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Hosted by Lia Garvin · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 244 episodes
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Managing Made Simple is a weekly leadership and management podcast for people managers, business owners, and founders who want to lead high-performing teams without falling back into the work themselves. Each week, host Lia Garvin- 3x bestselling author and former team operations leader at Google, Apple, and Microsoft- breaks down the real, everyday challenges of leading teams, giving feedback, delegating, creating team accountability, high performing culture, retention, and more with performance with practical strategies you can implement immediately. Lia’s work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune. With Lia, you get real talk and actionable leadership insights that make it easier to manage your team and get better results from your people. If you’re asking leadership questions like: • How do I get my team to take ownership and accountability for their work? • Why do I hav
Lia Garvin hosts Managing Made Simple, a business show with 244 episodes published.
The headlines said AI would be cheaper than your team. The receipts say otherwise. If you jumped in fast and are feeling the cost, or you've been holding back wondering if you're already behind, this one is your reset. L
You got promoted. Your closest work friend is now your direct report. And what felt like it would be easy is now the most uncomfortable relationship in your professional life. This episode is for you. Lia shares her own
You handed it off, checked in along the way, set the non-negotiables -- and it still came back not right. That gut punch is real. And what you do in the next five minutes determines whether delegation ever actually works
You handed something off, it came back wrong, and you took it back. The problem wasn't your team. The step that was missing is what this episode is about. In Part 2 of a 3-part delegation series, Lia breaks down the thre
You know you should delegate, but every time you try to start, you freeze and end up keeping all of it. This episode solves that. In a 10-minute exercise you can run every month, I show you how to figure out exactly what
You know you're in too deep. The question is how to actually get out without everything falling apart. This episode is the follow-up to last week's look at The Accidental Micromanager, and it's the part nobody tells you:
Nobody becomes a micromanager on purpose. But if your team is double-checking everything with you, you're in every meeting, and your high performers keep asking for more work you're not handing over, you might be doing i
Your best team member just told you they might be making a move in six to twelve months. The gut-drop is real. And the instinct to stop investing, to start the mental transition, to quietly begin the handoff, is complete
You made the big hire. They have the experience, the track record, the resume. A few weeks in, something feels off and you're starting to wonder if you made the right call. This isn't usually a people problem. It's almos
You introduced the new tool. You explained it. You maybe made a Loom. And your team is still doing it the old way. This isn't a people problem- it's almost always a framing problem. When leaders lead with what the organi
You've done the work. You've hired people, set expectations, had the conversations. And you're still the final sign off on everything. Still in too many meetings. Still making decisions you shouldn't have to be making. T
Your team has seen the headlines. And if you haven't addressed it directly, the fear is running in the background of every conversation you're having with them. In this episode I'm breaking down how to actually have the
You handed it off. So why does it keep coming back to you? In this episode I'm getting into one of the most common places leaders get stuck: delegation. Not whether to delegate, most of us know we should. But how to do i
"I don't want to feel corporate." It's something I hear from almost every business owner I work with. And then in the same breath, they tell me they don't know what their team is working on, they're making every single d
Yesterday in a client session, something came up that I had to bring straight to the show. A business owner with multiple thriving locations told me her approach to underperformance: she has the conversation right away.
When is the last time you looked at a situation on your team and thought "I shouldn't have to deal with this"? Earlier today? Then this episode is for you. On the show I break down why this phrase is so common, especiall
After a pretty rough experience at Lenscrafters, Lia gets into one of the most common challenges small business owners face: how do you get your team to actually show up for customers when you can't force anyone to care?
You've got feedback to give. A lot of it. But every time you try, it either comes out as a running list of corrections or it never comes out at all because you don't know where to start. In this episode, Lia answers a re
You hired talented people, asked them to lead, and yet they're still coming to you for final approval on *everything*. It feels like you're micromanaging, even though you desperately want to be hands-off. You don't want
You know the feeling. Their name pops up on your calendar and your stomach drops just a little. They are not low performers. They are actually delivering. But something about the dynamic makes leading them harder than it
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Managing Made Simple is hosted by Lia Garvin. The show is categorised under business (management) and has published 244 episodes.
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