Recently, I joined a virtual meeting with a team from a school I\u2019ve known for some time. I was struck by how differently they were behaving toward each other. Pre-pandemic, they\u2019d been working in beautiful surroundings with free lunches, happy hours, and lots of lovely perks. Employees clearly had a lot of fun, but below the light-hearted surface, the culture wasn\u2019t great. Leadership was controlling, employees were complaining and blaming, and the overall culture was one of little personal accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the call, however, the dynamic had shifted. People were more engaged and honest, and were treating each other with far more respect. I asked the Principal, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDuring the pandemic, I\u2019ve realized I\u2019m a\u00a0control freak. I used to think I was a very caring leader when in fact, I tried to\u00a0micromanage everything,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she told me.\u00a0\u201cOver the past few months, I\u2019ve had to learn how to properly\u00a0hand things over.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>The need to control comes from a lack of trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Written By: Mr.C.P Yadav<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, I joined a virtual meeting with a team from a school I\u2019ve known for some time. I was struck by how differently they were behaving toward each other. Pre-pandemic, they\u2019d been working in beautiful surroundings with free lunches, happy hours, and lots of lovely perks. Employees clearly had a lot of fun, but below the light-hearted surface, the culture wasn\u2019t great. Leadership was controlling, employees were complaining and blaming, and the overall culture was one of little personal accountability. On the call, however, the dynamic had shifted. People were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28765,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28761\/revisions\/28765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}