E2L 010: Micromanagement for Managers (and employees) Pt3

Engineer-to-Leader: Creating Your Successful Engineering Career

Welcome to the Episode #10 of the Engineer-to-Leader podcast series. In Episode #9 Steven gave three examples of how employees could avoid having THEIR managers micromanage them.

In this episode, Steven show managers exactly how to avoid being labeled a micromanager no matter how much oversight they require of a team or an employee on a task.

Most managers don’t want to be labeled a micromanager but they aren’t always sure the employee will be successful so they want to monitor the employee and the task closely.

But most managers treat management as an on-off switch. They either have to monitor extensively and therefore are labeled a micromanager, or in an effort to avoid being seen as a micromanager, and in an effort to "empower" the employee, they don’t manage enough.

Management is not an on-off switch. There are plenty of alternatives to either micromanaging or disappearing.

In this episode, Steven will show managers exactly how to monitor to the extent they want without being seen as a micromanager.

And this episode is useful for non-managers as well. For those non-managers who want to become managers here is some insight into what you can expect to be facing as you move into management.

For those who are not managers or do not see themselves going into management any time soon, this episode will give you insight into what your manager has to deal with and will also give you some possible avenues for conversations with your manager around micromanagement and oversight.

So join Steven in this episode and get some specific advice on managing without micromanaging.

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