Hacking Your Leadership Podcast

Jan 30 2025 975 ep. 15 mins 533

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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.

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Engagement Exchange: Using behaviors over personality traits, follow-up

Jan 30 2025 10 mins

Following up with specific best practices and acions you can take right now if you need help wtiting a great performance review.Welcome to the Engagement Exchange.Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22174142Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support.

Ep 415: For effective performance reviews, use behaviors not personality traits.

Jan 27 2025 18 mins

Many leaders have a tendecy to cite the personality traits of their employees on performance reviews rather than the observable behaviors that led to the specific business outcomes being measured. This is both unfair to the employee and it's far less defensible if the employee decides to challenge the review.Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22174142Become a supporter

Engagement Exchange: You can't have effective accountability without great coaching.

Jan 23 2025 12 mins

Many organizations are great at the process of holding people accountable. But if they don't have a strong coaching culture to back it up, the accountability will feel unfair and it will lower engagement. Welcome to the Engagement Exchange.Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22174142Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leader

Ep 414: Is there enough accountability on your team?

Jan 20 2025 20 mins

Employees are reporting more and more that the accountability to which they're subjected isn't shared by their leaders. On this episode, we discuss the right and wrong ways to hold your people and yourself accountable.Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22174142Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/

Leadership Author Series: Keith "Flip" Griffin

Jan 17 2025 22 mins

SummaryIn this episode of Hacking Your Leadership, Flip Griffin discusses the essential elements of effective leadership, focusing on core beliefs, abilities, and applications. He emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, honesty, and transparency in leadership and the need for adaptability and simplicity in leadership practices. The conversation also delves into the concept of

Engagement Exchange: What are some real, actual things you can do to increase employee engagement right now?

Jan 16 2025 10 mins

Since employee engagement is such an integral part of the success (or failure) of not just a business, but of the individual leaders within that business, The Hacking Your Leadership Podcast will be discussing all aspects of employee engagement on our Thursday shows this year.Welcome to the Engagement Exchange.Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22174142Become a support

Ep 413: People need to see their leaders as predictable and level-headed.

Jan 13 2025 18 mins

Being predictable is one of the most important things a leader can be. Your people will only come to you with important things if they can predict how you'll react to them (and if the prediction is that you're level-headed). On this episode, we dicsuss a LinkedIn post by a colleague. Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22174142Become a supporter of this podcast: https:/

Engagement Exchange: When you apologize, is it effective?

Jan 09 2025 12 mins

There are right ways and wrong ways to aplogize. There are also some instances where simply apologizing isn't even effective. Today we discuss a conversation between Adam Grant and Malcolm Gladwell.Welcome to the Engagement Exchange.Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22174142Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-po

Ep 412: Sometimes, leaders cause disengagement while attempting to fix it.

Jan 06 2025 20 mins

We all know it's important to interact with your people often if you want them to be engaged. But if you're doing it in the wrong way you can end up stifling engagement instead.Link to Forbes Leadership arricle: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianehamilton/2025/01/04/quiet-quitters-vs-loud-leaders-the-new-battle-for-workplace-culture/Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22

Holiday Hacks 2024: Top HR Trends Going Into 2025 (10 of 10)

Jan 02 2025 13 mins

Over the next 10 Holiday Hacks, we break down the most important trends in Human Resources as we go into 2025.Link to article: https://www.aihr.com/blog/hr-trends/Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22174142Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hacking-your-leadership-podcast--4805674/support.