{"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":"Managing a Team Member Who Always Says I Will Get to It Later","slug":"managing-a-team-member-who-always-says-i-will-get-to-it-later","published_at":"2026-07-01T07:39:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622/managing-a-team-member-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-0086.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0086.mp3","summary":"Lucas and Luna tackle a common leadership frustration: the employee who habitually defers tasks with 'I'll get to it later.' Lucas shares a specific case from a mid-size logistics company where a senior analyst's chronic procrastination on quarterly reports threw off the entire finance team's close cycle. They explore why 'later' often signals a deeper issue—fear of imperfection, unclear prioritization, or a hidden workload bottleneck—rather than simple laziness. Lucas walks through the three-step conversation framework he used to coach that analyst out of the pattern: first, naming the observable behavior without judgment; second, collaboratively investigating the 'why' behind the delay using a structured root-cause question; third, co-creating a micro-commitment system that breaks deferred tasks into smaller, time-bound actions. Luna pushes back with a real scenario from her own experience managing a remote designer whose 'later' turned into weeks, and Lucas reframes the conversation to address accountability without micromanagement. The episode closes on the distinction between chronic procrastinators and genuinely overloaded employees, and why the best managers learn to tell the difference. #ManagingLater #Procrastination #EmployeeCoaching #LeadershipSkills #PeopleManagement #Delegation #Accountability #TeamDynamics #WorkplaceProductivity #TimeManagement #BehavioralCoaching #ManagementTips #BusinessPodcast #FexingoBusiness #ManagersHour #LucasAndLuna #CommunicationSkills #RootCauseAnalysis Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Lucas and Luna tackle a common leadership frustration: the employee who habitually defers tasks with 'I'll get to it later.' 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