What makes a daily huddle successful?  

Intention of a daily huddle is to quickly make the team aware of issues either seen yesterday needing attention, and anticipating such issues today, identifying other outlier events or variations impacting your team/department, and brief review of the day (e.g. staff changes, coverage, special proce...

I just noticed this was posted earlier this year. My clinic, which is a University of Chicago Medicine network site with ~2.5 physician FTEs, 2 nurses, 8 therapists, and 2 linear accelerators treating approximately 30 to 40 patients per day, has had a daily huddle since day one of operations, 10 yea...

Various institutions, off the top of my head, OHSU and Northwell Health (Northwell presented their experience at ASTRO 2017), have implemented a morning daily huddle to prepare their department for the day ahead. Our department instituted a daily morning huddle just prior to the pandemic (totally se...

This is a really good question. We shouldn't be halting productivity for a huddle (which can represent significant total man hours when you are including dozens of people for even 15 minutes) unless we are sure it's producing something of value. I'm not really sure the best way to make these success...

The culture and size of a department ultimately determines how a daily huddle is received. Nevertheless, during the COVID pandemic, I cannot think of a better reason to have a daily huddle, and am actually surprised by the uncertainty expressed regarding the value of the daily huddle. For a small f...