Hacking Your Leadership Podcast - podcast cover

Hacking Your Leadership Podcast

Chris Stark and Lorenzo Floreswww.hackingyourleadership.com
No role plays; just real. Chris & Lorenzo share four decades of combined experience to help you become a more effective leader.
Keeping employees engaged and doing their best work today requires leadership that emphasizes soft skills like empathy, emotional intelligence, and a desire to make personal connections.

Many leaders want to succeed in this brave new world, but employees continue to report poor engagement and leave companies about every three years. Listen and become a leader who people never want to leave.

Check out Lions Guide Academy today!

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support.
Last refreshed:
Follow this podcast in the Metacast mobile app to refresh it and see new episodes.
Download Metacast podcast app
Podcasts are better in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more

Episodes

Ep 121: Investing in relationships even when we don't have much in common with someone.

We find comfort in our commonalities. Our education, our upbringing, the type of music we like, even our religion or skin color. All of them are subtle signals that another person has walked a path similar to ours. Those commonalities are often catalysts to conversations which become the beginnings of fantastic interpersonal relationships. Yep, it’s easy to make friends with your coworkers if you have things in common with them. Much more difficult when there’s no jumping off point. But those wh...

Jan 07, 201923 min

*A PERSONAL MESSAGE*

Hacking Your Leadership will be taking a short break so Chris can have the surgery he needs. Please go talk to your doctor about getting a colonoscopy and we will return with new content in January. Happy Holidays! #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadershi...

Nov 01, 20187 min

Ep 120: Disruption for the sake of disruption is never good.

Discussing why some leaders view disruption as some sort of goal or achievement. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Oct 29, 201822 min

Ep 119: Is it possible to instill a sense of urgency when business is doing really well?

When employees stop using a skill for a while, the skill goes away. How do leaders prevent this without putting round-the-clock pressure on their people? #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Oct 25, 201821 min

Ep 118: Leadership skills don't just fall into your lap; you have to actively seek them out.

Discussing the difference between leaders who just do their job well versus leaders who put forth the effort needed to get better, make others better, and advance. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Oct 22, 201823 min

Ep 117: Stop making your employees ask you for everything.

If multiple members of your team have come to you with the same requests, those topics shouldn't be ignored. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Oct 18, 201822 min

Ep 116: Are your sports analogies landing or losing people?

Discussing the tendency of leaders to use sports analogies in order to galvanize teams and why they don't always work. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Oct 15, 201817 min

Ep 115: Taking your job seriously without taking yourself too seriously.

Discussing why many leaders find it hard to balance taking their careers seriously with avoiding taking themselves too seriously. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Oct 11, 201822 min

Ep 114: Managing and leading are equally important skill sets.

Discussing why many people believe leading is somehow more noble than managing. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Oct 08, 201821 min

Ep 113: Failure is unavoidable. Talking about it makes it easier. ...usually.

Discussing some of our most cringeworthy failures. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Oct 04, 201823 min

Ep 112: Time away from your job is important. Do your people have the time away they need?

If you recognize and reward employees for their long hours, you're setting an expectation that this is how people advance. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Oct 01, 201821 min

Ep 111: Email is too large a part of the lives of most leaders.

There aren't any jobs in the future where people reply to emails all day and then go home. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Sep 27, 201820 min

Ep 110: Peer accountability is more effective than leader accountability.

Discussing why employees hold themselves to higher standards for their peers than for their leaders. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Sep 24, 201821 min

Ep 109: Most teambuilding is a waste of time and money.

Discussing how teambuilding typically doesn't build collaborative teams. Link to Harvard Business Review article: https://hbr.org/2018/09/stop-wasting-money-on-team-building #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Sep 20, 201820 min

Ep 108: Inspiration, Motivation & Coercion: Do leaders need to be great at all three?

What kind of results can you expect out of a coerced employee? How about a motivated employee? An inspired employee? Link to Forbes article by Dov Seidman: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dovseidman/2016/03/15/dont-engage-elevate/ #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-y...

Sep 17, 201820 min

Ep 107: There's no way you're great at everything, so stop trying to be.

Discussing the tendency of leaders to want to be all things to all people instead of filling in the gaps with strategically-placed employees. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Sep 13, 201824 min

Ep 106: You can't have great engagement if your employees don't always know where they stand.

Discussing how too many leaders wait weeks or even months to tell their people what they're doing right and wrong. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Sep 10, 201824 min

Ep 105: Performance matters more than simply who you gravitate towards.

When you dole out development opportunites based on who you easily connect with, you short-change your top performers. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Sep 06, 201822 min

Ep 104: Gratitude is not an action, it's a mindset.

Gratitude is not the same thing as appreciation. Grateful leaders are happier people. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Sep 03, 201824 min

Ep 103: How many bosses do you have? (Hint: More than one is too many)

Discussing the tendency of some leaders to want to influence the day-to-day work of employees several layers below them. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Aug 30, 201821 min

Ep 102: Coincidence of objective vs coincidence of purpose

Confusing a coincidence of objective with any alignment on a deeper sense of purpose is a recipe for disaster. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Aug 27, 201822 min

Ep 101: Every employee has a point of no return.

There's a fine line between creating a challenging environment in order to spur growth, and pushing your employees to the point where they no longer want to be there. Link to Primos Populi article: http://www.primospopuli.com/en/the-power-of-your-point-of-no-return/ #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: htt...

Aug 23, 201824 min

Ep 100: Reflection.

Looking back on 100 episodes of learing and good times with our fans. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Aug 20, 201826 min

Ep 99: The most successful leaders are also great followers.

Discussing how the desire to stand out could be driving a wedge between you and the people you are trying to lead. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Aug 16, 201824 min

Ep 98: Being fair isn't enough. Your employees need to believe you're fair too.

Perceived fairness is, often times, more important to employee engagement than actual fairness. Link to Harvard Business Review acticle: https://hbr.org/2018/06/research-when-managers-are-overworked-they-treat-employees-less-fairly #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacki...

Aug 13, 201822 min

Ep 97: The best leaders know the importance of having routines in their lives.

Discussing why routines are freeing and allow for bigger accomplishments in the lives of great leaders. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Aug 09, 201826 min

Ep 96: Is your after-hours work making your employees think they have to as well?

Wherever there's a lack of relationship between employer and employee, the government typically takes over. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Aug 06, 201824 min

Ep 95: The importance of having humility while also remaining confident.

Discussing how some leaders are able to come off as confident while others are seen as arrogant. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support ....

Aug 02, 201821 min

Ep 94: Leadership Legends 9 of 9: Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vee shows us how leaders of today need to combine empathy with candor, ego with humility, and selflessness with expectations. He's a giant walking contradiction and it's one of the reasons he's the final leader we're talking about in our Leadership Legends series. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: ...

Jul 30, 201826 min

Ep 93: Leadership Legends 8 of 9: Sheryl Sandberg

For almost a decade, employee development has fallen heavily on the shoulders of leaders. Sheryl Sandberg believes it’s a two-way street and she’s swinging the pendulum back the other way. #HackingYourLeadership #StarkEngagementConsulting #LifeOfLozo Hacking Your Leadership Website Hacking Your Leadership Instagram Leadership Memes Twitter Stark Engagement Consulting Life Of Lozo Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support...

Jul 26, 201823 min
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android