High-Performing Teams

Recognizing if you're a micromanager is uncomfortable but essential for your and your team's growth.

Here are some clues that you might be a micromanager:

1. You struggle to delegate and even when you do, you stay involved with every detail (which is not true delegation).

2. You constantly check in with the intent of the employee communicating their every move or decision.

3. Your evaluation of work is subjective. It’s not that what the employee delivered is wrong but you prefer it to be different without support or justification for the change.

4. You feel like you have to be involved in order for it to be done “right”.

5. Your team seems disengaged or anxious. They were highly dependent on you, hesitant to make decisions and don’t take initiative (because they know they are not allowed to.