Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Bill Berman and George Bradt , authors of the book, Influence and Impact , explain the importance of helping your employees to understand what their jobs entails, and what the culture expects, so they can do the work you need from them the most. Do not micromanage. Help build their self-confidence. Build trust.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

Micromanaging. He’s the author of the award- winning bestseller The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation and its follow-up release, Restoring Respect. N AME-CALLING. Stereotyping. Foul language. Is your workplace a hotbed of disrespect—and are productivity and collaboration tanking because of it?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

This article gives you some practical tips for better influence and less stress. Maybe Over-Involved Ivan has seen this movie before and it ended with him in a cameo role as “ The Micromanager Who Knew Too Much.” Sound familiar? You glance at your phone, and your heart does a mini samba. It’s Last Minute Linda.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Sometimes when I’m under the gun at work and feeling the pressure of all my responsibilities, I can get tunnel vision about accomplishing my own goals and forget how my behavior is influencing others. It’s not that I’m trying to be insensitive to people, I’m just not being mindful or intentional in my actions.

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 15, 2014

That makes a huge difference in helping more people discover it. We love to know your thoughts about this episode.

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Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

Principles are less micromanaging and more like guardrails. Leadership is influence. I define leadership as intentional influence so that we see it not as a passive activity but as a condition that we need to take responsibility for. If leadership is influence, then leadership isn’t a choice.”. Have No Rules.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Bill Berman and George Bradt , authors of the book, Influence and Impact , explain the importance of helping your employees to understand what their jobs entails, and what the culture expects, so they can do the work you need from them the most. Do not micromanage. Help build their self-confidence. Build trust.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A boss’s task is to influence and engage people, so it is essential that they understand how their behaviors affect other people. They micromanage. When a bad boss micromanages, they leave no room for people to develop and grow. If you’ve ever had a truly bad boss, you know how miserable the experience can be. They attack.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 24, 2022

Bill Berman and George Bradt , authors of the book, Influence and Impact , explain the importance of helping your employees to understand what their jobs entails, and what the culture expects, so they can do the work you need from them the most. Do not micromanage. Help build their self-confidence. Build trust.

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Kevin Eikenberry

APRIL 1, 2019

Are leaders exerting more control by micromanaging? Control is something we all want, and most leaders think a lot about control. Many of the big leadership questions revolve around control and who has it. Does control come from position? And what about control and employee engagement? The post What Can You Control?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 6, 2023

Bill Berman and George Bradt , authors of the book, Influence and Impact , explain the importance of helping your employees to understand what their jobs entails, and what the culture expects, so they can do the work you need from them the most. Do not micromanage. Help build their self-confidence. Build trust.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 1, 2018

The side benefit to you is that when you connect to people, you enable your ability to influence them and make an impact. They can’t see that if you continue to get involved in micromanaging the daily work they do. After all relationships are essential in the workplace just as they are everywhere else.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 11, 2022

Bill Berman and George Bradt , authors of the book, Influence and Impact , explain the importance of helping your employees to understand what their jobs entails, and what the culture expects, so they can do the work you need from them the most. Do not micromanage. Help build their self-confidence. Build trust.

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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.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 16, 2021

If your leadership is based in pestering, controlling, micromanaging and driving people, you’re taking your team for granted. Lead from within: When you are given the responsibility to lead, you’re also given the opportunity to be a positive influence many people’s lives. Hard-working people. The Leadership Gap.

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Brigette Hyacinth

NOVEMBER 20, 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. People don’t leave bad jobs.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s the ability to influence followers in order to meet organizational goals through change. Micromanaging your staff wastes company resources and frustrates employees. Showing their staff that they care is an essential component of the ability to influence. Make yourself available as a leader. Leaders can’t afford to be aloof.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It’s important to communicate not just what you want someone to do and (without micromanaging) how they should do it but also why you want it to be done and why the person you’re asking is the best person for the job. Many sources contribute influence in our lives.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 11, 2022

Bill Berman and George Bradt , authors of the book, Influence and Impact , explain the importance of helping your employees to understand what their jobs entails, and what the culture expects, so they can do the work you need from them the most. Do not micromanage. Help build their self-confidence. Build trust.

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Micromanagement How To Influence Training 65

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.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Leaders who refuse to accept the risk of trusting others are forced to rely on controlling behaviors like micromanaging, not sharing information, or performing all the work themselves. For trust to be established, someone must first extend trust, and it’s the leader’s responsibility to go first.

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Brigette Hyacinth

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Micromanaging, blaming and holding people back, will only lead to a culture of distrust with high turnover, low morale and reduced creativity. He made such an impact and influenced my leadership style. And how you treat them, is literally the difference between success and failure.

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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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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Avoid micromanaging. A middle ground can be maintained between complete freedom and micromanagement , but each employee requires a different balance. The Product Management Perspective: As a product manager you have a major influence on all those responsible for creating, marketing and selling your products.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

In our business organizations fear has a growing influence. To be a truly great leader you must tackle the three primary areas that fear can influence your organization and prevent your business from realizing increased returns and long-term value creation. Improve Decision Making.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 20, 2017

YES, BUT(’ers) ‘ Yes, but(’ers) miss a key truth: how you frame language can make an enormous difference in sharing ideas, brainstorming, relationship building, and creating culture and influence. This leadership dynamic is based in micromanagement, rooted in a fear of failure. Improv is by nature about failure and evolution.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 8, 2022

The Center for Leadership Studies has long defined leadership as an attempt to influence and power as influence potential. Each leadership style can be effective ( empowerment, participation, direction ) or, conversely, ineffective (a bdication, manipulation, micromanagement ). Power: The influence potential of the leader.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 24, 2016

This internal identity is shaped by a host of factors, such as birthplace, rearing, schools, and the people and events in our lives that influenced our beliefs and our aspirations. Identity influences almost everything we do. To Avoid Micromanagement, Minimize Unnecessary Rules and Excessive Controls. You May Also Enjoy: .

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 19, 2023

Referent authority assumes that leaders inspire and influence others by exhibiting strong moral character and personal values rather than position alone. Control Is an Illusion What do you lose by being an authoritarian — and “beating” employees into submission — or being a control freak and micromanaging every little thing that your kids do?

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

On Engaging Leader, we’ve often discussed how 21st-century teams require going beyond traditional command-and-control leadership (which I call Influence 2.0) to a more interactive mode that I call “engagership” or Influence 3.0. One crucial principle of Influence 3.0 is delegating authority for planning and decisions.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

APRIL 11, 2012

The project leader, a young man lacking much leadership experience, provided very little direction, except when things didn’t go as he wanted – in which case, he reversed team decisions and micromanaged. The team didn’t want him intimately involved because of his micromanaging, and so they stopped telling him about decisions they’d made.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

HarvardBiz: How to Get Involved Without Micromanaging People. B: Using Influence to Get Things Done. mikemyatt: #Leadership & Influence - 10 steps to making influence a competency. @visionorg: Six ways of thinking about the world have dominated the recent history of Western civilization. Try Being a Middle Leader.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Perhaps they have been delegating to members of their team that don’t have the experience necessary to succeed; or perhaps they have been micromanaging a tenured high performer. If leadership is an “attempt to influence,” then trust is “influence potential.” But what do you do as a leader to build trust … if you don’t have it?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Are employees allowed to influence the speed of the journey? Do leaders give responsibility but then micromanage every move by taking the wheel out of employees’ hands if they aren’t driving quite right? Do they allow employees out of the back seat and into the front seat? Changing seats changes employee’s view.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 28, 2015

Because it influences how colleagues relate, or fail to relate, to each other, culture affects the effectiveness of teams and business units, ultimately influencing the bottom line. The following terms can help you to better grasp what company culture is, how to influence it, and the type of culture dominant in your organization.

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Lead from Within

JULY 10, 2018

It plays a major role in your ability to lead and influence. But refusing to delegate turns you into a micromanager and erodes trust in your leadership, which leads to constant struggle. If you don’t lead with character, struggle is practically guaranteed. Great character is molded into great leadership.

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Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

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