Like this article? PLEASE +1 it! Evan Signature
Evan Carmichael Top Header about About Home Profiles articles Tools forums inspirational quotes About facebook Twitter YouTube Blog

micromanager boss Tagged Articles



Dealing with a Difficult Boss
If you are blessed with a fantastic boss - one who is supportive, encouraging, competent, and confident, who wants you to be successful and cares about your professional advancement - then you’ve hit the jackpot. Nurture this relationship and work hard to show that your boss’s investment in you is worthwhile to him/her. Unfortunately, not everyone’s boss is close to this ideal. The following are examples of difficult bosses and how you can make working for this person more manageable.

Other micromanager boss Related Articles

Getting Along with the Boss
Getting along with your Boss can sometimes mean the difference between having a successful career or the job from hell. Here Terri offers advice on how to get along with the grumpiest boss.

10 Steps To Managing Your Boss!
Building relationships is vital in business. When you are employed and have a boss it's even more critical, because you have an incentive to get the best from your boss - and the onus is on you. For bosses, try on this as a set of expectations your people have from you...

Dealing with a Difficult Boss
If you are blessed with a fantastic boss - one who is supportive, encouraging, competent, and confident, who wants you to be successful and cares about your professional advancement - then you’ve hit the jackpot. Nurture this relationship and work hard to show that your boss’s investment in you is worthwhile to him/her. Unfortunately, not everyone’s boss is close to this ideal. The following are examples of difficult bosses and how you can make working for this person more manageable.

How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Micromanagement.
Are you constantly checking the work of your team members? Are you a perfectionist? I define micromanagement as: Often unintentionally, a micromanager delves into too much detail. Rather than allowing people the responsibility and freedom to do their job, the micromanager monitors and reviews every task. This obsession with detail causes resentment, affecting staff performance in a negative way. Micromanaging causes frustration. In the end, it can provide the impetus for staff to leave.

Escaping the Entrepreneurial Seizure: Interview with Michael Gerber
Michael Gerber’s name should sound familiar. I recommend his bestseller, The E-Myth Revisited, as the must-read classic on automation. It brief, it discusses how to create scalable businesses that are based on rules and not outstanding employees; and how to become an owner instead of constant micromanager. Michael also had a enormous influence on me as a first-time writer. His words to me were simple during our first lunch:

Managing The Boss 10 Questions to Ask the Boss to Help You
How do you manage the boss that seems unapproachable? You need to know the boss' expectations to do a good job. Read the 10 questions you are entitled to ask the boss.

Be the new kind of Boss!!
It used to be the boss was the boss and she told you what to do. But now there’s a New Boss in town. This New Boss says we’re not operating from a bureaucratic model any more. We’re into lateral management and we want you to think for yourself. Think for myself? When did that become part of the job description?

You Can't Brown Nose Your Way to Success
As a recent USA Today article points out, relationship building with your boss can be a bit tricky. While you want to be positive and build a strong relationship, you don't want to come across as someone who is too aggressive in managing upward -- or what the article called "brown nosing." On the other hand, you can't be so afraid of being seen by your boss and coworkers as a brown noser that you never give your boss or other leaders in your company, any positive feedback. The best way to do this is to be authentic. Give your boss some strokes when he or she does something that you really appreciate, or think was a truly great idea. Don't give him or strokes just for the sake of making him or her like you better.

Make Business Ownership a Reality through Franchising
If you’re like many people you’ve probably fantasized about how different your life would be if you were your own boss. Whether it’s the ability to be in control of your own success, schedule or future that leads you to daydreaming about being your own boss, you’re not alone.

6 Tips to Avoid Being Micromanaged
Being micromanaged is something most of us have complained about at some point. We get a task to do, then the boss keeps badgering us with details of how we should do it. The result is a feeling of exasperation or even helplessness. Clearly, having a micromanager for a boss reduces our empowerment and energy to do the task well. Usually we blame the boss. This article turns the logic around and suggests that we can do things to prevent being micromanaged.

Featured Article

Bottom Footer



Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!
Name:
Email:
Popular Articles

Are You An Accidental Consultant?

When Your Smiling

Are You Too Good for Your Job?

Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.