{"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 Theyre Overworked","slug":"how-to-manage-an-employee-who-always-says-theyre-overworked","published_at":"2026-07-16T16:42:42+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-theyre-overworked","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-0118.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0118.mp3","summary":"In this episode of The Manager's Hour, hosts Lucas and Luna tackle a common but tricky management challenge: the employee who consistently claims they are overworked. Lucas shares a specific case from a mid-sized marketing agency where a senior graphic designer, Emily, felt overwhelmed despite data showing her output was below peers. The episode drills into the difference between perceived workload and actual capacity, offering a concrete three-step framework: audit the work, check for hidden inefficiencies, and reframe expectations. Lucas explains how to conduct a workload audit without triggering defensiveness, and Luna adds insight on the psychological factors like productivity guilt and presenteeism that amplify the feeling of overload. They discuss how one manager helped Emily identify that excessive internal meetings and perfectionism were the real culprits, not the volume of work. The episode also touches on how to handle situations where the employee genuinely is overworked. By the end, listeners will have a practical approach to move from 'I can't do more' to a constructive conversation about priorities and support. #OverworkedEmployees #WorkloadManagement #PeopleManagement #Leadership #ManagerTips #EmployeeBurnout #Productivity #CapacityPlanning #TeamManagement #PerformanceCoaching #HiddenInefficiencies #Perfectionism #Presenteeism #WorkAudit #ExpectationSetting #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"In this episode of The Manager's Hour, hosts Lucas and Luna tackle a common but tricky management challenge: the employee who consistently claims they are…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":438,"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-theyre-overworked/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-theyre-overworked.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}