boost in revenue? Are you drowning in opportunity? Frustrated thinking that if you could just get your head above water, everything would stabilize? Well, that's a great place to dig in for a bit today. Happy Monday y'all, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose. One of my favorite shows to watch with my wife is Shark Tank. Not only do you see some amazing new prod...

How To Find And Hire The Right Person For The Right Job This is a monumental week for us, today our team welcomes a new team member, and tomorrow is the six-year anniversary for our business. To give you some context, we spend our days liberating business owners from chaos so they can make time for what matters most.  We do that with powerful business coaching that helps business owners and key le...

Does your business rely on you... or your system? Employee-dependent businesses, lack of trust for employees, and never taking the time to systematize... so many things to get to this morning. Happy Friday friends I hope it's been a great week. Thomas Joyner here with Business on Purpose. We do a business owner lunch about once a quarter or so with businesses we have zero connection to. It's so mu...

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Is your success in spite of you? So often there are so many variables linked to success, so how do we know which ones were the real reason behind it all? Well, that's what we're going to talk about this morning. Happy Monday y'all, Thomas Joyner with business on Purpose here. I love meeting with new businesses and asking them what they attribute their success to. A couple of weeks ago I was meetin...

Four Tools To Help Resolve Conflict At Work It was silly; grown adults yelling and screaming at an umpire for a bad call... at a tee-ball game. Why ?  Why do we lose our minds and create conflict? Conflict is literally to strike together . Think about metal grinding together ... conflict... parks... explosion. We are people with emotions.  We are people with opinions.  We are people with varying p...

Do you let yourself dream about your business? The same old thing... day after day. Nothing exciting on the horizon. Nothing new to speak of. Sound familiar? Great, let's talk about how to change that. Happy Friday friends, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. I had a mentor in Young Life that told me something 5-6 years ago that changed my life. Now I like change, by nature. I go looking...

What To Know Before Entering A Business Partnership... And Why Many Don't Work I've heard it said many times that " the only ship that doesn't sail is a partnership ". Why? People. We're emotional creatures.  We have shifting thoughts, ideals, perspectives, and interests. What excites us today may not excite us tomorrow.  For those business owners who are married, you already realize that marriage...

Who is a step ahead of you as an owner? Do you have a business mentor? Why do you even need one? Let's talk about that today... Good afternoon y'all! Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. When I started in Young Life, who I worked for almost a decade. I'll never forget it. The first meeting we had with our Regional staff, they asked us to fill out this form and send it back to them. They as...

Are you putting in the work? What separates the good businesses from the great ones? The ones that get by from the ones that excel. Well, let's talk about that this morning... Happy Monday friends Thomas Joyner here with Business on Purpose. My wife and I tested positive for Covid this week, so I've been ripping through some books. I've loved it as I've read a book for fun, one for education, one...