Rich Gee Group

JUNE 13, 2014

Persuasion, Motivation, & Coaching. Have you revisited your motivational and coaching behaviors? Are you a micromanager? It’s taking the time and energy to understand your current behaviors and how they are working. How you can show them top-notch communication styles that they in turn can show their teams?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 31, 2020

The simpler you can keep things, the more you’ll be able to focus your limited time, energy, and resources on the most essential tasks at any given moment. Be willing to absorb costs in exchange for enhanced efficiency, reduced micromanaging, and more available time and awareness. In other words, it’s worth paying for simplicity.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Frances Hesselbein once said, “the Leader’s job, after all, is not to provide energy but to release it from others”. What does it actually take for people to unlock hidden reservoirs of energy from others and have them use it willingly in the accomplishment of great work? I’ll spare you the details). But then I wondered.

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Energy Micromanagement Motivation Leadership Development 62

Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Anyone with the motivation to lead can develop core leadership qualities. In a great business leadership training program , a motivational speaker will share valuable advice like these 5 key tips on developing the qualities of a great leader. Micromanaging your staff wastes company resources and frustrates employees.

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2023

When employees feel like they have no say in their work, they may become disengaged and less motivated. Poor Work-Life Balance When work takes up too much time and energy, employees can become burned out. Dysfunctional Workplace Dynamics Workplace bullying, micromanagement, and a lack of social support can contribute to burnout.

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How To Self-aware Stress Micromanagement 90

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 20, 2017

THE ZOMBIES This approach to leadership is thoughtless, passionless, and lacking in energy. They talk a lot about ‘motivation’ without ever doing anything to motivate. A leader needs to keep the energy of a team focused and driven. This leadership dynamic is based in micromanagement, rooted in a fear of failure.

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Leadership Micromanagement Self-aware Leadership Styles 186

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 3, 2020

They exhibit symptoms such as micromanagement, taking credit for others’ work, the inability to see the big picture, or even a failure to do succession planning. Just getting started with an idea or concerned about your motivation for a project or investment? .” Something that for me to get, I need to take away from you.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2017

If you know where you are coming from and where others are coming from you can begin to see what might motivate someone to join your change effort. We have our own motivations and our preferred ways of dealing with change. The chart below helps you to see how your motivation relates to the motivation of others.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This month we are featuring Instigator Eileen McDargh , CEO and Chief Energy Officer of The Resiliency Group and a motivational speaker who calls herself a hope merchant and truth teller. Micromanage. ” The source of this saying is uncertain, but it motivates and inspires nonetheless. Watch their every move.

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Health Care PR Micromanagement Audience 150

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

This is a cultural intervention in which leaders seek out a few employees who are already known to be master motivators, adept at inspiring strategic awareness among their colleagues. These master motivators are invited to recommend specific measures that enable better ways of working.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 10, 2018

They may micromanage, bully employees, avoid conflict, duck decisions, steal credit, shift blame, hoard information, fail to listen, set a poor example, goof off, or fail to invest in developing their team. Dysfunction saps even the best employees—it distracts them from their work, keeps them on edge, and drains their energy.

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Micromanagement Career Learning-by-Doing Human Needs 167

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Perceived lack of control – A while ago Dan Pink illustrated the importance of autonomy in our motivation and engagement at work, so it’s perhaps no surprise that feeling like we lack control over our lives is also a major contributing factor towards burnout.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

How you think, your values, and what motivates you contribute to this kind of thinking. Essentially, senior leaders inspire, motivate and support others to work together toward a common goal and be the best version of themselves in their work or personal lives. Leadership takes work, dedication, and patience.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 2, 2014

They just didn’t seem motivated to try. It’s not to late to contribute your thoughts to the Insiders Guide to Micromanagement. Communication Energy & Engagement Everything Else big picture thinking communication employee engagement strategy team communication vision' Hope you will join the fun.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

Don’t assume that everyone needs the same kind of communication or motivation. Leadership is about investing your time and energy in getting to know those you lead and giving them what they need most. Not knowing how to motivate others. ” Wrong! if you cannot delegate, you are not leading effectively.

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Delegation Learning-by-Doing Reputation Motivation 164

The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Ebbs and flows in work-related motivation is both normal and predictable. Elusive Energy–Work-related stamina is declining. They are intrinsically motivated by consistently delivering at or above standard with everything that has been placed on their work-related plate. What Is Workplace Burnout?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Like smart investment managers, smart people managers figure out how to shift their investment of time and energy from some parts of their portfolio so they can invest more in other parts where there is more potential for improvement. Stop Micromanaging your Exemplars – You know who the Exemplars on your team are.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Persuasion, Motivation, & Coaching What techniques do you use to get your teams to efficiently execute company strategy? Have you revisited your motivational and coaching behaviors? Are you a micromanager? It’s taking the time and energy to understand your current behaviors and how they are working.

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CEO Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

To harness it requires thought and energy that most people simply do not have since the fear itself saps energy and creativity. I do not think all CEOs are bad or have bad motives though. Territorialism - Hoarding and micromanaging. I am glad it has been peaceful so far. People are afraid.

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Bureaucracy Micromanagement Maturity CEO 153

You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 19, 2010

What does it actually take for people to unlock hidden reservoirs of energy from others and have them use it willingly in the accomplishment of great work? As well, I seem to have more energy when I feel that the work I do is important enough for you to pitch in from time to time. But then I wondered. You add a good one.

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Energy Micromanagement Blog McCarthy 43

Lead from Within

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The most effective leaders work to create an environment that will stimulate, motivate and develop people—who in turn will bring their best to work. They may believe that calm cultures mean a lack of activity or purpose—that stress and chaos lead to greater drive and energy. Resist micromanagement.

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Micromanagement How To Stress Bottom-up 60

Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Lose your temper – Some leaders think by yelling or cursing at employees they are motivating them. If you can’t be fully engaged and devote the time and energy needed to meet with your team, then be honest with them and work to arrange your schedule so that you can give them 100% of your focus. You might be a Frankenboss if you….

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Looking to the future is a great motivator. You don’t have the energy for listening to them try to convince you, so you say yes. Top leaders sometimes think they need to micromanage because their managers are in the weeds, but there’s a reason—the culture. Ask yourself this: Am I walking on eggshells to avoid the bully?

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is a fundamental human motivation and is incredibly powerful. If they feel too micromanaged, or that they don’t have enough autonomy then it can have a negative effect on efficiency and effectiveness. On a daily basis they could see, feel and even smell the bigger picture of which they were contributing to. We’re saying do!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It’ll also give you that extra motivation, and help when the going gets tough, as it surely will at some stage. As such, it’s important that you take time to ensure that your energy levels and capabilities are at the highest level that they can be. An Inch of Courage.

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How To Outsourcing Entrepreneur Mentor 94

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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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 31, 2016

They have energy and enthusiasm. Generally, the younger management tends to be less focused on micromanagement, and more focused on team building.” “The Energy, enthusiasm, energy, enthusiasm, energy, enthusiasm—to the 10th power.” Do people seem motivated and engaged in their job or the opposite?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Completely distributed teams working from home mean that you couldn’t micromanage even if you wanted to. Every act of communication should be an act towards persuading, educating, informing, inspiring, or motivating someone else to move in a desired direction. Today, leaders need to become skilled facilitators.

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Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 106

QAspire

DECEMBER 8, 2009

With wrong examples around, people are bound to underperform, get de-motivated and hence, disengaged. Your thinking, approach, method, statements and actions are your tools to ensure that they derive the “right” meaning that helps them become more engaged with their work, be more productive and stay motivated. Works wonders.

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Cost Leadership Project Blog 107

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame. For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

In an ideal world, our work lives would be completely fulfilling, full of meaning, and intrinsically motivating. You might feel micromanaged or that company leaders don’t know or care about your learning and growth. But what if they’re not? More people fit this profile than you’d think.

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Career Micromanagement Organizational Behavior Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

This is hardly an effective way to motivate people and help them grow, and it can result in wasted time, money, and energy. ” When done right, coaching can also help with employee engagement; it is often more motivating to bring your expertise to a situation than to be told what to do.

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Management Participative Training Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

On the surface this advice may sound like common sense; it’s what motivational leaders should do. You can’t motivate somebody to care when you can’t express the reasons why it matters to you, so this essential step sets the table for effective partnering.

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Delegation Short-term How To Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Managers typically waste massive amounts of money, time, energy, and resources in order to fix these issues. They become vulnerable to what we call spending traps —where spending, whether it’s through money or time, energy, and other resources, comes to substitute for the real work of leading, managing, and executing.

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Price Micromanagement Delegation Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In the survey, employees called out the kind of management offenses that point to a striking lack of emotional intelligence among business leaders, including micromanaging, bullying, narcissism, indecisiveness, and more. Connection is a mindset and an energy exchange between people who are paying attention to one another.

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Emotional Intelligence Energy Micromanagement Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Yes, there are Type A individuals who are among the most admirable people I’ve had the privilege to know: brilliant, boundless energy — keen judges of character who achieved off-the-charts performance. ” When I moved backward she moved forward, with renewed energy and productivity.

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Stress Meyer Micromanagement Long-term 8

LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

I had the energy and motivation, you know what it’s like to commit mentally and emotionally. David: Yeah, I must say I’m actually jealous of how you’re able to muster the energy to do all these sorts of things. They’re left alone, they don’t like to be micromanaged.

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