{"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 an Employee Who Always Says They Are Too Busy","slug":"how-to-manage-an-employee-who-always-says-they-are-too-busy","published_at":"2026-06-26T04:34:19+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-an-employee-who-always-says-they-are-too-busy","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-0075.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0075.mp3","summary":"In Episode 75 of The Manager's Hour, Lucas and Luna tackle a challenge every manager has faced: the employee who consistently says they are too busy to take on new work, help colleagues, or even attend meetings. But is it really a workload problem, or something else? The hosts break down the difference between genuine overload and the 'busy badge' culture, share a specific case of a marketing manager who claimed to be 80-hour weeks yet produced average output, and offer three concrete diagnostic questions to figure out what's really going on. They also discuss how to have the conversation without making the employee defensive, and when to redesign a role versus coach a behavior change. No platitudes, no 'just prioritize better' — just specific techniques rooted in observation and trust. If you have a team member who perpetually seems swamped, this episode will give you a framework to get past the busy claim and find the real bottleneck. #TooBusy #WorkloadManagement #OverworkCulture #BusyBadge #TimeManagement #TeamProductivity #EmployeeCoaching #ManagerTips #Delegation #CapacityPlanning #WorkLifeBalance #PeopleManagement #LeadershipSkills #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheManagersHour #Episode75 #ManagementAdvice Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"In Episode 75 of The Manager's Hour, Lucas and Luna tackle a challenge every manager has faced: the employee who consistently says they are too busy to ta…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":483,"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-an-employee-who-always-says-they-are-too-busy/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-an-employee-who-always-says-they-are-too-busy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}