Are You A Micromanager?

Do you know if you’re a micromanager as a leader? Do you know if your people consider you a micromanager? The tricky thing about micromanagement is that its universally frowned upon, but not universally defined or acknowledged. In other words, everyone agrees micromanagers are bad-but no one is willing to admit they are one. A recent poll found that 59 percent of employees surveyed believed their boss was a micromanager. If the majority of people believe they’re being micromanaged, there’s a good chance most bosses have micromanager-like tendencies.

So, are you a micromanager?

In this article, we’ll review five questions you can ask of yourself or your team to discover if you’re actually a micromanager.

Do you have a long list of pending approvals and decisions that await your action?

Part of every manager’s job is to review the team’s work, make decisions, and approve proposals and budget expenses. But just how many approvals are in the queue is up to the style of an individual manager. Micromanagers tend to become bottlenecks for their team-they want to review everything in-depth before signing off on it and, as a result, they leave their people waiting, wasting productive time in the process. That leaves the time feeling like they’re constantly bouncing between “hurry…