INSTANT MBA: Don't Micromanage Your Employees
Today's advice comes from Ilya Pozin, founder of Ciplex, via his post on LinkedIn:
"Most of us are trained to believe that practice makes perfect; but the best advice I've ever received preaches the exact opposite: Don’t be a
Pozin says perfectionists tend to micromanage and it's important to give your employees room to think for themselves. If you try to control everything they do, employees will end up feeling patronized by you and will begin to resent you. If you get too hung up on the details and constantly point out what they are doing wrong, your
"My old ways of micromanaging forced employees to not feel autonomous and prevented them from thinking creatively on how to solve problems on their own. Employees would feel stress instead of feeling empowered to make their own decisions. They constantly felt demotivated and incompetent. There would be feelings of resentment and an overall hostile work environment. Not being a perfectionist is a lesson that I look at as not just a piece of advice, but a worldview and a core value."
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