{"id":2070,"date":"2013-08-11T03:48:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T07:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2013-08-12T09:12:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T13:12:56","slug":"are-you-an-overbearing-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2013\/08\/11\/are-you-an-overbearing-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You an Overbearing Boss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do your employees think you\u2019re a little overbearing? Does conversation cease and only the sound of clicking on keyboards can be heard the minute you walk in?<\/p>\n<p>If the scenario sounds familiar you may have employees that feel a little too babysat. I recently read an article from Inc. that gave a list of items that may help you assess whether or not you are considered an overbearing boss. Here is what they have to say:<\/p>\n<p>1) Do you easily become impatient with people who don&#8217;t appear to feel the same sense of urgency you do?<br \/> 2) Do you consider yourself a competitive person? Do other people find you competitive?<br \/> 3) Have friends or family ever told you that you are being unrelenting or too driving?<br \/> 4) Do you have an open-door policy, or do employees freely email you with their questions and ideas?<br \/> 5) Do you receive a lot of feedback?<br \/> 6) How often do you get into arguments?<br \/> 7) Do you typically offer your opinion, whether it is solicited or not?<br \/> 8) How often do you let other people give you directions or tell you what to do?<br \/> 9) Do you ever deliberately provoke mild-mannered people because you think a little confrontation would be good for them?<br \/> 10) When you drive, do you consider a traffic jam to be war? Do you shift lanes, cut off other drivers, and prematurely exit the highway in attempts to find a quicker route?<br \/> 11) Do you think being called a &#8220;Type A&#8221; personality is a compliment?<\/p>\n<p>If you do find this list fits your personality type, be careful. Employees that feel the boss is too overbearing can cause a lack of motivation when it comes to work, and we all know what that leads to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do your employees think you\u2019re a little overbearing? Does conversation cease and only the sound of clicking on keyboards can be heard the minute you walk in?<\/p>\n<p>If the scenario sounds familiar you may have employees that feel a little too babysat. I recently read an article from Inc. that gave a list of items that may help you assess whether or not you are considered an overbearing boss. Here is what they have to say:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-management","category-employee-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}