I was speaking with two friends recently at different times
and they told me pretty much the same story about their bosses. They each work for control freaks, you know,
people who do not trust anyone to be an adult and do their work. These bosses keep tabs on every worker
regardless of whether these workers are stellar employees or slackers. They
believe that if they cannot see the employee doing their work then they must
not be doing their work.
I was amazed at the lengths these bosses go to in order to
make sure people are doing exactly what they say when they say it. It’s as though they have five year olds
working for them and they feel like they have to make every decision for the
employee or oversee every job they do.
To me this has to be exhausting. I mean think about it- you
are doing your own job then try to micromanage many employees on everything
they do. Are there enough hours in the day for that?
What type of boss are you? Do you hire competent people, let
them do their jobs and trust that the results will show you that they are
indeed doing their job? Or do you nit-pick and micromanage every person who
works for you? I hope you are the former
because if you are the micromanager you must really be tired!
Suzanne Cormier
Executive Director
BizWorks (Small Business Incubator)
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