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Why Your Team Thinks You're Interrogating Them | Selina Meere

1 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this dialogue, the speakers discuss how remote work and rapid team scaling can create misunderstandings. Speaker A notes that Zoom meetings and strong pre‑existing opinions can trap people in "perception boxes" that prevent them from truly hearing what’s happening. Speaker B adds that as leaders lose the ability to attend every meeting, they must ask more questions, but they must also pre‑frame those questions, build trust, and explain the purpose behind seeking information. Without giving context, inquiries can feel like interrogations, damaging team morale.

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Misunderstandings are very easy, right? Especially in the age of Zoom with a lot of big opinions. You know, some people will go in with their perception box and not really hear what's actually happening.
I've experienced that happening though, where I really wasn't at all thinking that this person wasn't doing their job. But like you said, when you're not able to be in all the meetings, and especially as you're scaling and the team is growing and you're not able to be as close anymore, but you're still trying to have a pulse on everything. You gotta ask a lot more questions. And so I think pre-framing and building the trust and giving your team an understanding of why you're doing what you're doing is so important instead of just going in and interrogating people without giving them the context and why you need the context.