{"podcast":{"title":"The Manager's Hour with Fexingo: People Management, Team Building, and Leadership Skills","slug":"the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622","podcast_index_feed_id":7871622,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":122,"summary":"Lucas and Luna explore the craft of people management in a series of focused conversations grounded in real-world cases and data. Each episode tackles a specific management challenge—hiring for culture fit vs. skill, conducting effective performance reviews, navigating team conflict, delegating without losing control, or building psychological safety in hybrid teams. Lucas brings the research (Gallup engagement data, Google's Project Aristotle, HBR case studies) and Luna pushes back with frontline practice from her own experience managing teams of ten to fifty. They avoid platitudes; instead, they walk through concrete scenarios like how to tell a high performer they're not getting promoted, how to run a retrospective that doesn't devolve into blame, and how to set boundaries with a CEO who keeps bypassing the chain of command. The show serves mid-level managers who have six to twenty direct reports and want to get better at the human side of leadership—not the theory, but the messy, daily work of helping people grow. Lucas and Luna don't pretend to have all the answers, but they ask the right questions: what do you owe the employee who is good but not great? How do you balance fa…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T04:17:55.133432+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622"},"episode":{"title":"How to Coach Your Team Without Giving Answers","slug":"how-to-coach-your-team-without-giving-answers","published_at":"2026-06-09T04:30:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622/how-to-coach-your-team-without-giving-answers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0040.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0040.mp3","summary":"Episode 40 of The Manager's Hour tackles a challenge every manager faces: when a team member brings you a problem, how do you resist the urge to just solve it for them? Lucas and Luna explore the coaching technique called 'ask-don't-tell' using the Socratic method adapted for one-on-ones. They walk through a real-world case: a marketing manager whose direct report keeps asking 'what should I do?' and how shifting from answer-giver to question-asker transformed the team's ownership and problem-solving skills. They share three specific question types to use instead: clarifying questions, probing questions, and action-forcing questions. Plus, a practical framework called the 'five-why loop' adapted for coaching. No theory — just a concrete playbook for the next time someone walks into your office looking for you to fix their problem. If you've ever felt exhausted by being the sole decision-maker on your team, this episode gives you a way out. #Coaching #Management #Leadership #SocraticMethod #AskDontTell #TeamDevelopment #ProblemSolving #EmployeeEmpowerment #OneOnOne #ManagerSkills #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheManagersHour #PeopleManagement #CoachingSkills #QuestioningTechnique #FiveWhys Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 40 of The Manager's Hour tackles a challenge every manager faces: when a team member brings you a problem, how do you resist the urge to just solv…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":574,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622/episodes/how-to-coach-your-team-without-giving-answers/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622/how-to-coach-your-team-without-giving-answers.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}