{"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 Hoards Information","slug":"managing-a-team-member-who-hoards-information","published_at":"2026-06-24T04:34:46+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-hoards-information","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-0071.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0071.mp3","summary":"This episode of The Manager's Hour tackles a common but tricky leadership challenge: the team member who strategically withholds information to maintain power. Lucas and Luna break down why this behavior emerges, how it erodes trust and slows down decision-making, and a concrete three-step approach to address it without triggering defensiveness. They discuss the subtle difference between privacy and hoarding, how to reframe transparency as a strength rather than a vulnerability, and what to do if the behavior persists. The conversation grounds the advice in real-world dynamics any manager will recognize, with practical language you can use in your next one-on-one. #InformationHoarding #KnowledgeSharing #TeamTrust #ManagerSkills #Leadership #PeopleManagement #WorkplaceCulture #Transparency #Communication #OneOnOneMeetings #PowerDynamics #PsychologicalSafety #Collaboration #Delegation #Business #ManagementTips #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"This episode of The Manager's Hour tackles a common but tricky leadership challenge: the team member who strategically withholds information to maintain p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":496,"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/managing-a-team-member-who-hoards-information/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/managing-a-team-member-who-hoards-information.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}