Hacking Your Leadership Podcast

Many employees receive their performance appraisals and bonuses based not just on their own performance but on that of their team as well. On this week’s #ThoughtfulThursdays episode, Chris talks about how leaders of teams like this can empower their teams to succeed together while lowering potential resentment towards coworkers who are bringing down the team’s results. #HackingYourLeadership #Sta...

The people with whom you associate at work WILL make you better or they WILL make you worse. If you are trying to advance at your job, there might be some really great people who are actually holding you back. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of L...

As a leader, the spin game is so much fun, but not when it comes to developing your people! On this week’s #ThoughtfulThursdays episode, Lorenzo talks about the importance of not making excuses for not effectively developing your team. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo lozo@lifeoflozo.com chris@starkengagement.com Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership...

When an employee suggests something terrible due to a lack of context, some leaders don’t want to give them an outright ‘no.’ Instead they attempt to coax the correct course of action through a series of questions that are meant to add the missing context. Often this ends in the employee feeling patronized and, over time, it has the same impact as just being the leader who says no to everything. B...

It’s no secret, different people doing the same role still make different salaries. And there are a number of reasons for this—some controllable and others not so much. On this week’s #ThoughtfulThursdays episode, Chris talks about why many leaders dread conversations with their people about pay, and how those leaders can make these inevitable conversations a little easier. #HackingYourLeadership...

One of the quickest ways to lower the morale of a team is to give the impression that you don’t hold low performers accountable. But since most performance counseling tends to happen behind closed doors, how do you ensure your people understand that it is still happening? #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram...

When you feel tension or a rift in the relationship between you and a coworker, is your go-to action to ignore it and hope it goes away? It won’t go away. The relationship will continue to deteriorate and will eventually become unrepairable. On this week’s #ThoughtfulThursdays episode, Chris talks about the importance of being confrontational when you don’t want to dread coming to work. #HackingYo...

During stressful times at work, can your people look to you and your actions in order to be secure in their knowledge that everything is going to be ok? Or do your actions add drama and uncertainty to situations that are already volatile? #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark En...

Do you show up for your people the way that your best leaders and greatest mentors have shown up for you? On this week’s #ThoughtfulThursdays episode, Lorenzo talks about helping leaders connect the dots on following in the footsteps of those that have supported their development. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo lozo@lifeoflozo.com chris@starkengagement.com Hacking Yo...

Are you comfortable leaning on your values and actually taking sides in a conflict between two or more of your employees? Leaders who either fall back on policy or who attempt to solve conflicts by making everyone equally happy or equally mad end up losing the support of their people. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leaders...

Are you quick to jump in and get your hands dirty by doing tasks and busy work that your people normally do? On this week’s #ThoughtfulThursdays episode, Chris talks about why you might want to think twice if this is a big part of how you connect with your employees. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo lozo@lifeoflozo.com chris@starkengagement.com Hacking Your Leadership...

Do your employees like feedback delivered in a straightforward manner or a little on the sugarcoated side? If you lead a team comprised of employees from different generations, chances are you'll get different answers to that question.  #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Enga...

What does it mean when someone tells you to own your development? Leaders tend to confuse training with development and often fail to clearly define examples of behaviors that show which is which. In this episode, Lorenzo provides three observable behaviors that validate when someone is owning their own development. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo lozo@lifeoflozo.com...

If the only place you learn your leadership skills is at your job, you’re ignoring countless valuable places to accumulate knowledge and best practices. Forbes Article by Mitchell Simon:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2019/01/07/vulnerability-the-remedy-for-mediocrity/#60fbf8ee6f9b #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hac...

Do you know people who intentionally over-complicate their job when explaining it to others? When a person has a hard time justifying their own existence this can be hard for them to avoid. If you’re a leader of people, your job is to simplify things for your people, not make them seem harder than they are. On this week’s Thoughtful Thursdays episode, Chris talks about why people tend to do this a...

If your high-performing people aren’t constantly asking to be challenged, stretched, and given responsibilities outside their core job duties, it could mean they aren’t positive you’ll have their back when they fail. Those people will either leave you or they’ll cease to be high-performing. Forbes Article by Mitchell Simon:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2019/01/07/vulnerabilit...

Lorenzo discusses a snippet of a Gary Vee YouTube video about making Empathy, Kindness and Gratitude cool. Video Link: https://youtu.be/t0aBRVgbsJs?t=1249 #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo lozo@lifeoflozo.com chris@starkengagement.com Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Becom...

It’s easy to provide answers to your employees when asked. We all like feeling needed and many of us have a hard time telling people to go fend for themselves. But if you strike the right balance, you’ll end up with capable employees who never feel like you’re the gatekeeper to the information they seek. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website...

Chris discusses the tendency of leaders to ask their employees to bring their best selves to work, and why some leaders don't really have the right to ask. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo lozo@lifeoflozo.com chris@starkengagement.com Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Beco...

Since we know job stress, frustration with coworkers, and a lack of fulfillment from your work can lead to a myriad physiological problems, the job of a leader becomes more than just about the growth and development of their people, it includes elements of their overall wellbeing too. As a leader, are you good at spotting warning signs that your people are being run over by their jobs? #HackingYou...

Lorenzo talks about Simon Sinek's upcoming book and how the idea of infinite and finite games apply to leadership. Simon Sinek video link:  https://youtu.be/Ar20m23XY_c #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo lozo@lifeoflozo.com chris@starkengagement.com Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life...

Have you ever walked into a chaotic environment and seen someone who seems to be unaffected by the chaos. He or she just seems to know what’s going on and their confidence and ability to control the room has a calming effect. You want to ask THAT person your question, even if they aren’t a subject matter expert. This is what command skills look like in action. But as we continue to place higher va...

Chris talks about why businesses have largely failed when they ask employees to cast aside their own values in order to accomplish organizational objectives, and why today’s effective leaders find ways of aligning those two things for their people. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo lozo@lifeoflozo.com chris@starkengagement.com Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking You...

Only about a third of employees worldwide say they’re “fulfilled” by their work. But what does it mean to be fulfilled at work? If you’ve never been fulfilled by your job how would you know? As a leader, do you get to spend your time doing the things that fulfill you? Do you work to make sure your employees are doing the things that fulfill them? #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #...

A brief intro for our new Thoughtful Thursdays episodes and a talk about leadership when you get asked to do more with less. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo lozo@lifeoflozo.com chris@starkengagement.com Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast:...