Creativity, Influence, Management and Micromanagement

Integrity is by far the most important asset of a leader.

Brigette Hyacinth

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Treating others poorly – not showing respect or empathy, micromanaging employees, not trusting them to do their job. Your ability to influence is not just based on skill or intelligence; it’s based on trust and requires integrity, which is the foundation of real and lasting influence.

Loyalty

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Leaders don’t create more followers. They create more leaders.

Brigette Hyacinth

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Instead of pulling others up, many managers choose to push people down. Micromanaging, blaming and holding people back, will only lead to a culture of distrust with high turnover, low morale and reduced creativity. The corporate world is littered with managers but lack leaders. Your most valuable asset is your people.

Collins

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Integrity is by far the most important attribute of a leader!

Brigette Hyacinth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Treating others poorly – not showing respect or empathy, micromanaging employees, not trusting them to do their job. Your ability to influence is not just based on skill or intelligence; it’s based on trust and requires integrity, which is the foundation of real and lasting influence.

Loyalty

Loyalty Emotional Intelligence Micromanagement Committee

Improvisational Leadership: Use Improv to Avoid Leadership Pitfalls

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 20, 2017

But we all know people in the business world who do a terrible job in leadership positions: awful bosses, disengaged department heads, ineffective team managers, and otherwise bad bigwigs in nice offices who make the work environment an unpleasant one. This leadership dynamic is based in micromanagement, rooted in a fear of failure.

Leadership

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Three Reasons Why The Situational Leadership® Approach Is Effective

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

From Frederick Winslow Taylor and Scientific Management to Chris Argyris and Immaturity-Maturity Theory, the Situational Leadership ® process integrates the contributions of the most prominent researchers of leadership and human motivation. If leadership is an “attempt to influence,” then trust is “influence potential.”

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Expert Strategies to Turn Workplace Clashes to Collaboration

Skip Prichard

MAY 15, 2024

But here’s the twist: understanding how to manage these disagreements effectively can pave the way for improved workplace relations. And while we think these contraptions are a great invention for parents and babies, metaphorical genies can derail your influence and impact and destroy trust. Dealing with a micro-managing boss.

Strategy

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Leaders As Control Freaks

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 29, 2018

This is the micromanager who nitpicks about performance to such an extent workers are emotionally exhausted and anxious. More than ever longstanding and excessive tension is robbing leaders of innovation, creative problem solving , positivity and productivity. Managing stress and energy is key to high performance every day.

Henderson

Henderson Delegation Stress Energy

October 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Inspiration/Creativity. Leading friends and former peers is one of the most difficult challenges faced by newly promoted managers. Julie Winkle-Giulioni of Julie Winkle-Giulioni provided Are You a Micromanager or a Macromanager? Inspiration/Creativity. Resilience. Engagement. Communication. Development. Leadership.

Leadership Development

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Preventing Workplace Burnout

The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In so doing it will distinguish burnout from cyclical job or task-related regression, and will also provide strategies for employees and managers to consider for enhancing workplace health. Excuses are offered at seemingly every turn for anything remotely resembling new, creative, out-of-the box or difficult. What Is Workplace Burnout?

Absenteeism

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The July 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 1, 2012

Sometimes theres a theme, depending on the time of year or host's creative bent. Part One: From Wayne Turmel , The Connected Manager blog, here's Why WebEx is like Soylent Green. Art Petty , from his Management Excellence blog, presents Just One Thing: Always Add Clarity to Challenge. Submitted by Melody Bridgewater.

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Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday

Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Environment matters to productivity, job satisfaction, retention, collaboration, creativity and more. I would add to the Decide to engage point that you should not micromanage. Are you intentionally looking for what people are doing right? Decide to create a positive environment. What environment are you choosing to create?

Learning-by-Doing

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Why Your Employees Count as Much as Your Clients

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

What effective managers and leaders must recognize is that it begins with caring about the people who drive your business. Poor Management Leads to Poor Employees. Nothing will drive an employee away or decrease their performance and motivation faster than poor management practices. Managers and leaders are not made equal.

Motivation

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Completely distributed teams working from home mean that you couldn’t micromanage even if you wanted to. Not only are employees happier, creative and energized, but companies that promote collaboration are five times as likely to be high performing. As a leader, you work in the influence business. Leadership is about empathy.”

Leadership

Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality

Aim Higher: Servant Leaders Put Others First

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Influence through service is more powerful than influence through position.” I was about to say, “Don’t worry about it,” but the clerk pushed the button for the manager, and we were off to the races. The manager looking hassled. The opposite of empowerment is micromanagement.” The manager. Put Others First.

Servant Leader

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Mastering your Inner Game of Leadership

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”. Rather, they possessed a unique motivational profile - a very pronounced need for power or influence.

McClelland

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In Praise of Peacocks, Nerds, Dorks & Dweebs | You're Not the Boss.

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

The good news is that many of these folks manage to extract themselves from what might have otherwise been mind-numbing existences and to fly to dizzying heights of success simply by insisting on being themselves. Those jobs I found myself micromanaged nearly all the time, but I feel more productive and creative now than ever before.

Gordon

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What is the Worst Leadership Styles and Why

Lead from Within

JUNE 25, 2020

A leader’s behavior is the single biggest factor they bring to bear on influencing others. Agile, creative leadership has the power to energize, engage and motivate people to go the extra mile for their organization. Micromanaging leadership. Part of the problem is that most micromanagers aren’t even aware of what they’re doing.

Leadership Styles

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