{"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 Get Honest Feedback From Your Team","slug":"how-to-get-honest-feedback-from-your-team","published_at":"2026-06-16T16:32:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622/how-to-get-honest-feedback-from-your-team","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-0056.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0056.mp3","summary":"Lucas and Luna tackle one of the hardest leadership challenges: getting your team to tell you the truth. Lucas shares a story from Bridgewater Associates where Ray Dalio's radical transparency backfired—employees nodded along in meetings but vented secretly in chat logs. They break down why direct 'how am I doing' questions don't work, and offer four practical alternatives: the last-ten-percent question, the anonymous pulse check, the skip-level meeting, and the 'start-stop-continue' exercise. Luna brings in data from a 2023 Wiley survey that found 63 percent of employees withhold critical feedback from their manager for fear of retaliation. The episode includes a warm, natural donation segment about listener support keeping the show ad-free. No theory—just specific scripts you can use in your next one-on-one. #Feedback #HonestFeedback #Leadership #Management #RadicalTransparency #PsychologicalSafety #BridgewaterAssociates #RayDalio #SkipLevelMeeting #AnonymousPulse #OneOnOne #ManagerTips #TeamCulture #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheManagersHour #PeopleManagement Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Lucas and Luna tackle one of the hardest leadership challenges: getting your team to tell you the truth. Lucas shares a story from Bridgewater Associates…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":515,"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-get-honest-feedback-from-your-team/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-get-honest-feedback-from-your-team.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}