Micromanagement: Page 4

Employee Experience & Recruiting

What Happens When You Empower Employees Instead of Micromanage Them?

Employees granted autonomy over their schedules actually work more. Reason? They're more content.

Leadership

4 Signs a CEO is 'Holding the Stick Too Tightly'

The best shots in hockey come from a firm but relaxed grip on the stick. Business leaders need that same sort of hold on their organizations.

Starting a Business

4 Founding Essentials for Creating a Culture of Resilience

How founders communicate and set expectations when the company is tiny will have big implications when it scales.

Leadership

4 Signs That Your Workplace Millennials Are Turning You Into a Helicopter Boss

What? Hovering again at work? Better to build a relationship of trust and accountability.

Leadership

7 Strategies for Managing a Micromanager

These types of overseers can suck every ounce of ambition out of you and leave you frustrated, angry and annoyed all at the same time.

Employee Experience & Recruiting

The Value of Butting Out: How to Stop Micromanaging

With better access to information, the hovering micromanager who needs to direct every employee action and check in on every decision has no role.

Leadership

Quiz: Are You a Micromanager? (Infographic)

Find out if you're the dreaded control freak boss bullying your office, in 10 quick and very telling questions.

Employee Experience & Recruiting

7 Ways Toxic Managers Stifle Employee Motivation and Productivity

Collaboration, communication and respect are the modern management norm but not every boss has gotten the memo.

Leadership

These 5 Leadership Styles Have Never Worked for Anybody

Some people are born leaders but most of us have to learn. It's easier if you skip the stuff proven not to work.

Leadership

The 3 Ways Leadership Is the Opposite of What Most People Think

Leaders don't succeed by barking orders and imposing their will but by delegating, trusting and taking responsibility.

Growing a Business

5 Lessons Golf Teaches About How to Succeed at Your Business

There is no such thing as a perfect round of golf, just like there has never been a business that went flawlessly from launch to profitability.

Productivity

You're Actually Hurting Your Business With These 5 'Productive' Habits

Are your productivity hacks really making you better? Many are myths that are actually holding you back.

Employee Experience & Recruiting

Build a Culture of Ownership at Your Company

Every startup has two types of employees. Here's the type your business needs.

Leadership

Entrepreneurs, Have No Fear of Trusting Your Employees

You weren't afraid of risk when you launched your business, now take the risk of trusting your team to help you grow it.

Employee Experience & Recruiting

6 Alternatives to Micromanaging Employees

Communicating goals and letting everyone know how their work contributes reduces the need to micromanage.