Managing Made Simple

As a first time manager, it's tempting to open with "I'm just here to help" or "I'll learn more from you than you'll learn from me." It comes from a good place, and it costs you your team's confidence and your own. In this episode, Lia shares the first few conversations to have with your new team instead, the ones that build trust quickly even if you've never managed before.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why playing yourself down backfires with a new team
• What your team wants from a new manager
• How to name the situation when a team has been through a lot of change
• How to learn each person's goals and make a plan with them
• How to share your leadership intention and invite your team to keep you honest
• The weekly question to ask yourself as a new manager

Resources mentioned:

• The New Manager Playbook: liagarvin.com or Amazon

Connect with me:

• Website: www.liagarvin.com
• Email: hello@liagarvin.com
• Free guide to making hard conversations easier: liagarvin.com/convo
• Instagram: @lia.garvin
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/liagarvin

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 becomes your problem. In this episode, Lia shares the wording shift that puts accountability back with your team, what to say instead, and why it makes the hard feedback conversations easier when someone still doesn't deliver.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why "I need" hands the accountability back to you
• Why "I" statements help in personal conflict but backfire at work
• What to say instead: the expectation, why it matters to them, the support, and one closing question
• How Lia caught herself doing this at Microsoft
• How to set a sales goal so your team owns it
• Why this makes feedback conversations clearer

Resources mentioned:

• Share your success story with Lia: hello@liagarvin.com

Connect with me:

• Website: www.liagarvin.com
• Email: hello@liagarvin.com
• Free guide to making hard conversations easier: liagarvin.com/convo
• Instagram: @lia.garvin
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/liagarvin

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 thin, and lose track of what matters most. In this episode, Lia shares how to tell if it's the wrong fit or the wrong expectations, and how to reset the expectation so your successor can start running things the way you hired them to.

In this episode you will learn:

• How to tell whether you have the wrong person or the wrong expectations
• The biggest symptom that your number two thinks they have to do everything
• Why building a leadership bench raises what your business is worth
• What a successor should and shouldn't copy from you
• How to have the expectation reset conversation with your number two
• How long to give it before you make the call

Resources mentioned:

• Work with Lia on your number two's role and coaching: liagarvin.com/contact

Connect with me:

• Website: www.liagarvin.com
• Email: hello@liagarvin.com
• Free guide to making hard conversations easier: liagarvin.com/convo
• Instagram: @lia.garvin
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/liagarvin

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: build trust, be clear, and delegate and motivate. In this episode, Lia walks through the framework from her keynote and how to use it with your team, whatever your team looks like.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why the same team dynamics show up in every industry, at every size
• How to set an intention as a leader so your team gets the same you on Monday and Thursday
• Why trust is the first thing to build, and what happens on a team without it
• The question to ask instead of "why aren't they doing it?"
• How accountability and The Sit-Down create clarity
• Why delegation is a trust issue, not a skill issue, and the three places that trust breaks down
• Coaching questions that start with what and how, never why

Resources mentioned:

• The New Manager Playbook: liagarvin.com or Amazon
• Bring this keynote to your team or event: hello@liagarvin.com

Connect with me:

• Website: www.liagarvin.com
• Email: hello@liagarvin.com
• Free guide to making hard conversations easier: liagarvin.com/convo
• Instagram: @lia.garvin
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/liagarvin

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 this episode, Lia breaks down how to structure the review so your team member leaves with a plan they own, whether your company runs a heavy review cycle or you've never run a review at all.

In this episode you will learn:

• The two things every performance review covers: looking back and looking ahead
• How long a performance review meeting should be
• How to set up a one-page employee self-assessment, and what to ask for in it
• What a team member's self-reflection tells you about their future on your team
• How to give specific feedback in a review that reinforces what you've already discussed
• Why your team member should own the follow-ups, and why skipping reviews costs you your best people

Resources mentioned:

• The New Manager Playbook: liagarvin.com or Amazon
• Owning Your Impact workshop: liagarvin.com/contact

Connect with me:

• Website: www.liagarvin.com
• Email: hello@liagarvin.com
• Free guide to making hard conversations easier: liagarvin.com/convo
• Instagram: @lia.garvin
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/liagarvin

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 this episode, Lia breaks down the three pieces of a handoff that turn “on it” into ownership: a deadline, the reason behind it, and a two-minute check that it’s doable.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why “on it” is an incomplete handoff, and how to fix it inside the ask
• How to put a deadline on a request without it feeling like micromanaging
• How to share context so the deadline matters to your team member, even when the reason is your own workload
• The questions that get your employee to own the urgency and flag risks early
• How to tell a delegation problem from a performance problem

Resources mentioned:

• Work with Lia on mapping how work gets done on your team: liagarvin.com/contact
• Tell Lia how the three steps went with your team: hello@liagarvin.com

Connect with Lia:

• Website: www.liagarvin.com
• Email: hello@liagarvin.com
• Instagram: @lia.garvin
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/liagarvin

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 person believes they're capable of. Lia shares the sentence a manager said to her at a conference that changed the trajectory of her career, and the two-step method for doing it with your own team this week.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why "I think you're good at this" undoes the compliment, and the two words to use instead
• The two-step method for recognizing your team members: pay attention first, then name it out loud
• Where to find hard evidence of what your people are great at when you're not sitting next to them all day
• What to say when someone pushes back and tells you no, they're not good at that
• The three rules for naming a strength in an employee: it has to relate, it has to make sense, and it has to be true
• Why the people who are best at something are usually the last to know it's rare

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

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 start looking, and tells two stories from her own career where 30 minutes would have kept her in a job she loved.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why the person about to quit almost never tells their manager first, and what they do instead
• What made a promotion conversation at Google land as nothing, and the version that would have kept her on the team
• What to say when the answer is no and you can't change it, so the no doesn't end the relationship
• The 3 steps of The Sit-Down applied to employee retention, including the words to open with
• Why waiting for your team to raise a concern first never works, even for approachable leaders
• The signals a good employee sends for months before the resignation lands

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

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 named out loud, the change your team did not ask for, and the person doing great work who has not heard about it in six months.

In this episode you will learn:

• The three steps of the Sit-Down, and why leaders skip the first one
• Why "hey, can we talk" makes people brace for bad news, and what to say instead
• The exact language for recognizing a high performer so it lands as a career plan, not a compliment
• What to say to the employee who keeps saying "I'm on it" and never finishes the work
• How to follow up in writing so you have documentation without making it feel like a case file
• How the same three steps work when you are announcing a re-org or a change nobody asked for

Resources mentioned:

• Free guide, the Sit-Down across five sticky team situations: liagarvin.com/convo

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

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: canceling it, and showing up late. Lia breaks down why this is the most impactful meeting of your week, why yours feels pointless right now, and the four-part agenda that fixes it in fifteen minutes.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why canceling and rescheduling one on ones lands harder on your team than you think
• What you only ever find out in a one on one, and never at the coffee cart or on a client call
• How your next delegation decision surfaces in this meeting
• The three reasons one on ones get canceled, and the fix for each one
• The four-part agenda: highlights, lowlights, blockers, and feedback
• What to ask when you get to the end and there's time left over

Resources mentioned:

• The New Manager Playbook, which has the one on one agenda template: liagarvin.com/newmanagerplaybook

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

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 ones come off the calendar first, starting with the people who seem fine. In this episode, Lia breaks down what that costs you and your team, and the three moves that get you back into the coach half of the job this week.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why the player half of the job always wins when you're spread thin
• The high performers most at risk while you're heads down on your own deliverables
• How to make one on ones survivable at 15 to 30 minutes every other week
• Why status updates don't belong in your one on one, and where to put them instead
• The one question to ask about every piece of work that lands on your plate
• What it means when the answer to that question is no, every single time

Resources mentioned:

• Weekly team check-in tool: liagarvin.com/snippets
• Advisory and manager training: liagarvin.com/contact

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

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 team instead.

Your team can name the company goal. They can name their task list. Nothing connects the two, so they nod in the meeting and nothing changes on Tuesday. Lia walks through how to name an individual metric for every role, why explaining the cost of running your business backfires, and how to build the raises and bonuses around the numbers people actually control.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why a company revenue goal demotivates the people you need most
• The one sentence every person on your team should be able to finish out loud
• What the metric looks like for a front desk role, an injector, a creative team, and a project manager
• Why walking your team through the P&L makes the disconnect worse
• What changes about a month in, when people start solving for their own number
• How to structure bonuses, commissions, and raises around a metric each person controls

Resources mentioned:

• Work with Lia (Ops Playbook for business owners, advisory sessions for corporate managers): liagarvin.com/contact

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

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 bridge it.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why giving your team a clear strategy isn't enough to get anyone to follow it
• The difference between knowing what to do and actually internalizing, owning, and doing it
• What the behaviors on the surface, the quiet team member, the recurring detail miss, the title question every week, are often actually telling you
• Why AI has made the strategy side faster and the implementation gap wider
• What implementation looks like in practice: the conversation, the system, the communication

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

You 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 the hiring hangover actually is, why it happens across businesses of every size, and the specific shift that turns extra pairs of hands into owners who actually drive ROI.

In this episode you will learn:

• What the hiring hangover is and why it shows up at the 90-day mark
• The difference between hiring an extra pair of hands and hiring an owner
• Why being in the same meetings as your team member is costing you more than you think
• What handing off a project end to end actually looks like in practice
• How to shift your current team into owner mode even if you didn't start there

Resources mentioned:

• The Ops Playbook: liagarvin.com/contact

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

You 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 with your team and being their friend, what self-management really means before any other management tool can work, and the one thing to say upfront that changes the entire dynamic.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why the betrayal your team feels when hard news hits is almost never about what you did, and what it actually is
• The kinds of things you will always know as a leader that your team cannot know yet, and why that is the job
• Where the friendship line quietly blurs: lending money, bending policies, venting, inviting one person and not all
• What equitable management looks like and why it protects everyone, including you
• The one sentence to say when you hire someone that sets the dynamic from day one

Resources mentioned:

• Free conversation guide (5 scripts for your stickiest leadership conversations): liagarvin.com/convo
• Reach out: liagarvin.com/contact

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

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. Lia breaks down how to figure out where AI actually fits on your team — without an arms race, a Chief AI Officer, or a plan to replace the people who make your business run.

In this episode you'll learn:

- Why AI isn't the wholesale cost savings you were promised — and why that's actually good news
- How to tell whether your business really needs a "Chief AI Officer" (most don't)
- The tool mindset that separates teams who benefit from AI from teams who just spin their wheels
- Where AI genuinely claws back hours — and where a team conversation solves it faster
- Why the hard part was never the tech, and the people conversations to have first
- How to start with foundations so AI augments your team instead of replacing it

Resources mentioned:
- Grab Lia's free guide with 5 scripts to make any hard conversation easier: liagarvin.com/convo
- Send Lia the AI challenge you're wrestling with (she'll cover them on the show): hello@liagarvin.com
- Snippets — stay in the know of what your team is working on without having to micromanage: liagarvin.com/snippets

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

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 worst management experience -- managing someone who was her best friend at work -- and the 30-minute conversation she wishes she'd had from day one.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why managing someone you already know tends to go wrong faster than managing a stranger
• The assumption that skips the most important conversation -- and how to have it even when you're already in the mess
• The Sit Down: a 30-minute, three-step framework for turning around even the most difficult working relationship
• What to say first (most leaders get this backwards)
• How the same conversation keeps your best people before they send you a resignation email

Chapters

• 00:00 Navigating Friendships in Management
• 05:45 Taking Responsibility in Leadership
• 11:51 Proactive Conversations for Team Retention

Resources mentioned:

• Free guide -- 5 Conversations We're Avoiding (with word-for-word scripts): liagarvin.com/convo
• DM "convo" on Instagram to receive the guide

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

Host Lia Garvin breaks down exactly what to do in the first five minutes after delegated work comes back wrong. Learn why taking work back stalls team growth, a practical 5‑minute feedback script to correct the task without micromanaging, and clear steps to restore accountability and prevent repeat mistakes — phrasing you can use immediately.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why taking work back without feedback keeps your team stuck -- and you stuck in the weeds
• The question to ask yourself before you give corrective feedback
• What it sounds like to name the gap specifically without making it personal
• How to turn a bad first delivery into a real learning moment
• Why the goal isn't "done my way" -- and how that reframe changes everything

Resources mentioned:

• Free guide - exact scripts for how to have 5 tricky conversations with your team: https://liagarvin.com/convo
• DM "convo" on Instagram to receive the guide

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

Part 2 of a 3-part delegation series. You handed something off, it came back wrong, and you took it back — the problem wasn’t your team. Lia breaks down the three non‑negotiables every leader must set before delegating: clear outcomes, decision boundaries, and verification rhythms. Practical handoff language, a quick checklist, and scripts to delegate effectively without lowering standards.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why delegation fails before the handoff even starts -- and the specific step most leaders skip
• The three non-negotiable categories: presentation, timing, and what success looks like
• Why establishing standards upfront is the opposite of micromanaging
• How to structure check-ins that keep you in the loop without hovering
• What "done" really means -- and how to align your definition with your team member's
• How to stop the cycle of people bringing things back halfway through instead of finishing

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lia.Garvin

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© 2026 Lia Garvin / Managing Made Simple

Use a simple 10-minute monthly exercise to discover exactly what to delegate. Lia Garvin shows how to audit your calendar and task list to identify repetitive, low-impact, or handoff-ready work — without handing off your whole job or dumping busywork on your team. Learn a step-by-step method to spot delegation candidates, prioritize what to offload, and create clear handoffs managers trust. Ideal for founders, people managers, and business owners wanting faster delegation outcomes.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why delegating is not all or nothing, and the myth that keeps you stuck
• The calendar pass that surfaces meetings you can hand off, and the ones you shouldn't
• How to choose 3 to 5 monthly tasks a team member can take on
• How to hand off a piece of a task instead of the whole thin
• Why doing it yourself costs you more time than it saves

Resources mentioned:

• The New Manager Playbook by Lia Garvin

Download my FREE guide to making hard conversations with your team easier at https://liagarvin.com/convo

Looking for support for yourself of your team? I've got you covered.
Explore manager training, leaders keynotes & offsites, and 1:1 advisory, or my 90-Day-COO program for business owners who want simple systems that actually work.

I transform teams from cost centers to profit centers with practical tools and research-backed strategies that make managing EASIER.

Get all the details at: www.liagarvin.com
Contact: https://www.liagarvin.com/contact/
Email: hello@liagarvin.com

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia.garvin
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