{"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 Give Feedback That Actually Changes Behavior","slug":"how-to-give-feedback-that-actually-changes-behavior","published_at":"2026-06-15T04:27:43+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622/how-to-give-feedback-that-actually-changes-behavior","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-0053.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0053.mp3","summary":"Most managers dread giving corrective feedback because it feels like criticism, and even if it's delivered well, the employee often goes back to the old behavior within a week. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dissect why standard feedback fails and offer a specific, research-backed alternative: the behavioral baseline method. They walk through a real case from a mid-stage SaaS company where a product manager kept derailing standups with tangents. The hosts show how to isolate the specific observable behavior, separate it from personality, and frame the feedback as a shared experiment rather than a verdict. Lucas shares a simple script that turns 'you dominate the conversation' into 'fifteen minutes of your time is now your call, and if you run over, we gently redirect.' Luna pushes back on whether this is just performance review theater, and Lucas cites a 2023 study from the Journal of Applied Psychology that found this approach reduces defensiveness by 40 percent. By the end, listeners have a repeatable framework they can use in their next one-on-one, not just a vague intention to be better at feedback. #Feedback #Management #Leadership #BehavioralChange #Coaching #PerformanceFeedback #OneOnOne #Communication #ManagerSkills #EmployeeDevelopment #ConstructiveCriticism #WorkplacePsychology #TeamManagement #PeopleManagement #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheManagersHour #LeadershipSkills Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Most managers dread giving corrective feedback because it feels like criticism, and even if it's delivered well, the employee often goes back to the old b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":564,"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-give-feedback-that-actually-changes-behavior/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-give-feedback-that-actually-changes-behavior.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}