{"podcast":{"title":"Leman Tech Leadership Podcast","slug":"leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357","podcast_index_feed_id":7045357,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6343272/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/leman-tech-leadership-podcast--6343272","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/4982bc323b348940ab5d4a08c6dc9c37.jpg","author":"Aleksandra Lemańska","episode_count":197,"summary":"Leman Tech Leadership Podcast Welcome to the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, your ultimate guide to developing exceptional tech leadership skills. Whether you're a seasoned tech leader or just stepping into a managerial role, this podcast is designed to provide you with actionable insights and best practices to create a thriving work environment that people won't want to leave. Learn how to do it with host Aleksandra Lemańska, CQ Technology Leadership Mentor & Speaker. Founder @LemanSkills, Co-Founder & Board President @Startup Community Poznan Foundation, Host @Leman Tech Leadership Podcast. She is the creator of the CQ Leadership Method: a battle-tested framework that helps tech leaders communicate with precision and lead without burnout. Join Alex as she delves deep into the secrets of effective leadership, from mastering essential tools to implementing cutting-edge techniques. Each episode brings you invaluable knowledge, practical advice, or unique perspectives through engaging interviews with leaders who have experiences and lessons to share. Discover the dos and don’ts of tech leadership, learn about the habits that drive success, and gather strategies to foster a motivated…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-17T12:19:11.454164+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357"},"episode":{"title":"#181 | I Don't Have Answers (and My Team Needs Them Anyway)","slug":"181-i-don-t-have-answers-and-my-team-needs-them-anyway","published_at":"2026-07-28T03:30:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357/181-i-don-t-have-answers-and-my-team-needs-them-anyway","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/181-i-don-t-have-answers-and-my-team-needs-them-anyway--73043336","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73043336/181_i_don_t_have_answers_and_my_team_needs_them_anyway.mp3","summary":"▶︎ #181 | I Don't Have Answers (and My Team Needs Them Anyway) In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska tackles a subject listeners have been asking her about for years: what to actually say and do when your team needs answers, and you don't have them. Reorganizations, AI-driven restructuring, rolling layoffs, hiring freezes that appear and disappear without warning (change has become constant, not a rare crisis). Alex names the two instinctive but costly patterns leaders fall into under this pressure: manufactured certainty (\"everything's fine\"), which quietly destroys trust the moment reality catches up, and silence, which teams read as something being hidden. Both come from the same well-meaning impulse: protecting the team from discomfort. Her reframe is the heart of the episode: that was never the job. The job is helping people hold real information, including the information you don't have yet. Alex applies the Wheel of Conflict in a new way here, splitting uncertainty itself into a structural layer (the actual, sometimes-unknowable facts) and a relational layer (trust, anxiety, whether people feel like a priority) and shows why leaders who try to resolve the second with facts they don't have end up either overpromising or going quiet. The episode closes with a simple three-part script listeners can use starting this week, plus a clear challenge: name the one thing you've been avoiding telling your team plainly, and say it, honestly, this week. Mentioned in the episode: \"From Code to People: The CQ Leadership Method That Transforms Technical Experts into Leaders Teams Actually Want to Work For\": https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemansk…","meta_description":"▶︎ #181 | I Don't Have Answers (and My Team Needs Them Anyway) In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska tackles a su…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1005,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357/episodes/181-i-don-t-have-answers-and-my-team-needs-them-anyway/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357/181-i-don-t-have-answers-and-my-team-needs-them-anyway.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}