363: How to Stop Micromanaging and Build an A-Player Team

Are you a business owner who is tired of being the only one to get things right? Are you dealing with team members who are stuck and not taking initiative? You hired a team to take things off your plate, but instead, you’re buried in follow-up, approvals, and rework. Sadly, you’ve unknowingly undermined your team members and trained them NOT to take initiative. Ready to break this cycle?

In this episode, you’ll learn how to stop micromanaging and start building a team you can trust to OWN their work. Dr. Sabrina Starling and Melissa Kay discuss why micromanaging is a symptom of the real problem, the key traits of A-players, and how you can step into your role as a true leader. It’s time to cultivate employee happiness and freedom on your team!

Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production.

Show Highlights:

  • The first step in breaking the micromanagement cycle is to hire competent, capable A-players.
  • A-players are problem-solvers. Let them solve!
  • Establishing decision-making parameters for your A-players
  • Look for what’s right, not for what’s wrong.
  • Re-align your priorities and focus on key results.
  • Getting your team to the place where they can own their results
  • Dr. Sabrina’s insights into specific scenarios of micromanagement
  • Cultivating total trust in your team
  • Results you can expect from Leadership Bootcamp for your A-players

Resources:

Want to go deeper? Join our upcoming Leadership Bootcamp to build a self-managing team of people who own their roles. Reserve your seat today! We begin on September 25! Join us!

For more information about The Coach Approach or to join us in the next round, click the link!

Don’t wait! Download your Strategic Planning Guide and 2025 Tap the Potential Strategic Planner today!

Want to know the best attracting and recruiting strategies for small businesses? We can help! Learn more about our How to Hire the Best Course.

Retain, grow, and deeply engage your A-players with the Dream Manager Program! The best way to create buy-in from your team members for your vision is to identify how your vision supports them in achieving their dreams. Enroll today!

Become an employer of choice to attract the A-players you want on your team! We are now enrolling for the How to Hire the Best course. Sign up today!

Sign up for the free A-Player Development Plan/Mini-Course. Track your A-players’ development and retain your A-players!

Ready to take your life back from your business? Want more time for what matters most and more money in your bank account than ever? Book a call with us today!

Get your copy of A Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit!

Master your time and profit! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️.

Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach, and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com.

Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group

Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour.

Tune into the Profit By Design Podcast

Listen in to any episode on your favorite podcast player. Here’s just a few of our favorites:

Never Miss an Episode!
Get new episodes sent straight to your inbox.

About The Author

Tap the potential of your team and double profit!

Sabrina Starling, Ph.D., PCC, BCC, The Business Psychologist, is the international bestselling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation®.

The third generation in her family impacted by entrepreneurial hustle culture, Dr. Sabrina is transforming the story of success from long hours and grinding it out to work that supports and enhances life.

Hustle culture often means sacrificing our health, well-being, and relationships, all for the sake of success. Dr. Sabrina’s research shows this leads to burnout and pain in our relationships. There is a better way. Work supports life, not the other way around!™

Dr. Sabrina is revolutionizing the workplace with concepts like Work Supports Life™, 4 Week Vacations®, $10,000 an-hour activities, 25-hour workweeks, and unlimited vacation and sick time in highly profitable businesses winning the war for talent. She inspires transformation in a world where work often overshadows life, sharing insights from her ongoing research with over 650 entrepreneurs and their high-performing teams.

Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, and Thrive Global, Dr. Sabrina is the founder of www.tapthepotential.com and the globally top-ranked Profit by Design Podcast. Listed in The Daily Hustle’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022, Dr. Sabrina is on a mission to get 10,000 business leaders taking the Work Supports Life™ Pledge.

Our Small Business Coaching Resources Have Been Featured in

Read our latest press feature about AI.