4 Signs That Your Micro-Management Isn’t Working.
Often when you run a business, it’s normal for you to want to micro-manage everything. You believe that you know how to run your company best.
You think that if everyone follows your orders, you’ll be successful and you can build a brand based on our own hard work and the employees that listen to you.
However, that’s the wrong way to go about creating a business and there are times when you need to take a step back and realise that your micro-managing behaviour is actually ruining your business, not making it more productive.
You lack faith in your employees
If you want to get the most out of your employees, then you need to understand the importance of trust.
If you don’t have faith in your employees, then you’ll find it hard to trust them with critical tasks and you’re going to start managing everything.
This destroys any creativity they have when solving tasks and seriously limits their growth as members of staff.
You can’t handle all of your tasks
If you feel like you don’t have enough time to get through a day’s work without chugging coffee and working overtime, then look for help from a business management service such as SAP Business One.
But however much a management service can help you, you also need to consider that you’re perhaps trying to stick your fingers into too many people’s work.
If you have to micro-manage a dozen different employees, then you’re obviously not going to have much time to worry about your own tasks.
Everyone, even the CEO of a company, has their role to play and you aren’t helping anyone by looking over the shoulders of a dozen different people at once.
You leave no room for creativity
If you constantly ask your employees to do their jobs in a specific way and ask them to repeat their work when it doesn’t fit your needs, then you need to reconsider your stance.
If you’re telling your marketing team how to market and you’re upset at your accounting department because they’re not doing things “correctly”, then you need to realise something: they’re professionals with a lot of experience and training.
You don’t have as much experience in marketing as your marketing department, your accountant could run circles around you with numbers, and even your janitor is better than you at cleaning. Let them perform their roles and don’t stunt their growth or creativity.
You are the bottleneck
If you’re constantly swarmed with requests to check work and make decisions, then it could be that your micro-managing ways have created a bottleneck. That bottleneck is you.
If you’re always the reason for projects being delayed and work getting around slowly, then you have to realise that you’re slowing down the efficiency of your business and that you’re not doing anyone any favours.
Remove yourself from that bottleneck and trust your employees, don’t make it any worse for yourself and stop micro-managing your company because it could cost you a lot of time, effort and money in the long run.
*This post was written for Morning Business Chat.
