New managers often micromanage and avoid hard conversations to stay comfortable, then do tasks themselves instead of delegating. They set inconsistent expectations based on personal relationships, favoring some employees like Sarah while treating others like Margaret differently. Accountability needs to apply equally across the team.
They don't know how to hold people accountable. There is a huge disconnect now because these are their coworkers. They avoid hard conversations. They don't want to have a hard conversation. The easiest thing to do to spend your time is micromanage. How'd you do that? Why'd you do that? Why didn't you do it the way I do it? Let me show you how I do it. So I'm back to doing what I did before I was managing because that's my comfort zone. I think that there are inconsistent expectations because they know the people. Well, that's okay. I know Sarah doesn't do well with this, so I just want you to do it over here, Margaret. You do it. Yeah. And I'll let Sarah do these other things. It's inconsistent. If it's the same job, there should be the same expectations.
