these leadership styles, there are so many of them. and some of them feel the same. it makes me feel like looking same product with different packaging.

I struggle sooo bad at delegating 😩

The Company I work for wants to get Rid of The O.G . Boss...so they bring in another Donkey MTF who Quit and came back as a Nut sucker ..so they make Him the Big Boss now !!! This Guy talks like he knows everything!!! MTF is a Prick !!!

OMG do you still hire? (Just kidding, I'll keep learning and switch.)

wow..amazing .. i wish i knew these earlier .. i am definitely gulity of many of these mistakes you mentioned... Thank you

I think it's awful to have boss like this. I was a temp and this boss hollered at me saying I was doing the work wrong. Its also coming from upper management who alloys this behavior. Very rude and insecure.🤔🙄😒

Hi ..just found you. I am from Uganda. Great insights

Hahaha! T. Turn in your resignation.

I love that you grew up in Huntsville, Alabama! Great city!

My boss does every one of these things. I recognize he can’t help it and is truly well intentioned but it is very frustrating. I can say he has gotten somewhat better over the past 17 years. Sometimes he doesn’t even say anything out loud, just kind of looks around a little bit at the project I’m fabricating as to imply it should be going faster. I just have to not let it get to me, lol, but sometimes it is difficult

Management should be high level control, not micro level. Micro-manager is crazy! Google suggests micro-management should be loose, give team members opportunity to think independently and make independent decisions.

This is extremely useful for me. Thanks so much Hans.

This is a very good video. Thank you for sharing. I worked with managers who always check in and need to be in every single meeting and conversation, sometimes I just couldn't tell if they were micromanaging or just being proactive. But either way, I would feel I wasn't trusted. Also sad that most managers won't realize they are micromanager.

this is brilliant!

Quality content 115 views and no likes? Ill be the first

wonderful, God bless you!

This was pure gold. Thank you

The micro managers destroy thier own healths which is good lol

Servant leadership? An oxymoron. In the church we have servants: people with different roles, from organising to being organised. Leading people is supporting them to be effective in their roles.

I agree, top -down leadership is toxic and can become authoritative, dictatorship led, and a selfish, learned behavior.

Thanks so much you are a blessing to this generation Iam from Sierra Leone West Africa my name is Pastor Travis

Hi Hans! Recently I completed your book “ Top 10 ways to be a great leader”. I need your valuable advice on one of the real work life situation that I am stuck in. How can I connect with you. Email or something!

Micromanagers never last or the employee will just walk

❤️ love your leadership lessons!!! 🙏

Oh, my goodness! This video describes my manager exactly. She is so controlling. Can’t stand going to work. I am so miserable I want to leave.

Man I had to tell my supervisor that he was unprofessional he was nick picking about everything I was doing and instead of him pulling me to the side and talking to me about it he would be loud and rude about something that he didn’t think I should be doing. In front of other co workers.

It's difficult to dislike this video. For real. Thanks for the wisdom.

It's all about control. My initial thought was that overwhelming this person with communication and progress updates would instill trust, and enable some autonomy in my role, and dare I say, even increased responsibility.... it didn't. It only led them to seek further involvement in the additional work I was 'granted'. It's not about your work product - it's all about their control.

Everything millenial 1 said can be said about every generation by every generation.

This is sad.....this video should've had more views. Maybe too many people on the panel?

I have watched this video again, to remove the germs of micromanagement, from my mind. Best Regards #Nisar #Bin #Yousuf

Guilty as charged

Micromangers are amateurs, insecure, weak... did I say WEAK

If you don’t do it their way they want to get rid of you. If they can’t control you to conform they see you as a threat.

1:13 I had this problem. I found a way that was faster and effective, that was within company guidelines and process rules. However the AH Boss grilled me for half an hour, saying that it "concerned" him. I asked him ".....so did l do anything wrong?" , to which he said "no,". I also asked him "..has anyone form the other departments complained or has there been any negative feedback ?" ...again he said "no"..In the end I said "so what is the problem? ", all he said was".....l don't know, it just that your work on this issue concerns me". What a complete A***hole!

Hmm... Are we related?

Great wisdom and resonates with the core teaching of Lao Tzu (The Master), the author of TAO TE-CHING (CLASSIC OF THE WAY AND OF VIRTUE, 600 BCE) who wrote: VERSE 7. OTHERS BEFORE SELF (as paraphrased by me): The sage places himself last and emerges first. Because he subordinates himself, he is preserved. Is it not because he does not live for selfishness that he realises himself?

Wow you are amazing! Thanks a bunch ☺️

I've been in a micromanaging team for 2 years now and I can honestly say its been the worst 2 years of my life and my health both physical and mental has deteriorated immensely. They've been trying to get rid of me for some times now by micromanaging me to death and monitoring all my emails and work and asking to check them before I send them, then always finding ways to "fault" it. Even the most small tiny imperfections gets put on a pedestal while positive achievements and feedback from customers are never acknowledged by them nor have I received any encouragement or praise for any improvements I've made. Now they've placed me on an "informal work plan" accusing me of not doing a few things which I have been doing, just because I did it right 50 times it doesn't seem to matter but when I do it wrong once it becomes the end of the world in their eyes. It sucks , they tell me I can always check with them if im unsure about anything but when I do check with them they would tell me im relying on them too much and that I should be knowing all this, then during the times when I actually do my own research and did not get the answer 100% correct they would tell me off for not checking .....Its so damn confusing trying to get on their good side because I need to job for financial reasons. It's really hard when everything I do, they even time my toilet breaks, and lunch breaks, and if im 1-2 mins late they would make me stay back 1-2 mins even after work is complete just for the sake of "doing your hours". Ridiculous. Now they've collected a whole list of micro errors and some bigger errors that I've "made" recently and trying to get me fired through this performance plan which seems very hard to meet as they seem to expect absolute perfection always. Other team members has made mistakes too but they don't seem to be put on all these micromanagement measures, it just seems like im the only person being targeted here, at least more severely than others. I have reported this manager once before for racist over the phone to me she told me "clearly, our english is not on the same page" , ever since reporting her she has put me on this strict "performance monitoring" thing where I cant even send out an email without waiting overnight for her to approve it first and correct me. It almost feels like subtle / subconscious racism to me, they feel the need to correct the way in which I write even if the facts are correct and the language is easy to interpret. I've received many positive feedbacks from customers and they have never had a problem with my communication style. Im the only Asian person in a team of pre-dominantly females in their late 40's - 60's working in education offices. I have emailed HR for the second time just detailing the whole thing and how im being singled out and tabs beeing kept on me, I'm not sure if I have much luck because I've got 2 managers in the team against me trying to get rid of me due to technicality and performance issues, but it looks like they're the ones trying to purposely magnify and create issues so they can find a reason to get rid of me. I just honestly don't know what to do.

In normal situations my boss is not a micromanager at all, but the current pandemic with forced remote work is sadly evolving him into one. Before the lock-down working remotely was not allowed at all, so now during the pandemic he calls me multiple times a day on Skype for updates and to delegate me non-project related tasks. As a developer working from home is in most cases a lot more efficiently than trying to code inside the chaos of today's offices, sadly those Skype calls are now becoming worse than the chaos of the office building before the pandemic. I have tried to return to the office during the pandemic in the hope that there would be a bit more trust and less interruptions, to only meet colleagues suffering some kind of 'lock-down induced social-life deficiency' issue, resulting in the inability to shut their mouth for even 1 minute straight. But the biggest issue is the micromanaging reducing my productivity, followed by my manager increasing the amount of micromanagement due to lower productivity. Rinse and repeat endlessly. Yesterday I lost 3 hours in planned meetings, and another hour in fragmented unplanned meetings that could've been an email. At 10 am, 12 pm and 3 pm. Include another hour for mails in the morning and 5 hours have passed giving me about 3 hours left for actual coding. Today I lost two hours in two separate meetings, another two hours playing remote help-desk + 1 hour for mails, again 5 hours that I'm not working on the current project... For tomorrow there is already another big meeting planned ahead of 3 hours long with the whole team. Note that this does not include the preparation time required for each meeting! I understand that communication is important, but how can I explain my boss that those fragmented interruptions are massive productivity killers for my kind of work? I already tried explaining that it's a lot more efficiently to ask me all questions at once during a follow-up at 9 or 10 am, or during my lunch-break. Sadly without any result.

Some good points in there hans but as an agnostic, far too much religious reference for me I only come to listen to you talk about leadership not have religion quoted at me.

Micromanage until your team members are competent. spot check their work quality and production as many people stop putting in the same effort they started with or have personal issues interfering with work. If you want a profitable business, you need to be involved. Competent hard working people are not in need of micromanagement

Let's all step back and be clear here. If you are, like myself, a true servant leader, the reality is this gentleman[ is a presenter. Not a Servant leader. In othwr words, he is a mesanger but his "hustle" is to encapsulate a concpet in to strong/entertaining talking points thatv will bemefit organizational resources. Something the brass can tout to the board (we introduced the following in to our Leasdeship Channel) blah blah. It's like this> I have been in a leadership (15+ org) for 20 years now. the moment I realized the true impact a "boss" has on an employee, I realized how blessedI was to understand this and figured "I can either be lazy and think only of me....I can keep my mouth shut and just earn a chack....or I can learn from the oftern radical) leadersship amethods I've employed. Fine-tuning the good, and learning from the bad. Succing version..all my employees wake up each day excited about coming to work, (secretly( hoping I catch them in the act of doing something great (which I do daily)...and I cannot tell you ho many emplyees from my colleagues teams have approached me about joining my team. Remember, people rarely quit theri jobs. Instead, they get away from their sH*tty bosss. I insist my teak hold me accountable as I do them. My teams exceed (by far) all other like other like group. We deliver the most code at the most freuqnt intervsals, always hightst quality. Thid is not lip talk, instead supported by the analytics I pull so my team understands their impact.

Like the comments: "Only my way"

I want to be in a path of being a true leader. I hate being recognised as micro manager. Thanks Sir, You have done great job.

Ive hit 40 and I have mastered every profession I got into and have always fallen into the issue of wanting to delegate but get frustrated when it's not up to my standard. I am now on a monstrous path of getting out of the work area and learning to be an intelligent delegator. Yours is the first video on a new life path. Thank you Hans I like your style of presentation.

holy jesus, this is my former boss to a tee. I had to quit after 4 months, couldn't take her controlling issues and when I announced I was quitting, she had the nerve to tell me I was going to "learn with life" that I was wrong...just because I wanted more independency in the workplace. I was the 8th demission that year, so I rest my case.

As a person who worked for a micromanager for over a decade, it's best to look for another job or resign and move on. Being micromanaged to death isn't good nor healthy for your wellbeing. Despite my best efforts to maintain, the boss never changed and she got worse when she married the number 2 guy in the company. The boss's husband was also the boss of our department director. This made it easier for my boss to manipulate her boss, the director, into making my life a living hell on the job. I eventually resigned with a last day note on a Friday evening after work. I left and felt like a burden was lifted off my shoulders. It was the best decision I ever made!