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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Employee pass interference: Otherwise known as micromanagement, this penalty is for getting in the way of an employee or team of employees that know how to do the job better than the manager. Here’s 10 penalties that I’d look for if I were a Management Referee: 1.

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

Micromanagement will polarbearize an employee who may have started out with penguin enthusiasm. They drag their rear ends when they are told what to do – even when they are “incented” – and it becomes an nothing more than an obligation. Once you get them a sense of control and ownership, then get out of the way!

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JULY 1, 2014

When they do, they do it at the expense of the unique and critical work that they should be doing as a manager, undermine their employee’s work, and end up micromanaging. While it’s good to do this once in a while, managers should not be doing the work of 1-2 levels below them on a regular basis. First in, last out.”

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Everyone hates to be micromanaged! They reward them for doing their jobs their way (sometimes unknowingly), and punish them for coloring outside the lines and doing it in any way that’s different than their own. It’s the number one complaint I hear about bosses. It just sucks the life out of employees.

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MARCH 6, 2014

A BossHole thinks that all employees need to be micromanaged for them to be useful. A BossHole ignores poor performance until it festers and becomes such a big deal that he has to belittle and demean someone in front of their peers. A good boss knows that good people occasionally do bad things and need to be given a break.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

micromanaged their old responsibilities. All of these coaches, besides being fired as head coaches, had one thing in common – they were outstanding Offensive or Defensive Coordinators. Many of them tried to combine their old jobs with their new jobs. Some even hired new Coordinators and still.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Do leaders give responsibility but then micromanage every move by taking the wheel out of employees’ hands if they aren’t driving quite right? And third (just to take the metaphor a little further), who gets access to the keys of the change vehicle?

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JULY 25, 2019

They appear in many well-known forms: Micromanagement, personalizing, and conflict avoidance top the list. Defenses give people short term comfort but prevent achieving better things. The biggest resistance, however, might come from you and stand in the way of your dreams. Everyone has defenses.

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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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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

That may seem overwhelming since leaders often struggle with the balance between micromanaging the details and supporting and empowering their managers towards improved performance. But it is achievable, and it starts with great leadership.

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MAY 28, 2013

Then again, a lot of managers think they are already coaching when what they are really doing is a lot of teaching, advising and telling — or, worst case, micromanaging (think Pointy Haired Boss from “Dilbert” ). They use the phrase “coaching” to describe just about any conversation they have with an employee. Both are valid positions.

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AUGUST 3, 2015

The absence of trust leads to micromanagement, fear, risk-aversion, backstabbing, destructive rumors, a lack of innovation, mistakes, and a lack of engagement. No, the most important three little words are: “I trust you”. Trust is the foundation that a positive manager-employee relationship is built on. What does trust look like?

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JANUARY 13, 2014

However, unless you want to be micromanaged or seen as incapable of managing your own time and priorities, don’t show up with a list of projects and ask your boss to rank them. Don’t ask your boss to prioritize your work. If you’re swamped and feeling overwhelmed, it’s OK to let your boss know that (again, but not on a regular basis).

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MAY 28, 2015

Employees may feel left out, micromanaged, unsafe, hyper-criticized, or helpless. It creates an environment where people fear to make mistakes and take risks. It is stifling – killing innovation before people are afraid to speak up.

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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. Great employees are like self-licking ice cream cones, they need little time or support from their managers. Give them impossible and unrealistic goals.

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APRIL 16, 2012

In many organizations and occupations, “management by walking around” and micromanagement have fell by the wayside, either by design or out of necessity. However, there are jobs that are so far down the deep end of the empowerment continuum that it feels like you’re on your own with little or no supervision.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

micromanaging. Of the more innocent you have…. Demanding things at short notice. Telling people what to do and how to do it. Cancelling meetings at short notice. Closely monitoring work ? Asking people to do things without giving them a reason why. Do you know any leaders who do these things? Of course you do.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Many employees report that they feel their managers micromanage them, pick on them unfairly, or get all over their case for things that really don’t matter. Confronting an employee performance problem is one of the most difficult (and also the most avoided) discussions a manager can have with an employee.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Great employees don’t need to be babysat, monitored, checked on, micromanaged, and shouldn’t need to fill out daily and weekly activity reports. Once the why and the what are clear, employees should be allowed to exercise judgment and creativity in how things are done. Hire great employees. Then train them and empower them do their jobs.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

She feels unsafe and starts to micromanage Carlos, who then rebels, feels unappreciated, and grinds to a halt. Then Carlos slows down—fast results to him mean poor quality and possible problems in client care, which he also owns. So as Carlos gets more cautious, Tania gets more impatient and massively triggered.

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JULY 1, 2012

Here's Bernd Geropp , from More Leadership, Less Management, with Micromanagers and the e -mail trap. Art Petty , from his Management Excellence blog, presents Just One Thing: Always Add Clarity to Challenge. Many entrepreneurs and senior managers tend to work around the clock, but take too little time for the real leadership tasks.".

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FEBRUARY 19, 2008

5- Lead, Don’t Micromanage A key problem many leaders fall into is when they micromanage everything. It’s important for leaders to hold an optimistic view of the world, so that they can stir the aspiration of people who will then follow with enthusiasm to achieve great accomplishments.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Commit to “letting go” (and be less of a micromanager): · - Take the 20 question micromanager test · - Watch Dan Pink’s Ted Talk “The Puzzle of Motivation ” · - Meet with each of my direct reports and ask (questions from Marshall Goldsmith ): 1.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Beware of micromanaging. Without creating Zoom overload, bring all team members together -- as much as possible -- to check in on a personal level FIRST, not a productive level. Avoid email diarrhea. Email can stand for escalation and error. Have people talk in real time with each other with the leader as a facilitator.

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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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DECEMBER 9, 2013

I’ve seen this happen a lot – maybe it’s some kind of “nesting” urge – exiting leaders all of a sudden micromanaging every aspect of their team’s work. On the other hand, don’t use your last few weeks to get overly involved in every single thing your team is working on. It''s about gradually letting go, not pulling in the reins.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

No one likes to be micromanaged. Micromanagers focus explicitly on the how, which often results in short-term success at the expense of the long-term strategy, overall scalability, and employee satisfaction. Poor leaders provide specificity around how to complete a task but fail to share the big picture, the why, behind the request.

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