I see a lot of different businesses while I’m speaking and consulting and coaching and doing all of the different things I do in my business. It’s very interesting to see what happens when people get micromanaged. Micromanagement happens on all levels of business – whether you’re a big company or a small business.

One of the most important things in your business, is your people. How you handle your team, how you deal with people, whether you have a virtual team, where people are in different countries, or all over the US, or, whether people are actually, physically in your office with you.

There are a lot of different ways to micromanage, and it’s interesting that even in situations with large companies, whether it’s a franchising or a licensing situation, or something like that, how not only employees get micromanaged, but the business owners who are using the services of the parent company, get micromanaged as well. And, when you get in that situation, micromanagement then begins to show up everywhere in the company and you end up micromanaging everything.

We manage systems, not people. Systems are important and you need to have them in place at all levels of your business, no matter if you’re just starting out or if you’ve been in business for years. We don’t really manage people, we manage systems.

So, the great thing about having systems and putting systems in place is that it cures this micromanagement issue. It allows us to look at our systems and see if the system is being followed in our business.

So, if you spot check and call your own business and the person answers the phone incorrectly, now, it’s not about managing them properly, it’s going back and looking at the system that’s in place, correcting the system and then the people really managing themselves working through your systems.

The more you grow, the bigger you get, the more people you have in your business and in your life, the less successful you’ll be if you feel like you have to micromanage everything and everybody.

Because, now you own a job and not a business.

So, see how many ways you can let go of things in your business.As an entrepreneur, you tend to be a little controlling. You’re a control freak. You want things to go a certain way. You’re driven and want to have success.

You want your people to be treated a certain way. Whatever it is… so put those systems in place that need to be in place and then trust the people you’ve hired – trust yourself to have made good decisions about your hiring that you can let them go and do the things that you’ve entrusted them to do.