Don't Be an Every Minute Manager
Don't Manage Every Minute
Too many bosses seek to control their employees' every nanosecond at work. But it only kills motivation and stresses everyone. by Liz Ryan, BusinessWeek Online.
Set the goal, help sort out priorities, take down barriers and then let them run.
With micromanagement of professionals, you will own the work, not them.
The only time constraints I put in place was defining smoke breaks in our 8 to 5 work day to:
before 8:00am, 10:00am (5-10 minutes), lunch, 2:30pm (5-10 minutes), after 5:00pm.
I had to implement this in the Spring when we had such a string of nice weather, 2 of my guys were taking a smoke break every hour for about 20 minutes a shot. I told them management and hourly production workers had complained to me and they deserved better press than to get labeled as slackers.
Too many bosses seek to control their employees' every nanosecond at work. But it only kills motivation and stresses everyone. by Liz Ryan, BusinessWeek Online.
Set the goal, help sort out priorities, take down barriers and then let them run.
With micromanagement of professionals, you will own the work, not them.
The only time constraints I put in place was defining smoke breaks in our 8 to 5 work day to:
before 8:00am, 10:00am (5-10 minutes), lunch, 2:30pm (5-10 minutes), after 5:00pm.
I had to implement this in the Spring when we had such a string of nice weather, 2 of my guys were taking a smoke break every hour for about 20 minutes a shot. I told them management and hourly production workers had complained to me and they deserved better press than to get labeled as slackers.
posted by kingchrisg at 4:36 PM
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you hate to be a parent at work, but sometimes you have to
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