{"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 Keeps Falling Back Into Old Habits","slug":"how-to-manage-an-employee-who-keeps-falling-back-into-old-habits","published_at":"2026-06-14T04:28:50+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-keeps-falling-back-into-old-habits","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-0051.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0051.mp3","summary":"Episode 51 of The Manager's Hour tackles a frustrating pattern: you coach a team member, they improve for two weeks, then slide right back. Lucas and Luna unpack why the relapse happens and what to do about it, using the real case of a software team at a midsize logistics firm where a senior developer kept reverting to a lone-wolf coding style despite multiple feedback sessions. They walk through the difference between skill gaps and habit loops, the role of environmental triggers in the workplace, and a three-part intervention that shifts responsibility from the manager to the employee without turning into a performance improvement plan. Specific tactics include reducing the cues that trigger old behavior, building friction into the relapse path, and replacing the reward the old habit used to deliver. If you've ever felt like you're saying the same thing to the same person every month, this episode gives you a framework that actually sticks. #HabitChange #EmployeeCoaching #Management #NewManager #BehavioralChange #FeedbackFrameworks #WorkplacePsychology #PeopleManagement #Leadership #TeamDevelopment #PerformanceCoaching #FexingoBusiness #TheManagersHour #BusinessPodcast #ManagerTips #HabitLoops #CueRoutineReward #LoneWolfEmployee Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 51 of The Manager's Hour tackles a frustrating pattern: you coach a team member, they improve for two weeks, then slide right back. Lucas and Luna…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":547,"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-keeps-falling-back-into-old-habits/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-keeps-falling-back-into-old-habits.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}