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Working with a control freak:

1) Realize that we can’t help it. 2) Realize that we do our best to overcome.

1. 3) Ask us for a list of what we need to have done. 4) Ask us HOW we’d like things done.
2. 5) Write it down for us. If we give you a whole bunch of random stuff that needs to be done, write it down and email that list back to us. This way we can look it over, change our minds, add, and subtract and send it back to you. 6) Ask us questions about what we want and how we want it before we flit off on another subject. Keep asking until you have enough information from us to understand what we want. 7) Do what you say you are going to do. Nothing makes us run away faster than not doing what you say you are going to do.
3. 8) We have to be able to trust you. You need to be honest EVERY time – even if it means telling us what you think we don’t want to hear.

These tips should help you, the control freak, overcome that freakish side and for those of you working with us, maybe this will make it easier. We control freaks really aren’t as scary as it may seem. Yep, that’s right, I admit it – I’m a control freak. I wonder if there’s a 12-step program for that. I wanted to bring this issue up as a benefit to all of those poor people out there (virtual assistants especially) who work for people like me. And for the benefit of all of my partners in making the misery – my fellow control freaks.

Being a control freak isn’t as bad as it sounds. You just have to realize where your limits are and of course, it’s best if you can admit it so that you can begin to deal with it. And if you’re working with or for a control freak, you just need to know how to deal with us. Really, it is possible to overcome some of your control-freakishness and it is possible to work with us.

I’m going to wager that most control freaks are A-type personalities (or if you prefer to talk in terms of D.I.S.C. profiles - high Ds). That’s not all bad. It means we’re the ones who put ourselves out there on a daily basis, are driven, and make the world go ‘round. We’re also very task oriented (e.g. get it done!). We’re usually very successful and we don’t give up until we’ve got what we want and then some.