Keeping Your Employees Engaged in a Volatile World
Business On Purpose Conversations
Release Date: 11/16/2020
Capital is plentiful, great business partners, not so much: with Clint Park
Business On Purpose Conversations
Capital is plentiful, great partners or co-owners, not so much. In this conversation, Clint Park is back to offer biblical perspective on how to add, when to add and who to add into your business as an ownership partner. What are the big mistakes to avoid and what principles can guide our thinking? We parse the potentials and pitfalls of co-owners and whether your business is ready to have additional owners. Clint offers six ways to evaluate potential partners or co-owners, along with a wealth of wisdom drawn from God’s Word. If you have business partners or are considering...
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The Gift of Disillusionment with Peter Greer and Chris Horst
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How is disillusionment a gift? Christ Horst and Peter Greer talk about their latest book in which they show how Christian leaders from around the deal with setbacks, trials, suffering and failures in a way that demonstrates the hope of the gospel. If you want to lead your business in a Christ-honoring way through both good times and hard times this conversation is for you. We’ll explore the meaning and value of disillusionment, the tension of suffering, the danger of comfort and the hope experienced by people like the prophet Jeremiah even in the midst of crushing disappointment...
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Solving the puzzle of remote work with Rick DeJarnette
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Is remote work here to stay? Will it make your company and your employees more effective or less effective? Rick DeJarnette, executive coach and executive in residence at the University of Richmond, joins us to provide a framework for how Christian business owners and entrepreneurs can think about remote vs. hybrid vs. on-site work. Listen to the end to hear Rick’s top lessons for Christian entrepreneurs from the world of mountaineering. Conversation highlights: -The debate over remote work is a debate about a “complex” problem, not a “complicated” problem,...
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Lessons learned at Business On Purpose 2021 with Ken Kinard
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The 2021 Business On Purpose conference featured 10 great speakers addressing a multitude of topics with relevance for Christians who own businesses. In this episode Ken Kinard, who led a breakout session at the conference, joins us to recap the lessons learned as well as main takeaways and conference highlights.
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Jesus's recruitment strategy: risk-taking entrepreneurs (with Jerry Bowyer)
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Jesus had a “disproportionate recruitment strategy” of calling entrepreneurs who were frontier risk-takers pursuing economic opportunity. What do these facts say about how Jesus viewed businesspeople & entrepreneurs during his earthly ministry?
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Is the "Great Resignation" coming for your business? Chris Allen on creating cultures of community.
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Is your business about to get crushed by the Great Resignation? Is it even a real thing? Maybe. In this conversation, Chris Allen, the founder of Always About People and one of the keynote speakers at Business On Purpose 2021, examines what is really going on with the so-called Great Resignation.
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Clint Park: Business Health Fosters Business Generosity
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In this conversation, Clint Park joins us to dig deeper in an exciting topic from a previous episode: radical generosity through the gifting of your business. In a previous episode with Jeff Rutt, we discussed how and why Jeff was able to give his successful business away. Jeff shared what made this possible for him and his company. In this follow up discussion, Clint Park takes us on a deep dive into this form of succession planning.
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Hannah Stolze on Wisdom-Based Business
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What’s the difference between your competitive advantage and your comparative advantage? Plus, does the praiseworthy woman of Proverbs 31 have anything to teach us about business? Hannah Stolze—one of our keynote speakers at the October 28 Business On Purpose conference—delves into these questions and discusses her new book, Wisdom-Based Business in this episode. We explore how the Bible’s wisdom literature can impact how you run your business and much more.
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Alan Crippen on America's First Christian CEO and the legacy of philanthro-capitalists
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Can business practices and profits change society? Alan Crippen, Executive Director of the Faith and Liberty Initiative talks with us about two little-known Christian business owner stories from American history.
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Pete Scazzero: Grow Yourself Before You Grow Your Business
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Best-selling author Pete Scazzero joins us to talk about the epidemic of shallow discipleship and what it means for Christian business owners. It might not be what you think it is.
info_outlineEmployee engagement matters more than ever during a year as tumultuous as 2020. What’s your plan for keeping your team engaged with their work? In this episode, we bring you a special Business On Purpose webinar conversation between Chris Allen and Mike Boyes, both experts in the field of employee engagement and company culture. Chris and Mike share insights for keeping team members engaged, motivated and productive based on scripture, social science research and their work with business leaders. They address how current conditions disrupt God’s plan for work and how to restore healthy mindsets, relationships and productivity to your workplace.
Conversation highlights:
--Connections with team members should not be simply about sharing information. Instead we should also plan to make our connections with team members or employees about connecting on a personal level.
--Isolation causes our ability to personally connect with people to atrophy. The personal connections we need are what we may be tempted to drift away from as we move more towards virtual connections and less spontaneous personal-level connections. Leaders are especially tempted to do this, to connect less in order to “get more work done.”
--Can monkeys teach us about how to cope with the stress which leads to disconnection?
--“In the absence of information, people make up stories.” Keep your teams informed, otherwise they will create an alternative reality.
--Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic motivational factors. Leaders help employees understand the purpose and meaning of their work both within the organization and within the scope of what really matters in life.
--Helping people find meaning and purpose in their work requires leaders to take on an “inspirational” role. Keep reminding people of the purpose of their work, even if you did it yesterday or last week or last month.
--Ensure team members know who your customers are. Some customers are outside the organization, some customers are within the organization.
--When the world is rapidly changing (as it is right now), companies need adaptive employees. These are people who innovate and solve problems. But how do we help people become adaptive?
--Who is responsible for doing the “thinking” in your business? Does that need to change?
--Sin, shame and blame are active in your organization, whether or not you acknowledge it. How will you deal with these realities?
--Engaged team members know exactly what it means to win.
--Anxiety stems from maintaining pre-COVID expectations, even if those expectations are no longer valid. Engaged teams talk about this openly and collaboratively.
--We are wired to look to leaders and model their behavior. How does that truth inform your leadership of your team?
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