Yikes.

A common misconception about micromanagers is that they’re condescending, bad-tempered and inherently nasty individuals. The truth is, most micromanagers have the best intentions for their team but have developed poor habits resulting in micromanaging tactics. As such, they perpetuate the cycle of micromanaging as they’re demonstrating this is the way to lead others. Likewise, employees are not set up for success because they’re disempowered to make decisions on their own. Therefore, an employee’s leadership skills are limited because they’ll always rely on their manager.

For this reason, micromanagers are detrimental to the success of a business and the mental health of everyone involved. LinkedIn reported that 79% of employees have been micromanaged at least once in their career. Oxana Razumova, co-founder of Sensemakers, explained, “micromanagement is not just an unpleasant trait of a manager, it’s a strictly controlling management style, in which the boss doesn’t leave independence to employees.” As a result, employees disengage, feel demoralized and their creativity is stifled. Consequently, this prevents the team from flourishing.

Moreover, it increases stress, destroys happiness and decreases productivity and drives burnout. Thus leading to unhealthy habits such as poor eating, increased drinking, irritability, lack of sleep and long-term health issues.

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