To hate being a line manager?

[Ezlo]

I line manage a few people. I'm still fairly new to line managing and one of my direct reports is great and enthusiastic, but her enthusiasm has had me telling her she can't do things a few times now. I think she goes head in without thinking about it properly sometimes and as we don't work in the same location, I can't always keep an eye on what she's doing and she doesn't run everything past me. It's now causing issues because it's causing me more work to have to pick things up when she has been over enthusiastic and the consequences haven't been considered. I guess this is just a rant.

I've learnt a lot in the 10years I've been doing it, but managing people is hard!

In this scenario I would lay out clearly what her job role is ( set the expectations)

Be clear about not going outside that role

She needs to rectify any situation she has got into that she shouldn't have.

Are you giving her opportunities to develop and delegating things to her proper with clear instructions? Sounds like she is looking for projects but not getting it right or not clear on the process.

You can do all the right things though and it still be difficult!

I applied for a job today with no line management responsibilities 🤞🤞🤞

lay out a process where she must get things olk’d with you first, it’s not optional.

make her correct her own mistakes, even if it takes her ages. She needs to understand the hassle of making amends and sorting the mess out. If you need to give her step by step instructions that’s fine