Oct 27, 202614 min
Learning how to hold your team accountable can start with something as small as two words: "I need." When you make an ask about what you need, your team member's job turns into a favor to you, and the follow-through...
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Managing Made Simple
Hosted by Lia Garvin · business · EN
About this Podcast:
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 have to repeat myself constantly as a manager?• How do
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What is Managing Made Simple about?
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.
Who hosts Managing Made Simple?
Managing Made Simple is hosted by Lia Garvin. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
What has Managing Made Simple covered recently?
Recent episodes include "How to hold your team accountable: drop these two words." (27 October 2026, 14 minutes), "Second in command not stepping up? Wrong fit or wrong expectations" (20 October 2026, 16 minutes), and "3 things great leaders do, no matter the team size or industry" (13 October 2026, 15 minutes).
How often does Managing Made Simple publish?
Managing Made Simple publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 17 minutes across 100 episodes.
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The strongest fits for Managing Made Simple are Business & Management Consulting. Managing Made Simple has a business audience.
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Lia Garvin hosts Managing Made Simple, a business podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 20, 202616 min
When your second in command isn't stepping up, it's tempting to decide you hired the wrong person. But most new number twos think the job is to do everything themselves, so they say yes to all of it, get spread too...
- Oct 13, 202615 min
Being a leader people want to work for looks the same on every team, even when the challenge on yours feels like nobody else has ever dealt with it. A team at an insurance company and a team at a creative agency run...
- Oct 6, 202619 min
How to run performance reviews your team doesn't dread: a simple performance review conversation, a one-page self-assessment, and feedback with zero surprises. Performance reviews fill employees with stress because they...
- Sep 29, 202619 min
Creating a sense of urgency on your team starts with the ask. When employees don’t follow through, the handoff was usually missing something. You ask for the client email, the deck, or the vendor follow-up, they say “on...
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Episode #252
The tool that pours rocket fuel on employee motivation
Sep 22, 202614 minWhat to say instead of good job: "great work" and "nice job" are comments anybody could get, and specific employee recognition is a completely different tool. This episode breaks down acknowledgement, naming a quality...
Episode #251
The 3-step conversation that retains your best employees
Sep 15, 202621 minS1How to keep employees from quitting rarely comes down to money. Gallup found 42% of voluntary employee turnover is preventable, and most of it traces back to one conversation that never happened. In this episode, Lia...
Episode #250
The Sit-Down: the conversation that makes feedback and recognition easier
Sep 8, 202617 minS1The hard conversation with an employee you keep putting off has a structure. Giving feedback to an employee does not have to become a whole thing. In this episode, Lia breaks down the Sit-Down: one thirty-minute...
Episode #249
How to make 1:1s the most impactful meetings of your week
Sep 1, 202615 minOne on one meetings are the first thing leaders cancel and the one that costs the most. The fix isn't discipline, it's your one on one meeting agenda. In research run across Google, the top two behaviors employees named...
Episode #247
Revenue goals don't motivate your employees. Here's what does.
Aug 18, 202614 minS1Revenue goals don’t motivate employees. The fix is one metric per role that each person can control, a number their own daily work moves. In this episode, Lia Garvin explains why the big number on your slide lands as...
Episode #246
Why your team didn't follow the plan - and what to do
Aug 11, 202619 minS1You gave your team the full picture: the research, the roadmap, the direction. They said they were on board. Then nothing moved. In this episode, Lia Garvin breaks down the gap between strategy and implementation, why...
Episode #245
The person you just hired didn't bring the ROI? Here's what to do.
Aug 4, 202617 minYou took a real risk and made that hire. 90 days later, you're wondering if it was the wrong call. Before you assume it's the wrong person: nine times out of ten, it isn't. In this episode, Lia Garvin breaks down what...
Episode #244
Why your team can't be your friends (and where the line actually is)
Jul 28, 202618 minS1You thought she was a friend. Then the reorg came out and she found out with everyone else. What felt like a betrayal was a clarity problem. In this episode, Lia Garvin breaks down the difference between being friendly...
Episode #242
What to do when AI didn't get you the savings with your team you wanted
Jul 21, 202618 minS1The 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...
Managing Made Simple
Managing former friends? The simple 3-part conversation that resolves akwardness
Jul 14, 202615 minYou 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...
Managing Made Simple
241: What to do when you delegate and it comes back wrong
Jul 7, 202618 minS1You 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...
Managing Made Simple
240: Handing off work without lowering your standards
Jun 30, 202619 minYou 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...
Managing Made Simple
239: How to figure out what to delegate
Jun 23, 202617 minYou 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...
Managing Made Simple
238: How to stop micromanaging
Jun 16, 202616 minYou 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...
Managing Made Simple
237: Three signs you're accidentally a micromanager
Jun 9, 202618 minNobody 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...
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Grace Lee
neuroscience expert and executive coach, Stanford University School of Medicine
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Lia Garvin
team operations expert, TEDx speaker, bestselling author of The New Manager Playbook, workplace strategist and organizational effectiveness consultant
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Alison Curtis
presenter of Weekend Breakfast on Today FM, Today FM
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Brittany Driscoll
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Squeeze Massage
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