{"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 Constantly Interrupts","slug":"how-to-manage-an-employee-who-constantly-interrupts","published_at":"2026-06-20T04:33:26+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-constantly-interrupts","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-0063.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0063.mp3","summary":"In this episode of The Manager's Hour, Lucas and Luna tackle a workplace dynamic that drains energy and derails meetings: the chronic interrupter. Drawing on a 2025 study from the Journal of Organizational Behavior that found interruptions in team discussions reduce psychological safety by 22 percent, they explore why some people interrupt — from high-processing speed to anxiety about losing their thought — and how managers can address it without creating resentment. The conversation centers on a specific case: a product manager at a mid-sized SaaS company who interrupted colleagues during sprint retrospectives. Lucas walks through a four-step intervention: naming the pattern with data, asking a genuine curiosity question, creating a non-verbal cue for turn-taking, and looping back to the interrupter after others speak. Luna pushes back on whether this approach works for senior or high-performer interrupters, and Lucas shares a counterintuitive insight about interrupters often being the most engaged — not the least considerate. They also discuss structural fixes like speaking tokens and talking stick (yes, literally) for recurring team meetings. The episode closes with a reflection on managing intent versus impact. #ManagingInterrupters #PeopleManagement #TeamBuilding #LeadershipSkills #PsychologicalSafety #MeetingEtiquette #WorkplaceCommunication #DifficultConversations #ManagerTools #ProductManagement #HighPerformers #TurnTaking #SprintRetrospectives #BehavioralChange #Business #Leadership #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"In this episode of The Manager's Hour, Lucas and Luna tackle a workplace dynamic that drains energy and derails meetings: the chronic interrupter. 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