An Employee's Guide to a Micro-manager
Have you ever been assigned an important task by your manager? You are given a deadline to complete it. Your manager, who assigned you this task, believes in your capabilities. He has assigned this task to you, because he believes only YOU can do it. He touch bases with you at every crucial stage of the task, keeps dropping at your desk and rings you to check the progress. He keeps hovering over your shoulder. Welcome the Micro Manager . The Micro-manager guises his compulsion to interfere under the cloak of “an attention to detail”. My dear friends these control freaks, who “want to drive you to success” risk disempowering you. There is a very thin line between an INVOLVED manager and OVER-INVOLVED Manager. Agreed,it is a manager’s job to help push the work of the team along – instructing, motivating, guiding, directing, prompting, reminding, and yes, sometimes even doing the work him/herself. The difference lies in whether all that effort is really adding value to