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All right, so today we're going to talk about if you should be micromanaging your consultants.

So first and foremost, I think it's important for us to define what micromanaging means to us.

And micromanaging is basically basically we might have different definitions here but when you are constantly on top of someone looking over their shoulders trying to control the way they do their work maybe even try to control the way they write their sentences the way they do their work, maybe even try to control the way they write their sentences, the way they write their code.

You're basically kind of the puppeteer, right? And people don't like feeling that way.

So the agreement or the consensus in the HR world at least is you should never micromanage people right so I think for this episode we're going to talk about there's caveats to it and the answer is it kind of depends but Neil what are your thoughts around micromanagement? What's your definition?

Yeah, sure. So specifically when it comes to consultants, if you're paying a consultant because they're probably

are usually better at something than you. That's why you hire consultants. If you're

hiring someone who's better than you as something, you have to micromanage them

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