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Micromanagement: I have no freedom

Micromanagement: I have no freedom

From the course: Bad Boss: Dealing with a Difficult Manager

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Micromanagement: I have no freedom

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- The next boss problem, and it's a very common one, is micromanagement. The boss wants to control the way you do every detail of your job. They want to know everything that you're doing. And it's annoying. I mean they're not necessarily a bad boss. They care, they want you to do the job right. They want the job to be done well. And maybe they do know better than you. Perhaps that's why they're the boss. But it is annoying. And my suggestion for this really is to retrain your boss. Get your boss to be a better boss. And that would mean that you would say to them, "I'll do it my way if I may. "Well that's okay, I know how to do this. "You know, just leave me to do it, it's fine." The think about retraining your boss is that it may require repetition. They won't get it the first time. It's a bit like, imagine if you get a new puppy, and you bring him home and you put him there in the middle of your living room carpet. What's he gonna do? He's probably gonna pee on the carpet, isn't he?…

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