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Five signs you are micromanaging your team.
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- 23 August 2023
Amy can pinpoint when she realised she was operating at the wrong level.
Up to that moment, she thought she was doing okay in her new leadership role.
Amy had been exceptional in her old role. She was a technical expert and a star performer for the team. That’s why she was promoted into this role when her boss moved on.
Amy was slow to realise that the skills that had got her to this spot were not the ones she needed to lead her current team.
Amy realised she was operating at the wrong level when she received the results from the organisation-wide engagement survey. The comments made by her team about her leadership style were damning.
The team accused her of micromanaging and almost standing over them to do their work. They said that Amy criticised anything they did and often took work back from them and redid it. As deadlines loomed, she took more and more work off the team, as she didn’t believe they were doing it the ‘right’ way.
Amy was so anxious to succeed that she was acting autonomously and not engaging her team. She was working longer hours and becoming frustrated with what her team wasn’t doing.
Do you relate to any of this? Here are 5 signs you may be micromanaging your team
- You are involved in absolutely everything that your team is working on.
- You are meeting with stakeholders, and several other team members are also attending.
- You are the liaison between other areas and your team – for everything.
- As a perfectionist, you struggle to let things go. You are afraid that mistakes will occur if you don’t stay across everything, so you make sure the team does it just as you would.
- Your team has told your boss that you are micromanaging them
If any of these resonate with you, you may be at risk of alienating your team. Which for you, can lead to burnout and overwhelm.
Click here to download a copy of my 'Control Freak' Checklist and find out if you are at risk of micromanaging your team.
