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How does it work?
- The host starts the meeting, usually a manager or system administrator.
- The presenter's view opens in another browser window, and participants can join through the web or the mobile app.
- The host can then share the presenter's view (the new window that opened) from their screen, either directly in the room or through screen sharing.
- The group starts to discuss the suggested topics and agrees to one or several commitments.
Do I need to come up with a meeting agenda myself?
No, Winningtemp has your back and suggests meeting topics regarding the temperature in the nine categories. For each category, there are also questions (appreciative) to help you facilitate the meeting. Do you want to pick an agenda yourself? That is no problem. The host can choose custom topics to focus on if you need to.
How are topics suggested for meetings?
Guided Temperature Meetings focus on relevant topics based on team dynamics and temperature trends:
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First meeting - The first meeting for a team aims to build trust and foster collaboration by focusing on team spirit, with communication and mutual respect at the core. It also includes job satisfaction, emphasizing motivation and engagement.
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When the team changes - When one or more team members are added to or removed from a team, Winningtemp supports the transition by highlighting participation, ensuring every team member has a voice. Additionally, it addresses the work situation, focusing on workload and team dynamics.
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Temperature-based topics - Future meetings prioritize areas that need improvement while avoiding the repetition of previous discussions. The highest and lowest temperature scores are included to ensure relevant and meaningful conversations.
Meeting format
Each temperature meeting starts with a follow-up about the previous meeting to see if it's going well with any other commitments. When working with inquiries, you reflect by yourself (not anonymously), followed by an open discussion around everyone’s input. Each topic is concluded when you decide on the team’s commitments from now on. The meeting ends with a summary of all the team’s commitments.
On-site meetings
For the best experience when the meeting is on-site, we recommend sharing the presenter's view on a large screen for everyone to see. Participants can then reply to the inquiries in Winningtemp using their mobiles or computers. If no screen is available for sharing, the presenter's view could be shared in a video meeting instead, and participants can see the inquiries and reply using their computers.
Remote meetings
In a remote/partly remote meeting, share the presenter's view with the team in a video meeting.
What do I need to prepare before a Temperature Meeting?
The good thing about our guided temperature meetings is that you don’t need to prepare anything before they start. The Appreciative Inquiry framework focuses on an organization's or team’s positive attributes, strengths, and successful experiences to create a desirable future. You are guided through the meeting with questions that help you generate ideas and commitments.
Would you like to prepare the meeting agenda yourself? The host can choose topics, categories or inquiries to work with 5 days before the meeting if you wish. However, as mentioned above, you don’t need to prepare this beforehand. We suggest the category for you, and the inquiry can be determined during the meeting.
If the host decides to make the topics available beforehand, the participants can participate in the inquiry before the meeting and start reflecting on it. The agenda for your upcoming meetings will include this.
Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry is a positive, strengths-based approach to organizational development and change management. It involves focusing on the organization's or team’s positive attributes, strengths, and successful experiences to create a desirable future. Instead of looking at problems, we focus on the positives and the moments when things went well. Appreciative Inquiry aims to inspire and engage individuals within an organization in a collaborative process of inquiry, discovery, and transformation.
Temperature meetings in Winningtemp are built with appreciative inquiries for each category to guide teams toward more meaningful and productive discussions. The team can choose the appreciative inquiries available during the temperature meeting. These appreciative inquiries facilitate talks and commitments.
What is a Commitment?
During the temperature meeting, you pledge to commit together as a team to something. It could be a set of actions, changes in behaviour, or changes to your way of working in the team—anything that makes you a more effective and engaged team.
You can also use AI-generated commitments (available in Winningtemp Labs), which summarise the employees' inputs added in the previous step. These AI-generated commitments can be used as is, modified or skipped as needed.
How are Commitments different from Actions?
Commitments are formulated together as a group during Temperature Meetings with your team; they have no predefined format because they should be able to be many different things. Most importantly, they are decided together, and starting with a commitment is easy. Write the details about the commitment at the meeting or later. You can also turn a commitment into an action in Winningtemp to track its progression further.
How should we work with Commitments in our team?
Everyone’s collective responsibility is to focus on the commitments you agreed upon. Every subsequent temperature meeting starts with a follow-up of your commitments from the previous meeting.
All active and closed commitments are visible in a list view under Temperature Meetings to give you an overview. You can also find them in the Actions tab.
How frequent should the Temperature Meetings be for best results?
Working with temperature needs to happen in real-time and should be a continuous process for the team. We recommend having a temperature meeting at least once every 30 days, preferably as often as necessary.