Facilitate Daily Standups
Facilitating Daily Standups effectively is crucial for maximizing the benefits of this agile practice. If your team is already conducting standups but not seeing the anticipated improvements in productivity and engagement, learning to facilitate these ceremonies expertly can make all the difference. As a skilled facilitator, you'll be able to:
- Guide Focused Check-ins: Ensure that the standup remains succinct and on-topic, preventing time waste and building collaborative momentum.
- Enhance Decision-Making: Quickly synthesize new information and steer the team towards actionable solutions, not just updates.
- Foster Teamwork: Frame the ceremony such that everyone feels comfortable sharing drags and blockers with the shared goal of resolution not blame, strengthening team cohesion.
These skills are essential for keeping standups valuable and effective, turning them into a catalyst for true team agility and responsiveness.
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Who It’s For?
This advanced skill set is designed for:
- Team Leaders who need to refine their standup facilitation to drive productivity and team alignment.
- Innovation Leaders looking to enhance the structure and outcomes of daily interactions within their teams.
- Project Managers who coordinate multiple stakeholders and need to maximize the usefulness of daily touchpoints.
- Agile Coaches aiming to instill best practices and improve the efficacy of trusted rituals within their teams.
If you are involved in steering team dynamics and want to elevate the effectiveness of your daily standups, mastering facilitation best practices is key.
How It Works
Our experienced coach guides you through each step, giving you direct feedback on your work and helping you develop innovation as a core competency. You will use your own projects to ensure that the theory is immediately applied to real-world scenarios.
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Focused Guidance
Develop new skills with a small cohort and direct coaching.
Interactive Sessions
Run live exercises with an expert coach during our weekly sessions.
Materials & Frameworks
Get self-study learning materials and frameworks.
What You Learn
By focusing on facilitating daily standups, you will acquire:
- Standup Facilitation Techniques: Learn to manage group dynamics and keep these meetings crisp and targeted.
- Problem Resolution Skills: Equip yourself with strategies to unearth and address team challenges effectively during standups.
- Engagement Strategies: Discover how to keep the team engaged, feeling safe, and motivated, ensuring standups are a platform for empowerment not just reporting.
Real-world applications will demonstrate how improved facilitation can:
- Lead to faster project turnaround times and smoother workflow.
- Reduce communication overhead and confusion.
Enhance team morale and collaboration through better structured and more engaging standups.
Designed by Successful Entrepreneurs and Experts
Tristan Kromer
Tristan Kromer works with innovation teams and leaders to create amazing products and build startup ecosystems. He has worked with companies from early stage startups with zero revenue to enterprise companies with >$1B USD revenue (Unilever, Swisscom, Salesforce, Fujitsu, LinkedIn).
Megan Wilder
Megan is an Innovation Coach and Process Designer. She brings ten years of experience in project management and consulting - analyzing data, solving problems, and communicating with stakeholders. Her key strengths lie in providing design solutions that balance both the business and user needs.
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