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Trying to be too controlling and not trusting my team. You have to get to know your team and what their strengths and weaknesses are so you can strike that balance between getting your hands dirty and giving your team agency to get things done. Be self-critical, improve, and always communicate.
I wish my manager could figure this out for one of my projects, the control/lack of trust & delegation is slowing everything down and frustrating me and other team members who are ready to get things done but can't. Whereas on a different project where I'm the acting manager, I've let the rest of my staff really drive a lot of the daily work while I focus on overall management and client communication, and things are running so smooth and moving forward well.
It makes a huge difference!
Assuming I got hired due to my experience where I could fix their problems rather than just STFU and tolerate them.
DoO1 genuinely terrible period of my working life.