Learn English – Expression to use when you are not dressed or otherwise ready to meet someone

How 'bout calling it a perspective shift or shifting your perspective into the drone?

Shift: To transfer or move, as from one person, place, or position to another: as, to shift the blame; to shift one's quarters; to shift the load to the other shoulder.

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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

It's a bit of an equivocal phrase unfortunately, particularly since shifting is also used in literal reference to a change in modalities and any mere movement among other interpretations too. An example is that metaphorically this word combination is often used for changing your "personal outlook" on various manners in order to feel better about things and solve problems, as you might be able to see from the tag on the Huffington Post's website..

However, in the quoted sense this still literally describes what is happening quite well. I think the context should make the intended sense of a spatial shift of perspective relatively clear due to the general inapplicability of the the word's other meanings.

In my shop we call this getting too deep into the weeds, which is the opposite of taking the thirty-thousand-foot view.

I'm afraid business-communications outfits like mine are sorta heirs to the Madison Avenue tradition that created gems like run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.