Recent studies reveal that excessive micromanagement can lead to high turnover rates, decreased employee morale, and ultimately effect the connection to value and outcomes in your business.
The key to breaking this cycle isn't more oversight—it's empowerment. Empowering your team can lead to increased accountability, connection to the core purpose, solid outcomes and a thriving workplace culture.
“I can solve this by hiring the right employee next time. They will take the load off, and then I can return to running the business.”
As we all know, finding the right fit is a challenge. These candidates exist, and are more difficult to find, but this won't solve your micromanagement challenge.
“I just try to pay them more if possible, as well as offer benefits."
We all know money is a big external motivator, so you might think that increasing your offer – paying more or offering better benefits - is the answer, only to discover that you begin to micromanage again.
"I don't understand why they aren't clear on the expectations of the position. They have a job description" Let's face it: most businesses have typical job descriptions for the position, but they don't seem to serve well to create clarity around accountability. "If the job description were better, this would help me delegate more and be less of a control freak."
Traditional solutions like revising job descriptions or increasing salaries have proven to be short-term fixes. They don't address the root cause of the problem: a lack of clear expectations that support growth, development and accountability by empowering your team.
Define and Describe Key Positions: Align your company’s key roles, responsibilities, and behaviors with your core values, and bring clarity and confidence to your team.
Cultivate Accountability: Clear and concise expectations support accountability and help to drive performance.
Empower Your Team: Enable your team members to demonstrate behaviors and actions that support the business's core purpose and values with confidence and conviction.
Boost Leadership Efficiency: Mitigate the tendency to micromanage, allowing more time and energy to work on the growth and development of you and your team.
Simplify Your 1-on-1 Meetings: Whatever your meeting cadence is with your team members, your PST provides an objective tool to guide your conversations.
Strengthen Your Onboarding Process: Provide 30-60-90 day targets that provide the clarity a new employee needs to be successful in their position during a traditional probationary period.
Judy is a seasoned business owner, former clinician, and certified professional coach (CPC) with 40 years of experience. Having successfully managed 4 businesses across different states, she understands the challenges of leading and developing teams while running a business. She holds certifications, including International Coach Federation (ICF), Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ), WHY Institute, and is a Founding Actuator™ at the Culture Fix Academy™. Her extensive work with business owners and their teams using her 6-Step Framework helps develop and empower their most valuable asset, their people, by creating balanced work environments that drive a successful and thriving business.
PT, ACC, CPC, C-IQ Certified
Executive, Business, and Team Coach
Mary Ann Allred
Clinical Director
Julie Bergman
Business Owner
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