If your boss tends to micromanage everyone then it is just his personality. Working with a micromanaging boss can make your workplace a very stressful place.
An Open Letter To Micromanagers Scott Berkun
A micromanager boss closely observes and controls their employees or subordinates work with excessive supervision.
How to handle a micromanager. You can either be a wishful thinker and wait for your manager to change or employ your critical thinking skills and take charge of your own experience at work. In working with other people show how your management style is. If your boss is only micromanaging you then you may have to improve your work habits.
How to work with a micromanager the right way. He also suggests you ask your micromanager for a chance to complete a task on your own and then discuss what went right and what went wrong in the hopes of coming up with a more efficient system. How To Deal With A Micromanager Now that we can better empathize with the micromanager here are four simple solutions on how to make the situation better.
This is called the judo move where you simply use your bosss force to help you win. Weaning the micromanager off their controlling belief system takes time and constant feedback. Look at things not as they are but as they can be.
Micromanagers feel the need to control every minute detail obsessively. I think the best way to deal with a micromanager is to find a new job with a better manager. Micromanagers need to be convinced that they hired the right person for the job over and over again.
A leader whos constantly looking over their employees shoulders can inspire a lot of second-guessing and paranoia and ultimately ends up running away their most talented people. Holding yourself open for your micromanager to teach guide and mentor can help keep your work relationship on the plane where it belongs. Treat the micromanager the way you would like to be treated.
This could mean being proactive about status updates check-ins and communicating regularly with your manager about your. Micromanagers are god awful to deal with they are frustrating kill your ability to do your job efficiently zap your confidence and drain your energy on a daily basis. Dont smother or micromanage back.
Kimbell recommends asking your micromanager why she feels you must be supervised so closely. They need to tell you how to do something youre perfectly capable of doing and they hover over you as you work waiting for a moment to critique any and all imperfect moves. This step can help you to learn.
Instead of telling them what task needs to be done by when a micromanager will continuously remind them of the work and closely watch their actions. In The Magic of Thinking Big David J. So to earn their confidence youre going to have to do the job their way for a while.
1 Defer and let them do your work. If you reply I actually already left a draft of the schedule on your desk for your review enough times youll minimize the need for her reminders. So a great start to halting micromanagement in its tracks is to anticipate the tasks that your manager expects and get them done well ahead of time.
It is just not worth it being insulted and dealing with them everyday. Give the micromanager space. More importantly the micromanager must know that theyre safe when they allow others to.
