Right now, whether or not you’ve begun to take concrete steps to improve the culture within your team, there’s a “temperature” that can be used to gauge how close to the boiling point your team is. Sure, the temperature may have briefly dropped when you had to make the switch to working from home, but after hopefully combing through each detail of your culture and reworking it to fit the times we were in things rose again.

You see for all the planning and careful construction and deconstruction of your culture that we do, it’s inevitable that there will be times where our team is just on fire, and other times where we’re ice cold.

We can’t stop every single event that will impact the ‘temperature’ of our team and our culture, but what we can do is make sure that we’re prepared and capable of getting things back on course in a moment’s notice when needed.

Think about a hot tub. You see it and there’s just steam rising from the water, it’s inviting and you know the water is nice & hot. But now imagine someone drops a pot of ice cold water in that nice warm hot tub? For a brief minute or two, the temperature of the water probably dropped and maybe it’s no longer steaming.

But then just like that, the cold water begins to go through the heating process, and before you know it the temperature is right back to where it was beforehand.

Your culture is no different.

When things cool down your culture, you want to be able to systematically raise that temperature right back up and get things right back on track.

We can’t always stop outside events and situations from having an impact on our culture, but what we can do is always ensure that we have an accurate reading on the thermometer and that we have a system in place to get the temperature right back to where it needs to be.

Give that one some thought today, and have a great rest of the week.