{"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 We Tried That Before","slug":"how-to-manage-a-team-member-who-always-says-we-tried-that-before","published_at":"2026-06-30T04:36:23+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-we-tried-that-before","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-0083.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0083.mp3","summary":"Episode 83 tackles the manager's challenge of the employee who dismisses new ideas with 'We tried that before.' Lucas and Luna dig into why this resistance often masks a deeper need for psychological safety, respect, or ownership. They share a concrete framework for moving from 'here's why it won't work' to 'here's what we need to make it work this time.' Specific tactics include how to reframe the conversation using data from a different market context, and how to assign the naysayer a pilot role to turn skepticism into productive scrutiny. No generic advice — this is about real behavioral change in a Tuesday morning meeting. #WeTriedThatBefore #ResistanceToChange #ManagingSkepticism #TeamDynamics #LeadershipSkills #PeopleManagement #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #ChangeManagement #PsychologicalSafety #EmployeeEngagement #DifficultConversations #Innovation #CultureChange #GrowthMindset #ManagerialCourage #PodcastEpisode Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 83 tackles the manager's challenge of the employee who dismisses new ideas with 'We tried that before.' Lucas and Luna dig into why this resistanc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":445,"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-we-tried-that-before/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-we-tried-that-before.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}