Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

Even Moses had a reputation as a micromanager who couldn’t give up control or delegate; his father-in-law Jethro telling him “This thing you are doing is not good – you will surely wear away you and those who are with you”. As God lives, for every letter that comes to me, it is read.”

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Delegate responsibility and accountability. Trust people to make good choices rather than micromanaging their performance. Establish key milestones and review progress along the way. Additional Reading: Attention Control Freaks: It’s Time to Delegate. Give people the freedom to choose the best way to attain them.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

AUGUST 27, 2019

Do you read every product review and spend hours looking for the cheapest price? Do you delegate responsibility and then micromanage people because you just can’t let things go? Afraid to delegate. If you spend too much time meticulously reviewing details, you’ll end up missing the big picture. Raise your kids.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It also helps to involve your employees in making decisions while giving them ownership of the tasks that you delegate. Give regular feedback – Don’t wait until a performance review to provide feedback. In turn, your employees will feel less worried about annual reviews of their performance. Support Your Employees.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 23, 2017

That’s why it’s important to know who you are as you lead if you want to understand how you go about the work of managing, delegating and leading. This gap originates in one of the most difficult struggles of leadership—the desire to control and micromanage. But as with most things, there are two sides to every personality trait.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As you review the list of reasons for employee attrition below, think about which ones a supervisor could directly impact, and which are outside of that manager’s ability to effectively influence. Unclear Expectations or Guidance Micromanagement has been identified previously as a reason employees leave organizations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2013

Attention to detail turns into micromanaging; confidence turns into arrogance, and being a good problem solver leads to an inability to delegate and develop others. It’s also important in order to be a successful leader. How aware are you of your strengths and weaknesses?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2023

But from the other side, this can feel more like micromanagement than support. We all know how important it is to delegate — both to help employees grow and to create a more collaborative, empowered, productive team. Third, identify low-stakes tasks that are less risky to delegate. First, shift from a doer to a leader mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

You've gotten feedback from your manager as well as word of rumblings within your team: You're seen as a micromanager who tends to get into the weeds — and stay there. Delegation sounds great on paper, but you're responsible for some major projects, and management expects flawless execution. Wait a minute, you think. Be specific.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

It is a very good idea to use visual communication if possible, depending on the task you are delegating. As an employer, formally reviewing their performance is a crucial part of managing remote workers. This does not suggest you should micromanage them. Set clear expectations – make their goals clear.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 7, 2018

Have managers address accountability during regular performance reviews and work with employees to continually improve accountability measures. As an employer, be accountable to providing regular management training that includes role playing scenarios in which successful delegation takes place. 6 – Reward accountability.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 21, 2017

That’s why it’s important to know who you are as you lead if you want to understand how you go about the work of managing, delegating and leading. This gap originates in one of the most difficult struggles of leadership—the desire to control and micromanage. But as with most things, there are two sides to every personality trait.

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Meeting on a quarterly basis to review the employee’s goals and their progress towards attaining those goals is a good performance management practice. Micromanage – Ugh…even saying the word conjures up stress and anxiety. Micromanaging bosses are like dirty diapers – full of crap and all over your a**. Knock it off!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

Part of the draw of self-managing organizations, like those we explore in our recent HBR article , is their promise to free us from the disease of micromanagement. Before we get to what works, let’s consider what micromanaging really is and what puts you at risk of doing it. How do you avoid falling into micromanagement?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

But there is: delegation. Delegation is a critical skill. Delegation benefits managers, direct reports, and organizations. A 2007 study on time management found that close to half of the 332 companies surveyed were concerned about their employees' delegation skills. Understand why you're not delegating. Here's how.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JULY 21, 2020

I hear you: “ I feel like a micromanager when I have to leave left-side delegation to provide right-side instruction!” Review your Situational Leadership ® : Building Leaders workbook, page 67: the page with eight positive match words and eight negative mismatch words for all four styles. The second is close behind: R2-S3.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

The answer to excessive micromanaging , we’re often told, is to learn to trust our reports, empowering them to make decisions for themselves. In practice, many bosses fail to delegate because they haven’t cultivated a set of underlying mindsets and practices. Yet that sounds far easier than it actually is.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Regardless of your preferred methodology for delegation, here are four strategies that I’ve found work for leaders at all levels. This not only clarifies the frequency of touchpoints they will find useful but also gives them autonomy in how the delegated work will move forward. Start with your reasons.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 22, 2021

Do you delegate responsibility and then micromanage because you can’t let go? You search the Internet, obtain advice from family and friends, read product reviews, and hear the news on TV and via social media. Hold yourself up to a high standard , not an impossible one. Do you search forever when making a minor purchase?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

One of the more vexing problems most managers face every day is how to get involved in the work of their people without doing the work themselves or micromanaging those doing it. You can resolve this challenge with the same approach that we described in our previous blog — the technique we call Prep-Do-Review.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

Micromanaging is a hard habit to break. If you’re the kind of boss who lasers in on details, prefers to be cc’ed on emails, and is rarely satisfied with your team’s work, then—there’s no kind way to say this— you’re a micromanager. How should you prioritize what matters?

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

If you micromanage, you’ll have employees that wait for instructions every step of the way and will not use their own resources. However, if you don’t give enough direction, and you’ll be wasting time and resources having to delegate and do work over. This is a fine line to walk as a leader.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

No matter how sophisticated your strategies to rid yourself of bad habits and create good ones, you’re less likely to succeed if you don’t track and review your progress frequently. Yi-Min’s colleagues thought he was a poor listener who micromanaged and didn’t respect others’ time. Micromanage less.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

” This mindset triggered knee-jerk reactions to overinvolve herself in delegated work and to communicate harshly by bottom-lining every email, one-on-one conversation, and team discussion. The result was that her team felt increasingly micromanaged and less engaged in their contributions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Beyond this, the best owners do not meddle: they delegate decision-making and let the board and management do the jobs they’ve been hired for. Have you clarified which decisions you will delegate to the board and to management and which ones you will stay involved with? So how is your ownership group doing? Setting distribution policy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

At virtually all the larger companies I knew, increased transparency and visibility empowered hard-charging executives to increasingly meddle and micromanage. So I grabbed a microphone and asked McDonald how P&G — a company famous for its buttoned-down, control-oriented culture — minimized the techno-temptation to micromanage.

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Miles Anthony Smith

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

According to a study done by the Harvard Business Review , a good leader is ethical, goal-oriented, communicates well, and is flexible , to name a few adjectives. This means delegating tasks to them, giving them bigger projects, and not micromanaging them. So what does a ideal leader look like?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. Restrictive to expansive: Too many managers micromanage. They don’t delegate or let direct reports make decisions, and they needlessly monitor other people’s work. pchyburrs/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

She had too many things on her plate because she didn’t know her team well enough to delegate work to them. They felt disconnected and micromanaged. Steven D’Souza and Diana Renner. After her first month as a manager, Sveta realized she was struggling. Sveta needed to connect with and empower her team more.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

You can’t micromanage your way to growth,” says Dr. Mary Jo Gorman, founder and CEO of Advanced ICU Care, which provides high-quality critical care to patients in intensive care units. A member of the 2011 North American class of Entrepreneurial Winning Women, Gorman says, “This is more than delegating.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Prioritizing, sequencing, delegating, and thinking from right to left should be part of our personal lives just as it is part of our business lives. Finally, once you delegate something, disengage from the temptation of inspecting the process or finding out if it is being done "your" way. Try planning the week in advance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

If the new manager doesn’t fully understand that, they might hold things up by: Doing tasks that should be delegated to team members. Taking back the tasks that they have delegated because they believe they can do them better. Micromanaging in a way that doesn’t allow team members to expand their own capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Every leader knows that they shouldn’t micromanage — even if some of us still do. But while we understand the downsides of micromanaging and taken action to avoid it, we still haven’t sufficiently embraced the upsides of not micromanaging. And is it not something that can be delegated or outsourced.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Managers may micromanage their people. The best way to figure out the right span of control is to first understand what sales managers do, what they should do, and how much time it takes to execute the responsibilities that can’t be delegated. This includes hiring, coaching, supervising, and conducting performance reviews.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

When overused and misapplied, these managerial strengths—expert knowledge, competitive spirit, compassion, and communication and delegation skills—led them straight into a spending trap. The Macromanagement Trap: We’ve all heard of micromanagers, who hover over their employees and control their every move.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Delegate, don’t command and control. Micromanagement is a symptom of an inability to delegate and of letting your desire to do overwhelm your need to lead. Micromanagement is a symptom of an inability to delegate and of letting your desire to do overwhelm your need to lead. Sell with more judo and less karate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

It influences whether they have close or distant relationships with the people who report to them, communicate directly or indirectly, micromanage or empower, encourage debates or shut them down. Sarah, the ambitious CEO who micromanaged her team, spoke with one of the few people she trusted, an old business school friend.

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