How do you hold back from micromanaging... everything?

Published on April 30, 2025

Supervisors tread a fine line when it comes to the management of their learners. 

One key role of the supervisor is ensuring the safety of the practice's patients - a quality control function that can easily slip into micro-management.

Given another of the supervisor's key roles is ensuring the safety of their supervisee, it is vitally important to note that micromanagement is considered a form of bullying. An example of this is provided in GPSA's new guide Navigating bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment in the general practice workplace:

Micromanagement - Excessively monitoring, changing rosters without consultation and controlling someone's work

How do you tread that fine line between quality control / a suitable level of instruction and micromanaging your trainees?

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