{"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 Manage a Former Peer Who Resents Your Promotion","slug":"how-to-manage-a-former-peer-who-resents-your-promotion","published_at":"2026-06-11T16:41:38+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622/how-to-manage-a-former-peer-who-resents-your-promotion","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-0045.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0045.mp3","summary":"Episode 45 of The Manager's Hour tackles one of the most delicate transitions in management: being promoted above a close peer. Lucas and Luna dissect the psychology of resentment, using a real case from a mid-sized SaaS company where a newly promoted team lead lost two direct reports within six months because she didn't address the elephant in the room. They walk through a three-step framework: acknowledging the loss, renegotiating the relationship, and proving your new value without overcompensating. Listeners will learn the exact language to use in that first tough one-on-one, why avoiding the resentment makes it worse, and how to spot the difference between healthy friction and irreparable damage. No platitudes. Just the uncomfortable conversation you need to have. #ManagerHour #NewManager #PeerPromotion #TeamDynamics #WorkplaceRelationships #LeadershipTransition #ManagementAdvice #Resentment #EmotionalIntelligence #CareerGrowth #SaaS #OneOnOne #TrustBuilding #ConflictResolution #FirstTimeManager #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 45 of The Manager's Hour tackles one of the most delicate transitions in management: being promoted above a close peer. Lucas and Luna dissect the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":598,"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-manage-a-former-peer-who-resents-your-promotion/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-manage-a-former-peer-who-resents-your-promotion.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}