Temperature
On a scale of 1 to 10, how safe do you feel in this room?
To get a quick feeling of where a group is individually or as a whole, take their temperature. Use [“On a scale of …”] to quantify this temperature.
Ideas on what types of things might be a good fit for a temperature – safety, level of confidence, happiness on a project, emotions, etc.
Often you might want especially high or low numbers to talk about why if they are comfortable. If not, encourage them to talk to you in private.
When employing this pattern in a group, you have a lot of choice over what to do with the data. Here are some choices.
- allow people to verbalize it
- average it to get a group temperature – then write it on the wall
- graph all the temperatures – a histogram
- kinesthetic graphing – like graphing the temperatures on the wall, but have some of the people move the other people so that they are physically grouped. this gives the group a better understanding of who is where
- graph the group temperature over time
. You can allow people to simply state where tehy Some things people do are let people say it, average it to get a group temperature
Variations
Anonymous Temperature
Credit to
Edree Allen told me about Kinesthetic graphing
Catalog
Safety
Discussion
Organizational
State Of Mind
Put Your Distractions On The Shelf
Language
"What are you going to do about that?"
"The purpose of the meeting is..."
"I see..., I feel..., I imagine..."