MICROMANAGING IS SELF-DESTRUCTING
By Stu Leventhal - Editor of Guru Marketing Tips
You vetted these employees and chose them over many other applicants. You may even have gone out and recruited some of your key crew members, so why won’t you let them do the job you hired them to do? No matter how great of a worker you are you cannot be everywhere all the time.
Employees have a role to perform and an obligation to their; employer, the brand they work for, their bosses and their co-workers as well as to those clients and customers they signed on to serve. Your crew represents you and the company more than even the products and services being offered. It is important that employees live up to certain standards. But that does not mean you as boss are supposed to hold their hand all day long.
If you do not have trust in those you’ve employed then you need to address the reasons why you do not have confidence in them. A boss’s unhappiness with an employee’s performance does not automatically mean that the individual should be fired and replaced. More training and mentoring may be the best move.
Employees must produce or the rest of the crew that is working hard, every day, all day, will feel underappreciated. Yes your job as boss is to check up on the job performances of others under your command. These employees should also be getting all the support, the proper tools, the education and adequate time they need to do their jobs efficiently too. That is not the same thing as you, the boss, making all of the key decisions for everyone.
You should not have to stand over everyone’s shoulder, for their jobs to get done correctly and on schedule. Your job is to lead the team! Direct and set realistic achievable goals. Keep everyone focused and working together towards the same destination…success! Everyone wins together! Someone has to oversee to coordinate everything so it all keeps going forward. But each team member has to do their part too.
You can only teach and cheer your team members on so much; eventually they each will have to step up to the plate and swing the bat all on their own.
Employment is a two way street; management, bosses and owners of the company give and get some and so does each employee give and get. There must be honesty and trust between upper management and the crew members; each must have each other’s backs. Still each also has their own agendas. There will be compromises made on both sides of the fence, for things to run smoothly and profitably.
Yes there will be arguments, setbacks, challenges and mistakes made but it is the relationships and bond you have grown with your team members that will ultimately get you all through the hardest times.
When trying to be a good leader, remember these wise word from USA General George S. Patton, “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with the results.”
Micromanaging is simply not a wise trait of a good boss!
Employees have a role to perform and an obligation to their; employer, the brand they work for, their bosses and their co-workers as well as to those clients and customers they signed on to serve. Your crew represents you and the company more than even the products and services being offered. It is important that employees live up to certain standards. But that does not mean you as boss are supposed to hold their hand all day long.
If you do not have trust in those you’ve employed then you need to address the reasons why you do not have confidence in them. A boss’s unhappiness with an employee’s performance does not automatically mean that the individual should be fired and replaced. More training and mentoring may be the best move.
Employees must produce or the rest of the crew that is working hard, every day, all day, will feel underappreciated. Yes your job as boss is to check up on the job performances of others under your command. These employees should also be getting all the support, the proper tools, the education and adequate time they need to do their jobs efficiently too. That is not the same thing as you, the boss, making all of the key decisions for everyone.
You should not have to stand over everyone’s shoulder, for their jobs to get done correctly and on schedule. Your job is to lead the team! Direct and set realistic achievable goals. Keep everyone focused and working together towards the same destination…success! Everyone wins together! Someone has to oversee to coordinate everything so it all keeps going forward. But each team member has to do their part too.
You can only teach and cheer your team members on so much; eventually they each will have to step up to the plate and swing the bat all on their own.
Employment is a two way street; management, bosses and owners of the company give and get some and so does each employee give and get. There must be honesty and trust between upper management and the crew members; each must have each other’s backs. Still each also has their own agendas. There will be compromises made on both sides of the fence, for things to run smoothly and profitably.
Yes there will be arguments, setbacks, challenges and mistakes made but it is the relationships and bond you have grown with your team members that will ultimately get you all through the hardest times.
When trying to be a good leader, remember these wise word from USA General George S. Patton, “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with the results.”
Micromanaging is simply not a wise trait of a good boss!
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