The Art of the Morning Huddle: How to Use This Simple Tool to Build Your Team.

Abstract

A well-planned and focused daily huddle meeting with your employees can greatly impact your medical practice team's ability to work cohesively, create a seamless flow, increase efficiency, reduce stress, and provide exceptional patient care. This article explores these and other benefits of morning huddles, including how medical practice managers can use morning huddles to build and foster team morale. It offers 12 practical tips for creating and using morning huddles, including a sample huddle agenda and recommended logistics for holding a huddle meeting. It also describes nine benefits of morning huddles and four practice management goals for huddles. Finally, this article also offers eight fun ideas to keep morning huddles interesting and three strategies for getting team buy-in for morning huddles.