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<p>One of the best pieces of advice I&#x2019;ve ever received is: &#x201C;Be the thermostat, not the thermometer.&#x201D; A thermometer reads the temperature in a room and merely reflects it back. A thermostat reads the temperature in a room and then regulates it by turning up the heat or cooling it down.</p>
<p>In a work context, the temperature can be: levels of stress and anxiety, engagement, sense of urgency, or velocity of your team. As a leader, it&#x2019;s not enough to just be able to read that temperature and reflect it back. It&#x2019;s up to you to regulate it through your words, actions, and example &#x2014; to bring it up or bring it down, given where your team needs to go.&#xA0;</p>
<p>Once you start thinking about leaders participating in team dynamics as thermometers versus thermostats, you can&#x2019;t unsee it. When I observe leaders read a team&#x2019;s state and then purposefully turn up the heat or cool it down, I think, &#x201C;Now, there&#x2019;s a thermostat at work.&#x201D;</p>
<p>Here are three ways to be the thermostat with your team.</p>
<h3><strong>1. Normalize challenges.</strong></h3>
<p>Things go wrong, and that&#x2019;s to be expected. When a team, especially one with inexperienced members, is dealing with a setback or an unexpected challenge, worry, concern, or panic can set in. When emotions are high, thinking isn&#x2019;t clear and planning can go off the rails. It&#x2019;s harder to be <a href="https://postlight.com/insights/functional-in-the-face-of-anxiety" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">functional in the face of anxiety</a>.</p>
<p>The thermostat in the room sees and communicates the following:&#xA0;</p>
<ul><li>Unexpected problems are par for the course.&#xA0;</li><li>Everyone goes through them, and there&#x2019;s not much new under the sun.&#xA0;</li><li>This same exact challenge has happened before; therefore, we can handle it again.&#xA0;</li></ul>
<p>It&#x2019;s usually the more experienced folks who have seen the situation before, and therefore can show up calmly and easily say, &#x201C;Yeah, this isn&#x2019;t surprising. Here are a few approaches we can use to figure out what to do next.&#x201D;</p>
<p>I&#x2019;ve seen shoulders lower when they hear, &#x201C;Oh this, this has happened before, and here&#x2019;s how we handled it. This is just a bump in the road and we&#x2019;ll get through it.&#x201D; Normalizing challenges is a very powerful way to take down stress and make even the stickiest situations feel more tractable.</p>
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<p>When a team is facing a challenge with multiple factors, when lots of elements are out of their control and there is a domino effect of scary dependencies, it&#x2019;s a natural human thing to feel like everything&#x2019;s falling apart &#x2014; and to react with stress and anxiety.&#xA0;</p>
<p>&#x201C;It&#x2019;s all going to hell!&#x201D;&#xA0;</p>
<p>&#x201C;We are totally screwed.&#x201D;&#xA0;</p>
<p>This is when it&#x2019;s time to isolate and frame the problem around the things you <em>can</em> do.</p>
<p>Recently I&#x2019;ve been enjoying Apple TV+&#x2019;s <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7772588/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">For All Mankind</a>, a soap opera involving space travel. In an episode deep into season three (no spoilers!), NASA scientists are gathered around a conference table in Houston and absolutely freaking out. Astronauts are in danger, their oxygen is running out, and there&#x2019;s no workable rescue plan. When one of the leaders, Dev, proposes a plan, the reaction is immediate and fierce: <em>It&#x2019;s too dangerous! They will die if we miscalculate by even one meter! </em>With everyone looking at him with wide eyes, Dev says calmly, &#x201C;My friends, these are engineering problems. And we are engineers. Shall we begin?&#x201D; And everyone gets to work.</p>
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<p>When you can break a big challenge into its smaller parts, identifying the parts you can control and framing the challenge in front of the team as exactly what they&#x2019;re able to do, a thermostat takes in the heat and turns it into action.</p>
<h3><strong>3. Put a clear plan forward.</strong></h3>
<p>&#x201C;I don&#x2019;t even know where to start.&#x201D;&#xA0;</p>
<p>When a team or a person is overwhelmed by a big challenge and can&#x2019;t see the path forward, a thermostat starts drawing the map. They say: &#x201C;Okay, we&#x2019;re going to chip away at this step by step. Here&#x2019;s step 1, here&#x2019;s step 2, and here&#x2019;s step 3. Let&#x2019;s start there, and regroup tomorrow.&#x201D;&#xA0;</p>
<p>A clear plan channels everyone&#x2019;s energy into action and staves off paralysis. <em>Doing</em> something that&#x2019;s part of a clear plan calms the room and brings purpose and momentum in a time of overwhelm. Clarity around what happens next brings everyone&#x2019;s stress levels down.</p>
<h3><strong>Be the thermostat</strong></h3>
<p>Becoming a thermostat takes practice. Team dynamics and emotions are contagious, so it&#x2019;s easy to reflect back what the group is feeling but it can be harder to regulate it. However, once you start to observe the temperature of a room, and see how it&#x2019;s not serving the group, you&#x2019;ll realize you want to change it and you can &#x2014; and you&#x2019;ll appreciate the leaders who do.</p>
<p><a href="https://postlight.com/about/gina-trapani" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Gina Trapani</em></a><em> (she/her) is CEO at Postlight. Send her a note at gina.trapani@postlight.com or follow her on </em><a href="https://twitter.com/ginatrapani" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Twitter</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<p><em>Gina learned about the thermostat concept from Michael Hyatt on </em><a href="https://mh.fullfocus.co/podcast-self-care-leadership-discipline/?transcript" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>this podcast</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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