by Thomas Joyner | Apr 6, 2021 | Employee, Mission, Owner, Vision
What do your employees need to hear from you? Let’s talk about that today. Everyone’s got that first boss you work for. Do 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...
by Thomas Joyner | Mar 19, 2021 | Employee, Owner
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...
by Jessie Barber | Feb 3, 2021 | Employee, Mission, Owner, Vision
My son and I were on an 18-foot center console boat on the edge of the Port Royal Sound in the lowcountry of South Carolina when all of a sudden a thunderous squall line formed just to our west and bared down on us. We had a decision, sit in the middle of the...
by Jessie Barber | Feb 3, 2021 | Employee, Mission, Owner, Vision
It never fails to happen after hiring…the honeymoon phase is over, the patience is wearing thin with the new employee, and they seem to maybe have fibbed a bit on their resume. Well, they’re your problem now…YOU HIRED THEM! We see it so often with our...
by Jessie Barber | Feb 1, 2021 | Employee, Owner
I played high school lacrosse growing up. Loved it! And I was new to the game when I first started playing…barely knew any of the rules, but I was a decent athlete, so I got on the field early on. I remember our coach yelled almost non-stop at the games. He...
by Jessie Barber | Jan 28, 2021 | Employee, Owner
Human beings long for clarity. We want to know precisely when the train will arrive, exactly when school will resume in person, and definitively when my Instacart order will show up. Large corporations have entire departments focused solely on communication;...
