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Stop Micromanaging: How to Empower Your Staff

Your fierce commitment as a studio owner can lead to the disastrous trap of micromanaging. This lose-lose approach usually ends up with you burning out and your staff leaving.

Join Coaches Matt Hanton and Caroline Plambeck for practical suggestions on how to escape this common mistake in Episode 671: Stop Micromanaging: How to Empower Your Staff.

  • Let it go: accept that it’s OK if the job is done at 80% of how you’d do it 
  • Delegate and educate: introduce autonomy gradually and share clear SOPs
  • Paint the big picture: teach your team the “why” behind the work
  • Empower and align: allow freedom within the framework to reach KPIs/outcomes
  • Help, not hover: check in, invite questions and ask for feedback 

Y’all, micromanaging is like helicopter parenting. No bueno. Break away so that your fear or need for control doesn't frustrate your team or stifle your business. Learn how in Episode 671.

Catch you there.

With grit and gratitude,
Lisé

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