{"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 the Employee Who Always Says I'm Too Busy for That","slug":"how-to-manage-the-employee-who-always-says-i-m-too-busy-for-that","published_at":"2026-07-14T16:39:57+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-the-employee-who-always-says-i-m-too-busy-for-that","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-0114.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0114.mp3","summary":"Episode 114 of The Manager's Hour tackles a specific, frustrating leadership pattern: the team member who constantly says 'I'm too busy for that.' Lucas and Luna unpack why this isn't just a time-management problem but often a trust and priority issue. They walk through a real case study from a mid-sized software firm where a senior developer used the 'too busy' line to avoid cross-functional collaboration — and how his manager turned it around by shifting from delegation to dialogue. The hosts share a practical three-question framework to surface what 'too busy' really means, and discuss why the phrase can actually be a hidden communication signal rather than a dead end. This episode offers a concrete approach for managers who want to stop hearing that phrase and start understanding the work that matters most. #ManagingTooBusy #EmployeeResistance #TimeManagement #Leadership #PeopleManagement #TeamBuilding #ManagerTools #WorkplaceCommunication #Delegation #PrioritySetting #Trust #Business #Careers #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheManagersHour #LucasAndLuna #Episode114 Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 114 of The Manager's Hour tackles a specific, frustrating leadership pattern: the team member who constantly says 'I'm too busy for that.' Lucas a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":453,"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-the-employee-who-always-says-i-m-too-busy-for-that/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-the-employee-who-always-says-i-m-too-busy-for-that.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}