Temperature measurement

You use the temperature measurement to analyze the current state of affairs. There is usually a further specification of the results, for example per team. Team members then determine which obstacles they consider to be most important and which elements they experience as being strongest during the change process. Then they determine the appropriate improvements and think about how they can strengthen those things that are going well.

The red areas of the temperature measurement indicate the highly negative and negative judgments; the green areas indicate the positive and highly positive ones. For each of the topics one can see which percentage of the people think the situation is 'below zero' and which percentage think it is 'going well'. When more than half of the people judge a topic negatively, that topic can be construed as an obstacle to change. Conversely, topics that more than half of the people judge positively can be construed as contributing to the success of the change process.

The context of the organization and the change are consequential for the meaning of the figure. The interpretation of the negative judgment of the timing would be different if the merger had taken place two years earlier, for example. That is why the people concerned determine for themselves what the most important positive and negative results are.