21

May

Curtailing your need for detail

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3coze

delegation, detail, goals, leadership, management, micro-management, micro-manager, targets, thresholds, weeds

Bad Leaders, Contribute, Personal Development, Right Words to Say

Do you have micro-managing tendencies? As a leader, do you only feel confident when you feel like you have your finger on the pulse of your organization? Do you love getting to the root of an issue, no matter how far into the weeds it takes you? Is your favorite part of the meeting the […]

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27

Nov

How to stop the cycle of micro-management

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3coze

autonomy, coaching, consequences, delegate, empowerment, micro-management, punishment, quality

Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Contribute, Horror Stories

The tendency to micro-manage can start in response to someone’s dereliction of duty deep in the organization or it can start at the top with an unhealthy need for control. Regardless of where it starts, micro-management becomes a vicious cycle that quickly reduces the value of everyone involved. I heard a great story that exemplified […]

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23

Oct

How to add value as a leader–Part 2

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3coze

abdication, escalate, governance, leadership, micro-management, monitoring, quality, review

Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning

In my last post, I was ranting about the number of people who like to think of themselves as leaders but who are just glorified (and overpaid) individual contributors.  I started to describe the activities that leaders at any level need to do to get their team on the right trajectory and going the right […]

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19

Oct

Are you failing as a leader?

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3coze

bad leaders, goals, incompetent leaders, leadership, micro-management, priorities, strategy, thresholds, trade offs

Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Contribute, Horror Stories

Somehow, we’ve ended up with very few leaders in our organizations and a whole heck of a lot of very highly paid individual contributors. I’m getting pretty frustrated by this. I know immediately that it’s a problem in an organization when the CEO starts talking about upward delegation and a lack of accountability, even from […]

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16

Oct

Should you get involved?

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3coze

delegate, guidelines, incompetence, management, micro-management, risk, thresholds, weeds

Be a better team leader, Communicate, Contribute, Right Words to Say

Leaders often choose the wrong issues to get involved in. They meddle in activities that can and should be addressed by their subordinates while neglecting decisions that only they can make. Many leaders are consumed by the minutiae and out of touch with the strategic. The costs of both problems are high. Are you getting […]

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07

Oct

Wasted time in meetings

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liane

detail, disempowerment, in the weeds, inefficient meetings, listening, meetings, micro-management, waste of time

About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say

  Teams, and especially executive teams, spend way too much time in the weeds. It’s a colossal waste of precious time together and, in my experience, the main reason why people are so fed up with meetings. Team time should be spent on the issues and discussions that require the team. (Oh if only this […]

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19

Mar

In the mirror: How much is enough structure?

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liane

deal with micro-managing boss, Discipline, frustrated by manager, micro-management, micro-manager, Need for structure, planning, predictability, too much structure, undisciplined

Be a better team member, Communicate, Personal Development, Right Words to Say

The Knightsbridge Vital Teams™ process helps team members understand their styles and needs and the impact they have on team dynamics.  We use the Birkman Method® as our tool in this process.  This is the third in a monthly series where I’ll help you look in the mirror using some of the insights that come […]

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