tags: #publish links: [[Management]], [[Micro-management]] created: 2021-07-14 Wed --- # How to avoid people feeling micro-managed - Perception will vary in different people - observe carefully and adapt your style - Your approach needs to change depending on people's level or independence ([[Situational Leadership - directing, coaching, supporting, delegating]] framework) - Junior/new people often need much more direction to feel sufficiently supported *but* this doesn't mean you tell them everything to do - More experienced folks will actively hate it - If you direct people with all the details or check or critique too much, and they don't want or need it, they may feel patronised, controlled, overruled or micromanaged - Unless they repeatedly show that they *need* that direction *temporarily*: aim to frame "what are the goals" rather than "what to do" - Then if correction is needed, ask questions if they have gaps - Trying to let them identify more of the missing things to do themselves Also see [[Principle of Least Astonishment applied in reverse to simplify communication]].