Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2024

Hopefully, you've mastered or are achieving good progress with your New Year's resolution(s) for 2024. If you need another resolution to tackle this year or haven't yet selected one, now is a good time to review this list below.

Mentor 90

Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 90

Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 2, 2017

Include us in goal setting. You work hard to set our department’s annual goals and achieve them. We want you to include us in planning our department’s goals. Share what you have in mind in terms of goals for our department, and then have the humility to ask us what’s right, what’s wrong and what’s missing from your thinking.

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Committee Micromanagement Short-term Goal 225

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2024.

Mentor 102

Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 102

Leading with Trust

JANUARY 24, 2021

Micromanaging. Lack of trust is at the heart of micromanagement. Micromanagement kills the motivation of your team members, reduces their creativity, and stifles innovation. Micromanagement cheats your team out of embracing their own knowledge and power that leads to them performing their best.

Micromanagement 120

Micromanagement Management Learning-by-Doing Sports 120

Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Therefore, ensure you are clear and concise when communicating deadlines, objectives, and goals. Micromanaging your employees will only lead to frustration and resentment. As a manager, your employees need to know what is expected of them in order to meet and exceed your expectations. Be A Role Model.

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Tips Management Delegation Micromanagement 250

The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 27, 2022

Providing direction is great, except when it’s perceived as micromanagement. The goal is for leaders to get people to the point where they’re able, willing, and confident to perform and, in so doing, enable their mastery and enhance their engagement. “Everything in leadership depends upon who you’re dealing with and what the task is.

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Situational Leadership Training Strategy Leadership 40

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2023

Dysfunctional Workplace Dynamics Workplace bullying, micromanagement, and a lack of social support can contribute to burnout. Unrealistic Expectations When employees are expected to meet unrealistic deadlines or achieve unrealistic goals, they may become stressed and burned out.

How To 90

How To Self-aware Stress Micromanagement 90

HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

People management encompasses a range of responsibilities, from recruiting and onboarding to training and development, performance management, employee engagement, and more. By helping employees identify their strengths and areas for growth, leaders can provide targeted training and development opportunities.

Skills 98

Skills Management Emotional Intelligence Active Listening 98

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The level of micromanagement by my boss made my work difficult for me, and I had to end it because it was clear he had no trust in his employees. Increased Creativity: No one likes to be micromanaged and when they are, they can only do a little in their jobs with little to no creativity and innovation.

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Micromanagement Management Creativity Delegation 98

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

We really do need to do a better job of training our people.” The new sales training manual that you requested four months ago,” responded the director. “The The new sales training manual that you requested four months ago,” responded the director. No one likes a micromanager. Here is what?” the VP asked.

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Tips Micromanagement Guidelines Project 150

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 19, 2022

To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2023.

Mentor 86

Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 86

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 13, 2023

With the ability to achieve their goals and improve company performance, these individuals are ready to go the extra mile beyond their job descriptions — but they still need support. Offer autonomy: Giving employees the freedom to determine their own schedule enables you to avoid micromanagement and motivate high performers.

Management 52

Management How To Micromanagement Situational Leadership 52

HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

Empathy is the key–understand their unique challenges and be flexible, focusing on outputs rather than micromanaging their every move. Set clear goals and objectives, leaving no room for ambiguity. The Accountability Aria : Promoting accountability is like conducting a symphony of individual responsibilities.

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Team Bond How To Management 52

Lead from Within

JANUARY 16, 2020

Open your mind and make hearing their point of view your only goal, then let them know they were heard by repeating and summarizing what was said. Set up lunch-and-learn sessions, provide professional memberships and development opportunities, and pair people up for cross-training in a new area they’d like to learn more about.

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Team Micromanagement Bottom-up Report 218

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 13, 2020

To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2021.

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Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 123

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Make Training a Priority. By training your staff, you are also investing in their business development. Affordable Training Methods and Practices. Ask your employees to train new employees. You can also cross-train employees so they can cover sick or vacation leave or can be used on staggered shifts.

Management 121

Management How To Incentives Outsourcing 121

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

The goal of any empowerment practice is to give your employees the power to make high-impact decisions in the organization. For instance, you can start by providing input on their goals and objectives. Besides, train your employees such that they can do their work without requiring any form of micromanagement.

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Tips Morale Micromanagement Objective 66

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Micromanaging A hands-on, directive style of leadership is a short-term approach that aligns with followers who don’t know what to do and are afraid of making a mistake that might reflect poorly on themselves or their team. Followers feel as if there is nothing they can do to earn the trust and receive the empowerment they deserve.

Attrition 52

Attrition Micromanagement Short-term Situational Leadership 52

Leading with Trust

JULY 18, 2021

You can do it through micromanaging and strictly enforcing everyone’s work schedules—or you can spend your time empowering your people, investing in them, trusting them, and helping them achieve their goals, regardless of whether they’re sitting in a nearby office or joining a Zoom call from home.

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Blanchard Webinar Strategy Micromanagement 137

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 28, 2012

You appointed him, you watched his chariot and baggage train disappear over the hill in a cloud of dust and that was that. There was, therefore, no question of appointing a man who was not fully trained, or not quite up to the job: you knew that everything depended on his being the best man for the job before he set off.

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Management MBO Learning-by-Doing Micromanagement 243

Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A happy team has a leader who is engaged and supportive—and leaders with that style will go much further than either micromanagers or aloof directors. Make sure your team atmosphere is one where new ideas are welcomed, healthy debate is encouraged and everyone works toward the same goals of trust, respect and success.

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Motivation Team Micromanagement Consensus 167

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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. It helps you build relationships, resolve conflicts, share information and achieve goals. Some of these can impact your business goals.

Development 52

Development Self-aware Power Leadership 52

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 16, 2013

The measurements must be co-established by employee and manager in reference to the goal set. The employee has the final say over how to complete their own work, with the knowledge of the manager’s goals in context. She arranged a meeting with her manager to determine her goals and how she would be evaluated throughout the year.

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Objective Case Study Team Metrics 121

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 15, 2021

Congratulations if you selected some of these earlier and are making progress on them. Feel free to select some additional ones now to complete throughout the rest of the year.

Mentor 65

Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 65

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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Micromanagement Follow-up Blanchard Policies 48

Terry Starbucker

JULY 26, 2015

I always thought it was strange how great leadership was always thought to be vitally important to a businesses success, but yet it was quite often the least discussed thing in the meeting rooms, and the budget money allocated to “leadership training” was always limited (or the first thing to get cut back). Why is this the case?

Leadership 150

Leadership Micromanagement Policies Learning-by-Doing 150

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 20, 2017

Make sure that your subordinates and colleagues perceive your own goal as a leader to be the achievement of positive team results, not personal gain. This leadership dynamic is based in micromanagement, rooted in a fear of failure. They are much more interested in highlighting their own achievements, accolades, status and rank.

Leadership 186

Leadership Micromanagement Self-aware Leadership Styles 186

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 27, 2020

To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2021.

Management 65

Management Mentor Micromanagement Consensus 65

HR Digest

JUNE 13, 2022

The first involves those who are in a situation at work where they feel like they are being treated unfairly, or that they are being micromanaged , or that their boss is being unreasonable. Determine Your Goal. What are your goals? There are two different types of difficult conversations at work that many people face.

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Process How To Micromanagement Goal 93

The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

In our work with culture development, we clearly see a variation of leadership modelling; people in organizations act like their leader — despite all attempts to train them otherwise. Follow Through and Follow Up Many leadership teams are good at setting direction, strategies, and new goals.

Development 98

Development Team Short-term Teamwork 98

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 19, 2021

To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2022.

Mentor 65

Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 22, 2019

To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2020.

Mentor 66

Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 66

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Informal training of teams and groups. Application and development outside the classroom and structured training time. Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process. People and teams test the change on their own and find what works.

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Resistance Franchising Power Management 141

ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 7, 2018

Your culture may be the culprit if your organization is not meeting goals and growing. 5 – Train managers to model accountability and to manage fairly to that outcome. As an employer, be accountable to providing regular management training that includes role playing scenarios in which successful delegation takes place.

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Core Competence Bottom-up Micromanagement Absenteeism 52

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 10, 2021

Congratulations if you selected some of these earlier and are making progress on them. Feel free to select some additional ones now to complete throughout the rest of the year.

Mentor 65

Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 65

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2016

This will free you up to spend more time on your under-performers, and other important management responsibilities, like your reading your email micromanaging the rest of your employees. Give them impossible and unrealistic goals. We call these “stretch” assignments, or “development challenges”. And a lot of them too.

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Follow-up Micromanagement Mentor Workshop 120

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 31, 2012

By the way – asking yourself the 4 questions below will also keep you from running to your manager and then feeling like he is micromanaging everything. If you were one step closer to the goal, how would you know? Looking for training and development on coaching for organizational excellence. What is your next step?

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Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing Training Process 110