My Business On Purpose

We recently hosted an online Masterclass on how to build your entire business on one sheet of paper. Near the end of the Masterclass, a business owner lobbed this question into the chat window, "How do you ensure, your processes aren't stolen and replicated by employees who leave?" The short answer is, "you don't." Owning a business is risky, leading people is risky, serving customers and clients...

"Nobody wants to work anymore"...the problem is that has been said for well over 100 years now! I saw a headline all the way back to 1894 declaring that "nobody wants to work anymore".  This is not a new problem.  If we're not careful, our negativity will breed a culture where work is seen as… Cursed A means to an end  As a lifeless 9 to 5, tryin' to make a livin'  Hallucinating that it's 5 o'cloc...

It was five days since I had called to check in on a contractor owner with no response.   Finally, hoping everything was ok, I texted another check in, to his simple reply, "Honestly, when I said I work all the time I wasn't embellishing the truth. I just wrapped up another long day and headed home now."   That was on a Sunday night for a business that shouldn't have much to do on the weekend. For...

"Recruiting And Hiring: The 4 Systems Every Homebuilder And Remodeler Owner Needs To Build The Right People That Builds The Right Business" Thursday, February 2, 2023 Austin Build Expo by Thomas Joyner Director of Coaching Business on Purpose People, people, people! How do we find the right people to hire? How do we find ANY people to hire? The Boomers retired early, and the emerging generations a...

"How Homebuilding and Remodeling Owners Attract The RIGHT People Like a Division 1 College Football Powerhouse" National Association of Home Builders- International Builders' Show 2023- Las Vegas, NV Wednesday, February 1, 2023 by Scott Beebe Founder | Headcoach Business On Purpose As a Division 1 Football player in the powerful Southeastern Conference (SEC), Scott has seen firsthand the behind-th...

"The Secret To Getting the Next Generation Excited To Work And Lead" National Association of Home Builders- International Builders' Show 2023- Las Vegas, NV Wednesday, February 1, 2023 by Scott Beebe Founder | Headcoach Business On Purpose We've been led to believe the myth that a good custom home-building company culture is more "luck of the draw" and less "intentional sowing and fertilizing". Th...

What does generational diversity mean? What challenges exist when multiple generations work closely together? Learn about the solutions that you can implement to build a culture that attracts the right multi-generational team. "Navigating Gen Z & Building a Company That Attracts the Right People" National Association of Home Builders- International Builders' Show Las Vegas, NV Tuesday, January 31,...

  Over the course of meeting with hundreds of business owners about their coaching needs, we will be asked this question from time to time — What's the difference between a business coach vs. a business consultant? And do I need to hire one of each? Coaching and consulting are different, and there is value in both. What's the difference between a business coach vs. a business consultant While thes...

Macroeconomics are complicated.  Highly complex minds maneuver highly complex algorithms and data points to determine economic sea changes and tidal flows, the currents of which move entire societal habits.   When the news channels report a sweeping new change or movement about this or that in the market, we are immediately programmed to assume the news piece directly affects us.   At the beginnin...

If we could boil this entire morning down to one phrase, I think it would be captured in the phrase "intentionally engaging". Intentional - done with purpose… deliberate. Engaging - charming and attractive. Patrice talked about the time, effort, and money spent in recruiting, hiring, and onboarding a new team member.   I had the opportunity to work with Pfizer and was told that the onboarding of a...

The last 50 years in world history have led to influential inventions, and yet still the top four inventions are the wheel, the nail, the compass, and Gutenberg's printing press. Dutch Philosopher Erasmus of Rotterdam lived in chronological proximity to the printing press and was able to expand the influence of his writing.  Books were a non-negotiable for Erasmus, saying, " When I have a little m...

"If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment," wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky , "all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning." Peter Segars wrote the sequence to one of the great wisdom lyrics in the history of folk rock in the late 1950s that would be recorded by The Byrds in...

Thomas just talked about some amazing recruiting practices and you had time to put ideas on paper of how to recruit great talent. Now What?  You have some resumes that look promising and you're excited that all your prayers might be answered with one of these resumes.  Now it's time to start interviewing. This is the recruit's first impression of you and your organization. This sets the tone for e...

It's an interesting time to hire right now, right? It's changed in so many ways because the people we are trying to hire have changed! So let's throw out a few fun facts about Gen Z , the group of people entering the workforce. Were born between the late '90s and about 2008 They are shrewd consumers that value their identity and how that is shown to the world. Whether that is through their purchas...

Remember the days where windows showed up like clockwork in 3 days?  Chemical arrived the next day?  Subcontractors called you back?  Schedules held true?  Material budgeting was straightforward?  Clients had empathy, patience, and treated you as the expert?   Remember the days when  your biggest headache was, "how do we find new business?" The British playwright Michael McMillan said, "You can't...

We are 6 weeks from the end of the year. What does your team need to hear from you as you finish it out? Well, let's talk about that today. Happy Monday y'all, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. We spent hours last week running what we call Prep Week with every one of our clients. Making sure they were focused on the things that matter heading into 2023!  We got all kinds of feedback, fr...

You don't have to be a college football fan to understand this story, and yet it would help to understand that college football in the southeastern United States is akin to cricket in India, premier football in England, Formula 1 in Italy, and the carnival in Brazil. We barter, bet, scream, yell, curse, fret, cheer, cry, and hug strangers all in the course of a four-hour window on any given Saturd...

I spent some time last week with a local business that had just finished redoing their core values. They spent a ton of time getting them right and a question came up. How do Core Values start to trickle down and truly affect your business? Well, let's talk about that today! Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. What does taking the next step with those look like? How do we incorporate thos...

The priority of our work is to liberate business owners from chaos, and most of those business owners have between 2 and 50 employees. We get the question often, "are we in a recession?" Our response is usually the same, "does it matter?" Seriously, in your day to day life does it matter? Over the last two years, I have watched some moments of real irony.  We obsess over downturns in the market, a...

Believe it or not, every time a customer does business with you they come in with expectations both spoken and unspoken. So, how do we manage those and shape those to match what we have to offer? Well, let's talk about that today! Happy Monday friends, Thomas Joyner here with Business on Purpose. Last week, my wife found a deal online. $79 bucks for your first visit. Introductory offer, book here....

Bob Roberts is a larger-than-life Baptist Preacher turned global engagement pioneer and independent global diplomat whose best friends are with people far outside of his own East Texas tribe. Bob began mentoring me two decades ago with his words, his actions, and his time.  I'll never forget the day he drove me to Barnes and Noble in the mid-cities of the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex and loaded me u...

If you are comparing your 2022 to 2020 and 2021 you may want to pause. Standing here at the early sunset hours of 2022 we are feeling a very real metaphor. It goes like this. During 2020 and 2021 many of our businesses were barreling down the business highway at 90 mph winding hot at 10,000 RPMs. Today, it already feels like a massive slowdown, and it has been.  Let's not lose perspective, though…...

Amidst the chaos of a recession, there are many who see opportunity and possibility tucked away in a larger population that submits blindly to doom and gloom. We have always had a few business owners in the past with a desire to expand into new markets, and yet the drumbeat of expansion is ironically higher now in a tough, recession-bent market. These are trade contractors who are realizing that t...

It's October! As crazy as that sounds. And I'm curious…when was the last time you looked at the goals you set at the beginning of the year? Have you looked at them yet? Or are they collecting dust somewhere, or worse…did you even write them down? Let's talk a bit about that today. Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. Thanks so much for joining today. I was sitting in a coaching meeting wit...

Greedy Boomers are feeling frustrated and overrun by entitled Millennials, while skeptical Gen Xers are interviewing unaware Gen Zers who are scrolling TikTok in a job interview; and for the first time we are all working together in the same businesses. College sports is awash in generational misunderstanding. The newly minted Name, Image, and Likeness rules are in place and for the first time in...