From the course: Managing Up as an Employee
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How to survive the micromanager
From the course: Managing Up as an Employee
How to survive the micromanager
- One of the most dreaded bosses of all time is you guessed it, the micromanager. This is the number one boss that people complain about. Nobody likes working for a micromanager because these are the people that are always looking over your shoulder. They're always checking in on everything you do and they give you no autonomy whatsoever. It's really frustrating, really annoying, and quite frankly, a little soul crushing. So let's take a look at what drives this behavior. And then I'll give you a couple of strategies of how you can navigate a micromanager. See, here's what happens in the human brain. Human beings have neuropsychological needs. One of these neuropsychological needs is the need for autonomy, your need for autonomy, my need for autonomy. The feeling that we are captains of our own ship, that we get to make our own decisions and have her own agency. However, another neuropsychological need is the need…
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