{"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 Team Member Who Always Says 'That's Not My Job'","slug":"how-to-manage-a-team-member-who-always-says-that-s-not-my-job","published_at":"2026-07-02T16:46:01+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-team-member-who-always-says-that-s-not-my-job","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-0089.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0089.mp3","summary":"In this episode of The Manager's Hour, Lucas and Luna tackle a common leadership challenge: the employee who draws rigid boundaries around their role. Using the example of a senior developer at a mid-sized SaaS company who refused to help with documentation because 'that's not my job,' they explore why this behavior emerges—often from fear of being taken advantage of or a desire for clarity—and how to address it without damaging morale. Lucas shares a framework from the book 'The Culture Code' by Daniel Coyle about psychological safety, and Luna offers a real-world tactic she used as a team lead at a marketing agency: redefining job descriptions as 'responsibility areas' rather than checklists. They discuss how to have a candid conversation that shifts the employee from a fixed to a growth mindset, using a specific script. The episode also covers when this behavior signals a bigger problem like burnout or misalignment. No ads, just practical advice for managers. #ManagerChallenge #ThatsNotMyJob #TeamBoundaries #LeadershipScripts #PsychologicalSafety #GrowthMindset #EmployeeCoaching #RoleClarity #DanielCoyle #TheCultureCode #SaaS #MarketingAgency #DifficultConversations #ManagementSkills #TeamBuilding #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"In this episode of The Manager's Hour, Lucas and Luna tackle a common leadership challenge: the employee who draws rigid boundaries around their role. Usi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":525,"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-team-member-who-always-says-that-s-not-my-job/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-team-member-who-always-says-that-s-not-my-job.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}