Nobody becomes a micromanager on purpose. But if your team is double-checking everything with you, you're in every meeting, and your high performers keep asking for more work you're not handing over, you might be doing it anyway. In this episode, Lia draws on her own experience being micromanaged at Google to break down the three specific tells, and what to do when you recognize yourself in any of them.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why being in every meeting is a trust problem, not a time management problem, and how to step out without things falling apart
• How making every decision trains your team to stop making decisions of their own
• Why turning down a high performer who asks for more work is one of the clearest signals they're about to leave
• The specific moves that start building trust so you can actually hand things off
• The time math: how much you actually get back when you address all three

Resources mentioned:

• The New Manager Playbook: liagarvin.com
• Work with Lia: [email protected]

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