{"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 Will Get to It Later","slug":"how-to-manage-the-employee-who-always-says-i-will-get-to-it-later","published_at":"2026-07-15T04:38:34+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-will-get-to-it-later","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-0115.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0115.mp3","summary":"In this episode of The Manager's Hour, Lucas and Luna tackle a common but frustrating workplace pattern: the employee who constantly says 'I'll get to it later' but never does. They break down why this happens — from task aversion to perfectionism to passive resistance — and offer concrete strategies for managers. Lucas shares a case study from a mid-sized marketing agency where a senior designer's 'later' habit delayed three client launches by a combined eight weeks. He walks through the step-by-step intervention that turned it around: setting micro-deadlines, conducting a 48-hour check-in cadence, and shifting from 'when will it be done' to 'what will you have done by 3 pm today'. Luna adds a behavioral science perspective, citing research on the 'planning fallacy' and how breaking tasks into smaller chunks improves follow-through. The episode also touches on when 'I'll get to it later' signals burnout or misalignment — and how to distinguish that from simple avoidance. Listeners walk away with a specific three-question diagnostic and a follow-up framework they can use at their next one-on-one. #TheManagersHour #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #PeopleManagement #TeamBuilding #LeadershipSkills #Procrastination #Delegation #EmployeeEngagement #TaskManagement #ManagingUp #OneOnOnes #Accountability #BehavioralScience #PlanningFallacy #MicroDeadlines #WorkplaceProductivity #ManagementTips Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"In this episode of The Manager's Hour, Lucas and Luna tackle a common but frustrating workplace pattern: the employee who constantly says 'I'll get to it…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":477,"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-will-get-to-it-later/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-will-get-to-it-later.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}