Leader's Lens

In this episode, Jacob sits down with Mario Carrasco, co-founder of Think Now Global. Mario shares his philosophy on employee investment, including why he believes the more you put into your team, the more they will stay and thrive with you. The pair delve into the challenges of maintaining a global workforce, emphasizing the importance of face-to-face time with employees to foster a sense of personal connection. Mario also speaks on the benefits of letting employees learn from failure and the value of setting a regular cadence for remote meetings. Plus, what does Mario think can help set remote teams up for success? Tune in for a candid discussion on leading and nurturing a global team. Learn More About Think Now Global: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thinknowglobal/ Follow Mario: Email: mario@thinknow.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marioxcarrasco/ Follow Jacob:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeespi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJacobEspi Ready to unlock the secret to developing a healthy, happy, and more profitable team? Then check out my newest development course and learn to start leading from your team’s collective strengths. And if you’re looking for deep dives, tactics and the resources you need to up your leadership game, you need Leader’s Lens - Jacob’s twice-weekly newsletter. Sign up here: https://workweek.com/brand/leaders-lens/ Stop wasting time and money by churning through employees and missing business goals. The Predictive Index helps you create a people-focused strategy and provides a clear understanding of how to improve employee experience, morale, and performance, leading to higher productivity and better business results.https://trypi.com/leaders

What do people say about your company when you're not in the room? Nothing, or at least not much at all, if you don’t focus on building your brand presence correctly, according to branding expert, Oren Johns. Oren chats with Jacob about the best framework to establish your personal brand and how to harness the power of social media to amplify your personal and brand voice. Plus, find out why Oren thinks that you need to get comfortable talking about yourself if you ever want to build a successful business.  Follow Oren: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orenj/ Follow Jacob:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeespi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJacobEspi And if you’re looking for deep dives, tactics and the resources you need to up your leadership game, you need Leader’s Lens - Jacob’s twice-weekly newsletter. Sign up here: https://workweek.com/brand/leaders-lens/ Stop wasting time and money by churning through employees and missing business goals. The Predictive Index helps you create a people-focused strategy and provides a clear understanding of how to improve employee experience, morale, and performance, leading to higher productivity and better business results.https://trypi.com/leaders

What’s the best mindset you can adopt in order to become more successful at an executive-level job? According to Executive CEO Coach Christine Carillo, who’s built and led three companies to over $200 million in revenue, self-awareness is a vital characteristic that any great leader needs to possess in order to become successful. She’s sitting down with Jacob to discuss why so many CEOs seem to lack it— and what you can do today in order to develop a great sense of self-awareness in the workplace. Then, she and Jacob chat about the value of protecting mental capacity and why leaders should focus more on the decision-making process than the decision itself.  Follow Christine: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ChristinecarrilWebsite: https://www.christinecarrillo.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinecarrillo/ Follow Jacob:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeespi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJacobEspi Ready to unlock the secret to developing a healthy, happy, and more profitable team? Then check out my newest development course and learn to start leading from your team’s collective strengths. And if you’re looking for deep dives, tactics and the resources you need to up your leadership game, you need Leader’s Lens - Jacob’s twice-weekly newsletter. Sign up here: https://workweek.com/brand/leaders-lens/ Stop wasting time and money by churning through employees and missing business goals. The Predictive Index helps you create a people-focused strategy and provides a clear understanding of how to improve employee experience, morale, and performance, leading to higher productivity and better business results.https://trypi.com/leaders

What pushes the world’s most extraordinary entrepreneurs into a place of excellence? Is it dysfunction? Overcoming adversity? Or perhaps the desire to fill in the gaps of self-worth by creating an unmistakable legacy? While all of the above may be true, for the Founder of Women Who Startup, Lizelle Van Vuuren, great leaders should always be additive and leave the world better than they found it. For Lizelle, too many leaders get lost in the notion that they must be dysfunctional in order to succeed and don’t take the time to ask themselves why they’re so committed to building something great in the first place.In this week’s episode, she and Jacob dive into why resilience is such a common trait among entrepreneurs, why the journey of entrepreneurship should be a journey of personal growth, and why every leader should consider having a personal coach and a therapist in their back pocket.  Follow Lizelle: Website: lizellevanvuuren.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizellevanvuuren/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@heylizelle Follow Jacob:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeespi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJacobEspi Ready to unlock the secret to developing a healthy, happy, and more profitable team? Then check out my newest development course and learn to start leading from your team’s collective strengths. And if you’re looking for deep dives, tactics and the resources you need to up your leadership game, you need Leader’s Lens - Jacob’s twice-weekly newsletter. Sign up here: https://workweek.com/brand/leaders-lens/ Stop wasting time and money by churning through employees and missing business goals. The Predictive Index helps you create a people-focused strategy and provides a clear understanding of how to improve employee experience, morale, and performance, leading to higher productivity and better business results.https://trypi.com/leaders 

When people actively enjoy working for your company, it’s a huge competitive advantage. So what can you do as a leader to foster an environment where employees feel seen and heard? Andrew Gazdecki talks to Jacob about what he’s doing to create a positive work environment for his company, Acquire, and how he thinks about maintaining and building culture as a company grows. Learn why Andrew believes you should always listen to employees when they tell you they’re burnt out and why understanding your team’s goals is crucial to cultivating a supportive environment. Plus, what advice does Andrew have to give to other leaders who may not be certain about their role? Tune in to find out! Learn More About Acquire: https://acquire.com Follow Andrew: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/ Follow Jacob:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeespi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJacobEspi Ready to unlock the secret to developing a healthy, happy, and more profitable team? Then check out my newest development course and learn to start leading from your team’s collective strengths. And if you’re looking for deep dives, tactics and the resources you need to up your leadership game, you need Leader’s Lens - Jacob’s twice-weekly newsletter. Sign up here: https://workweek.com/brand/leaders-lens/ Stop wasting time and money by churning through employees and missing business goals. The Predictive Index helps you create a people-focused strategy and provides a clear understanding of how to improve employee experience, morale, and performance, leading to higher productivity and better business results.https://trypi.com/leaders

The first 14 days at a company are critical. Find out what Professor of business psychology, Michael Steiner, has to say about how new hires can make the most out of their first 14 days at work.Michael and Jacob discuss the tangible steps you can take to set yourself up for success at a new company and then delve into some of the biggest mistakes leaders make to impact trust.Why is consistency the one thing you can't afford not to do during your first two weeks of work?Later, Michael flips the script on Jacob to ask him about his beliefs about what makes a great leader.Follow Michael:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drmichaelsteiner?lang=en Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thedrmsteinerFollow Jacob:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeespi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJacobEspiReady to unlock the secret to developing a healthy, happy, and more profitable team? Then check out my newest development course and learn to start leading from your team’s collective strengths. And if you’re looking for deep dives, tactics and the resources you need to up your leadership game, you need Leader’s Lens - Jacob’s twice-weekly newsletter. Sign up here: https://workweek.com/brand/leaders-lens/ Stop wasting time and money by churning through employees and missing business goals. The Predictive Index helps you create a people-focused strategy and provides a clear understanding of how to improve employee experience, morale, and performance, leading to higher productivity and better business results.https://trypi.com/leaders  

What’s one of the most impactful things you can do to advance your career now?  Jacob sits down with Kurtis Hanni to discuss why data makes the business world go round and how you can leverage those numbers to power your career forward. As a CFO and consultant who helps business leaders to maximize profitability through increased financial literacy, Kurtis shares his top tips for how listeners can utilize their own company’s financial data to tell a story. His advice? Dig past that initial discomfort you feel and discover the metrics you need to help your company achieve its ideal outcome. Plus, Kurtis spills his playbook for the most effective ways to communicate change and how you can go about introducing more data-driven processes into an organization that may be reluctant to adopt them.  Ready to unlock the secret to developing a healthy, happy, and more profitable team? Then check out my newest development course and learn to start leading from your team’s collective strengths. And if you’re looking for deep dives, tactics and the resources you need to up your leadership game, you need Leader’s Lens - Jacob’s twice-weekly newsletter. Sign up here: https://workweek.com/brand/leaders-lens/ Follow Jacob:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeespi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJacobEspiFollow Kurtis:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtishanni/Newsletter: https://join.kurtishanni.com 

In this live virtual event, Jacob talks with fellow podcaster and Conscious Living Facilitator Sukun Chopra about what emotional intelligence is and how it can help reframe the way you think about social conflict. Why is emotional intelligence important to building great leaders? And how can we use it to stop approaching situations from an egocentric point of view so that we can start paving the way for a higher degree of empathy? Then, stay tuned as Jacob and Sukun field audience questions, like how to deliver and receive feedback, and why emotional responses are so common yet still so commonly misunderstood.Follow Sukun: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukun-chopra-1a944148/Podcast: Becoming an Epic BeingFollow Jacob:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeespi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJacobEspiReady to unlock the secret to developing a healthy, happy, and more profitable team? Then check out my newest development course and learn to start leading from your team’s collective strengths.And if you’re looking for deep dives, tactics and the resources you need to up your leadership game, you need Leader’s Lens - Jacob’s twice-weekly newsletter.Sign up here: https://workweek.com/brand/leaders-lens/

This week’s pod is talking about all things feedback with two incredible thought leaders in the sales development and HR space, Gabrielle “GB” Blackwell and Hebba Youssef. GB, Hebba, and Jacob are getting into the nitty gritty about the biggest mistakes managers make when giving feedback and how to counteract it— like feedback that’s not actionable, assuming your employees think exactly like you do, and failing to strike the balance between salty and sweet.  Plus, what tips do Hebba and GB have to give about improving your feedback techniques? Tune in for that, and much, much more! Follow Hebba: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hebba-youssef/Newsletter: https://workweek.com/discover-newsletters/i-hate-it-here-newsletter/ Follow Gabrielle:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielleblackwell/Newsletter: https://workweek.com/discover-newsletters/the-one-on-one/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=one-on-one Follow Jacob:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeespi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJacobEspi And if you’re looking for deep dives, tactics and the resources you need to up your leadership game, you need Leader’s Lens - Jacob’s twice-weekly newsletter. Sign up here: https://workweek.com/brand/leaders-lens/

This week Jacob’s chatting with Jasper Pollock, a fractional COO, about Standard Operation Procedures. You'll learn what they are, why they're important, and what tools you can use to create one for your team.Find out how creating a Standard Operating Procedure can set clear expectations for your team and help standardize your company’s systems and processes.Grab Jasper’s SOP template here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TA9U2KICCaZ2vZlzXcoXgFFp852PsmGt37CalhnNz-E/edit?usp=sharingAnd if you’re looking for deep dives, tactics and the resources you need to up your leadership game, you need Leader’s Lens - Jacob’s twice-weekly newsletter. Sign up here: https://workweek.com/brand/leaders-lens/ Follow Jacob:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeespi/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJacobEspi Follow Jasper: Website: https://www.jasperpolak.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasper-polak-51509325/Twitter: https://twitter.com/polak_jasper?lang=en