{"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 Handle a Toxic High Performer on Your Team","slug":"how-to-handle-a-toxic-high-performer-on-your-team","published_at":"2026-06-10T04:27:34+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622/how-to-handle-a-toxic-high-performer-on-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-0042.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0042.mp3","summary":"Lucas and Luna tackle one of the hardest management dilemmas: a team member who consistently delivers outstanding results but poisons the culture. Drawing on a real case from a mid-size SaaS company, they explore the hidden costs of keeping a 'brilliant jerk' — lost talent, eroded trust, and long-term damage to team performance. Lucas shares a three-step framework for diagnosing true toxicity versus mere abrasiveness, and they discuss how to structure a conversation that sets clear behavioral expectations without demotivating the star. Luna pushes back on the idea that all high performers are worth saving, and they land on a practical litmus test for when it's time to let someone go. This episode is for any manager who has ever told themselves 'the results are worth it' and wondered if that was true. #ToxicHighPerformer #BrilliantJerk #ManagementDilemma #PeopleManagement #TeamCulture #LeadershipSkills #HireSlowFireFast #BehavioralExpectations #ManagerTraining #EmployeeRetention #TeamChemistry #PerformanceManagement #DifficultConversations #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #ManagersHour #Fexingo Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Lucas and Luna tackle one of the hardest management dilemmas: a team member who consistently delivers outstanding results but poisons the culture. Drawing…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":531,"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-handle-a-toxic-high-performer-on-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-handle-a-toxic-high-performer-on-your-team.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}