{"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 Takes Credit for Your Work","slug":"how-to-manage-a-team-member-who-takes-credit-for-your-work","published_at":"2026-06-13T17:25:22+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-takes-credit-for-your-work","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-0050.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0050.mp3","summary":"Lucas and Luna tackle a delicate but common leadership challenge: what to do when a direct report consistently presents your ideas or contributions as their own. They discuss why this happens—from insecurity to office politics—and outline a calm, specific, non-accusatory script for addressing it in a one-on-one. Lucas shares a real example from his own early management days, including the moment he realized calling someone out publicly made things worse. Luna offers a framing shift: instead of 'credit-taking,' think 'visibility negotiation.' They walk through three concrete steps—documenting patterns, naming the behavior without labeling the person, and offering a joint path forward. The episode closes with a reflection on why this issue, if unchecked, erodes trust not just with you but across the whole team. Practical, direct, and built for managers who want to preserve relationships while protecting their own work. #CreditTaking #WorkplaceCredit #ManagingUp #LeadershipSkills #PeopleManagement #TeamBuilding #ManagerAdvice #DifficultConversations #WorkplacePolitics #TrustOnTeams #VisibilityAtWork #ManagerialCourage #OfficeDynamics #CareerGrowth #CommunicationSkills #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Lucas and Luna tackle a delicate but common leadership challenge: what to do when a direct report consistently presents your ideas or contributions as the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":596,"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-takes-credit-for-your-work/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-takes-credit-for-your-work.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}