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Managing Made Simple

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 I know if I hired the wrong employee?
• How do I delegate effectively without things falling apart or micromanaging?
• How can managers tell if team members are overusing AI at work?
• What actually motivates employees today?
• How do I give feedback that actually moves the needle?
• How do I communicate vision, expectations, and strategy clearly?
• What are best practices for performance reviews, compensation, and growth conversations?


How do you lead a team through change, uncertainty, and rapid growth with confidence?


You’ll find the tools, frameworks, and leadership strategies you need to lead your team better, starting today.


Managing Made Simple:
✔ Corporate managers navigating continual change

✔ Founders & Business Owners scaling teams without burning people out
✔ Entrepreneurs balancing business strategy and people leadership
✔ Experienced leaders ready to modernize how they manage teams

New episodes drop every Tuesday, delivering leadership lessons, people management tools, and team-building strategies you can apply immediately.


Learn more at liagarvin.com

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256 episodes
since Feb. 22, 2023
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3 things great leaders do, no matter the team size or industry

3 things great leaders do, no matter the team size or industry

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 into the same dynamics, and the same three tools motivate and keep people on both: …
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How to give a performance review your team won't dread

How to give a performance review your team won't dread

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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 feel like one moment that could decide a career, and leaders dread them too. In…
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How to create a sense of urgency without micromanaging

How to create a sense of urgency without micromanaging

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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 it,” and a day later you’re doing it yourself and wondering if anyone cares. In…
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The tool that pours rocket fuel on employee motivation

The tool that pours rocket fuel on employee motivation

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What 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 you see in someone out loud, and why one sentence from a leader can change what a…
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The 3-step conversation that retains your best employees

The 3-step conversation that retains your best employees

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How 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 breaks down the retention conversation to have with your best person before they s…
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The Sit-Down: the conversation that makes feedback and recognition easier

The Sit-Down: the conversation that makes feedback and recognition easier

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The 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 conversation, three steps, that works for the missed deadline, the behavior nobody has …
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How to make 1:1s the most impactful meetings of your week

How to make 1:1s the most impactful meetings of your week

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One 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 when they didn't feel supported by their manager were both about this meeting: …
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How to be a great Player-Coach manager

How to be a great Player-Coach manager

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Player coach management breaks down the same way every time: the player work wins and the coaching slides. If you lead a team and carry your own deliverables, you already know how the week goes. The player work has deadlines and escalations. Coaching has none of that on a Tuesday, so the one on one…
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Revenue goals don’t motivate your employees. Here’s what does.

Revenue goals don’t motivate your employees. Here’s what does.

Revenue 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 “somebody is taking that home and it isn’t me,” and what to put in front of your t…
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The reason your team didn’t follow your plan - and what to do

The reason your team didn’t follow your plan - and what to do

You 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 it's the most expensive gap on any team, and what it actually looks like to bridg…
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