How to Avoid Micro Management

Good managers get results and help to achieve organizational goals. Management focuses on the team work results rather than individual goals. Managers are responsible for planning, staffing, organizing, motivating and good leadership. While doing all this, it is important to keep your team happy and avoid micro management.

Instructions

1. Do not follow people around too closely and inspect everything they do. If someone's work needs to be inspected or reviewed once or twice, that is acceptable. But if she has successfully done this task before, give her some space.

2. Allow your staff and others to make some decisions. You should be involved in the big decisions but they should be able to handle the everyday decisions that are specific to their position.

3. Acknowledge and accept errors and mistakes as part of learning. Micromanagers will usually punish or hold someone back from a promotion if they make mistakes.

4. Delegate work to your employees, and let them show that they are capable of meeting deadlines or leading a project.

5. Know these symptoms of micro management: Feeling that you know your staff's work or jobs better than they do, performing most of your staff's tasks, rarely praising staff, being overly critical with staff, arriving and leaving later than staff every day and calling in several times a day when you are out of the office.

6. Notice a lack of interest and motivation from employees or teams. This is a sign of micro management.

Tips & Warnings

• You get better performance and greater results from happy employees.