For many businesses (and if you’re the leader of a school, know that your school is a business too), our pandemic reality has caused us to realize once and for all that “That’s the way we’ve always done it” can never be uttered again. Everything changed during the pandemic – and everything is now different.
And we don’t like change, right? We like everything to remain just the way it is. Change means we have to move outside our comfort zone. And if things were OK yesterday, then it’s OK for tomorrow.
Unfortunately, that’s not how it works. Living things change. Daily. Hourly. Actually, there are changes every microsecond of life. If things don’t change, they stagnate. And then, die.
The thing is that change really isn’t a logical thing. It’s rooted in emotion. Here’s a great video to illustrate why we think change is hard, and what we can do about it: Change – from the Heath Brothers.