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The irony of this training is the fact that I am writing the script while flying on a private plane from a secluded island in the Bahamas after spending 3 days spearfishing, eating, and hanging out with friends and clients. That was a moment of privilege. Spending your days with continual electricity is a privilege.     If you are listening to this talk, you have privilege. Privilege is “a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group”.  A more direct definition is to be “exempt from an obligation from which others are subject.”   How do you know if you are in a class of privilege?  Others shoulder a burden you don’t have to shoulder.   It wastes our time to try and determine if we are privileged, and instead to ask “because we have privilege, what does that mean?”  In the barren desert of the middle east, a man hears a message.  “I will bless (privilege) you so that you can be a blessing (offer privilege to others).”   This training is about the so that.   Wh

On the outskirts of Atlanta, we drove past the waterfall, walked through the front doors, and stepped into a world of positivity and smiles.  Each delivered through a well-rehearsed cocktail of sincere stories that provided a peek into why this “chicken business” is a homebase of hope and life-change for so many.  One small business is a powerful, accessible opportunity for so many teenagers and adults to engage in their community, develop relationships, solve problems, earn income, and develop powerful and usable skills.  A collection of aligned small businesses, if well led and obsessively focused on vision, mission, and values, has the opportunity to scale the hope and life-change beyond one or two locations.   This is the opportunity for Chick-Fil-A.   Indeed, their chicken sandwich is remarkable, use of “my pleasure” noticeable, and waffle fries laced with a special serum of deliciousness - and their support of local small business is a Master’s class of intentional scale.   It is not lost on the Support

 Business On Purpose Founder Scott Beebe and Director of Coaching Thomas Joyner talked about the importance of Vision.  Know the answers to the following questions: ➡️ What is vision? ➡️ How does it differ from your mission and values? ➡️ Why is knowing where you're headed important and what does that do for your team? ➡️ Lack of vision from business owners, why does it matter? ➡️ Why do you think it's become cliche or stale and really lack the punch it needs to have? ➡️ Why does having accountability from a source outside of your business important?  ➡️How does it get you where you need to go? WATCH THE VIDEO to learn more! Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do you have all of the foundational elements that will liberate you from the business chaos?  Take the assessment to find out which areas you can grow and improve on.  Take our Healthy Owner Business Assessment HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/healthy SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter For blogs

An influential teacher was slowly traveling towards his intended destination and along the way would make time to connect in a variety of towns.   As is the case for most teachers, politicians, musicians, and artists of influence, this teacher had supporters… followers. There was one controversial stop along the campaign route where the local population was more hostile to the teachers message.  Argumentative conflict ensued. The supporters immediately asked the teacher's permission to antagonize and put the locals in their place.  The teacher said “no”.  In effect, he censured his supporters. His supporters desperately wanted to control the narrative…to make the locals either like the teacher and the message that they themselves liked, or else they wanted to burn the place down. Instead, the teacher provided a model of having self-control and realizing that it is impossible to mandate conversion to any sort of message.   Labor to control others and you will either get blind subjects or chaotic revolt. Live u

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 is risky, and bringing your product and service into an open market is risky. What are some things you can do to ensure that others don’t “steal” your proprietary process? First, legally it is always good to have each employee sign an employee agreement that has been drafted by a legal professional. Within that agreement, there can be language and clause that reflects the desire to maintain “trade secrets" and proprietary process.   Some would say that the agreement is as valuable as the paper it’s written on.  Maybe, however, you would rather have that signed in the rare case it would need to be referenced.   Second

“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’clock somewhere Something to “take and shove it” Just another Manic Monday  Work is deeper than that, more powerful than that Work is an opportunity… Proverbs 12:11 - “A hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies has no sense.” We say, “nobody wants to work anymore!”...when in reality they just don’t want to work for you because you are grumpy! Instead, we need to build  A CULTURE WHERE PEOPLE DO WISH TO DO HARD THINGS! There will always be a mountain to climb in building a culture of intentionality within your business.   Business is hard…running a business is even harder.   Let’

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 too many business owners, the harsh reality is that the business is owning them and it may be time to sell.   There are three helpful filters to flush a decision through when timing a potential sale of your business. First, do you have a desire? Desire cedes ground to opportunity that has lured many business owners down the path of “profitable distractions” - where the potential of profit distracts from what the owner desires.   Ownership is hard, and owners must have a continued desire to own and lead the business in a way that others desire to follow.   Second, are you at a relational impasse? Many owners are lead

"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 are much more selective in the work they choose. How can you find the right people, recruit them the right way, share the right vision, and then onboard them the right way that aligns with the right mission? This life-changing and engaging 45-minute talk pulls from our work with hundreds of contractor owners that led to our proprietary and proven roadmap. This roadmap will equip you to beat chaos with predictability and to build the team that will build the business to make time for what matters most.

"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-the-scenes system that is being constantly updated and refined to ensure that athletically talented 16 and 17 adolescents choose the right team. Remodeler and home builder owners are in a season of work where they have a choice: see the next generation as a hindrance with excuses like “they won’t work” or see this new generation as an opportunity to pivot with a renewed mindset like “I’m excited to see how they own the mission!” There is a shortage of workers for the old-school methodologies, but there is no shortage of people willing to work… toward the right mission. However, chaos creeps in, and owners feel they spe

"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”. This eye-opening program will help to uncover what the next generation really wants and what elements lead to business health. Get clarity on the difference within the generations, how to listen and speak to your team with a compelling language, and what elements are needed for each team member to thrive day-to-day. Leave empowered with a tool that you can implement immediately, providing a clear roadmap to multi-generational engagement in the custom home-building workplace.

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, 2023 Presented by: Patrice Miles Business Coach Business On Purpose

 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 these phrases are sometimes used interchangeably in everyday conversation, this is actually a misnomer. A business coach's role (much like an athletic coach’s role) is to constantly research and study the “game” of business, work to develop playbooks, roadmaps, and techniques that each business owner and key leader (players) can follow, and then show up enthusiastically and repetitiously on a predetermined schedule to create the necessary push and conditioning through accountability and implementation.   A coach will push the stagnate, temper the overenthusiastic, motivate the exhausted, learn from defeat, and celebrate g

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 beginning of the pandemic in 2020, John Elderidge released an unknowingly timely book entitled Get Your Life Back.  A key concept of his writing was the practice of “benevolent detachment”.   Elderidge describes it this way on his blog, “Everybody has a junk drawer, that black hole for car keys, pens, paper clips, gum, all the small flotsam and jetsam that accumulates over time. Our souls accumulate stuff, too, pulling it in like a magnet. And so Augustine said we must empty ourselves of all that fills us, so that we may be filled with what we are empty of.  Over time I’ve found no better practice to help clear out my clutte

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 new team member cost the company around $200k.   Certainly compelling, but that is not the real reason that you don’t want to lose team members. The real reason we want a cohesive team that values longevity is for the same reason that we go back to the same restaurants, revisit the same destination, pull for the same sports team, and drive the same route to work. We really do value stability, community, and “being known”. Every Tuesday at our house we are humbled and honored to host a group of young men that over time has become known as “Man Up” Back in 2016, I began meeting a group of HS Freshman guys at Wendy’s i

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 money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” Indeed Erasmus was reported to have little money and so fought through hunger pains for the pleasure of reading.  Attributed to Mark Twain is a saying that should serve as an accountability nudge to leaders, “The (person) who does not read good books has no advantage over the (person) who can't read them.” Here are three books I have read that I would challenge you to consider reading in 2023 in order to grow in fortitude.   Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect, Will Guidara A friend and client Chris Ko

“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 1965 and popularized as the theme music in Forest Gump, The Simpsons, and The Wonder Years. Some have called Turn, Turn, Turn a number one hit with the oldest lyrics.  Segars adapted the majority of the lyrics from the wisdom literature of the Jewish King Solomon’s writings in the Old Testament book Ecclesiastes. The Segars rendition ends just shy of Solomon’s powerful sequence that helps us understand the motive and the value of work. John Mark Comer in his well-reflected book Garden City says of our modern (primarily Western culture), “The American dream - which started out as this brilliant idea that everybody sh

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 everything from this point forward. Are you professional? Are you organized? Are you intentional? Are you mission-driven or chaos-driven? If you are professional, well organized, and intentional, then the recruit knows you mean business. They will either get scared and run or they will show up and show off for you because they want the job. Wouldn’t you want to scare them off now, instead of 3 months from now when they have cost you over $10,000 to $25,000 in your time and resources, and then you have to do this recruiting, hiring and onboarding all over again? So, How are you giving the first impression to recruits o

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 purchases, social media, or their lifestyle choices (IE, where they work), they are carefully curated in how they present themselves Pragmatic and financially minded This is a generation that has watched their families be affected by the recessions of 08/09 and watched them take those hits. Truly driven by financial pragmatism and security. They are shaped by the financial stresses their families and communities faced during those recessions         3. Value Spectacle over substance   They want a show. They want to be entertained and feel the excitement This past year, the university of Louisville got more 4 and 5

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 start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” As you come into this final 12-Week Plan LIVE event of 2022…this final opportunity to think deeply through the new challenges you will confront, the new mountains you will climb, the new opportunities you will pursue… you have a choice. Let me rephrase, you have to make a choice. Will you gripe, moan and mope about those mean clients, those non-committal subs or vendors, those irritating shipping delays, or those increased prices?   Or will you cut the strings of excuses, limitations, and barriers, and be free from the sludge and the mud of wha

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, from “Yes, we needed that.” to “It’s so crazy, it’s already time for these discussions,” to even “Man, I’m really excited for next year!” And all of those statements are true. What we’ve realized is if we don’t plan intentional time in the year for some of these conversations, they sneak up on us and they get rushed or worse, never happen. The same can be said for your Annual letter. Many times, we realize we’re two weeks out from the end of the year, so we rush it and lose much of its impact. We write down a few thoughts that have little meaning, print it out, sign our name at the bottom and send it out. But that’s su