Micromanaging means being overly prescriptive on tasks and follow ups with your team members — to the point of taking learning opportunities away from them. This behavior can be especially hard for new managers to avoid, as they may feel pressure prove themselves to their direct reports and boss. Here are three ways to break the cycle:
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As a new manager, you care. A lot. We get it. We appreciate it. But when caring turns into having to control every single thing, from the wording choices in a consequential email to the shade of blue used in the internal team website, you’ve taken it to the extreme, and it’s time to rein it in.
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