The Power of the Daily Huddle

​The greatest teams have 3 things in common:

1. A structured, repeatable process that all team members follow.

2. Clarity of expectations of each other and a willingness to work hard to develop and maintain high cohesiveness to achieve their team goal together.

3. A coach who is an expert at the repeatable process and who ensures the team has clarity of role and position, while keeping the team highly cohesive and focused on the team result.

One process of the Aligned Execution System of the RYD Business Good to Great Journey is the Daily Huddle.

The CEO and their Leadership Team meet daily for 15 minutes or less for the Daily Huddle; and each leader across all levels meets their team daily. Each leader attends 2 Daily Huddles, except the CEO.

Here's the agenda of the Daily Huddle. Each team member shares in round-robin fashion including the CEO / team leader. The CEO / team leader participates as an equal member of the huddle — answering the same questions as everyone else. This is deliberate. The huddle creates horizontal accountability and transparency across the team. The CEO modelling vulnerability — sharing their own stuck — is essential to making the culture real and the team more cohesive.

1. Good News
2. Metrics
3. #1 Thing to complete in the next 24 hours
4. Stucks, Support needed, Questions

Sharing good news with each other not only strengthens the culture but also increases team cohesiveness.

The following 3 agenda items contribute to making execution effortless, giving back the weekends to our family and unlocking an abundance of time for us to Have It Al:
i. Each leader's #1 metric linked to their Top 5 quarterly priorities. Identifying this alone will remove a lot of inefficiencies in execution.
ii. Each leader shares their #1 thing to complete in the next 24 hours.
iii. Where am I stuck? What support do I need? What are my questions? Removing stucks, on a daily basis, increases individual and team productivity with a compounding effect.

Doing a Daily Huddle daily ensures the weekly Strategy Execution meeting can focus on moving the business forward instead of fire-fighting.

We can be busy being busy, or we can follow a repeatable system with discipline for scaling the business to win the gold medal in the Olympics of Business.

Let's keep playing to be Love in each moment (Leadership Depth), playing to be a student in each moment (Craft Mastery) and playing to win in each moment leaving the outcome to the Universe (Business Excellence) to joyously lead ourselves, our kids, our relationships, our people and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure together along the way.

Love and Light,
j.

Source: Metronomics by Shannon Byrne Susko, Scaling-up by Verne Harnish
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