About Huddles
From the Office of Patient Experience
A huddle is an opportunity to interact with your staff, preferably on a daily basis; it can help deepen your connection, influence, and guide your staff members. A huddle can be used as an opportunity to provide clarity of purpose, inspire, create a sense of urgency, and shape the course of events. Most importantly the Go Blue Huddle provides an opportunity to recognize someone during the huddle.
Huddles should be kept brief and should last 5-7 minutes. Some teams choose to extend their discussions if time allows. Huddles can be led by anyone. In fact, we recommend encouraging staff to rotate the responsibility as it can help build leadership and engagement across the team. Include as many team members as possible during the huddle. Consider using conference calls to include teammates who are off site.
Benefits of Huddles
- Opportunity to get to know your colleagues
- Improve teamwork and communication
- Acknowledgement of staff and efforts
- Safe venue for staff to voice issues or concerns in an open, respectable manner
You may want to focus consider focusing on the following as we return to work:
- Wellness and well-being
- Culture
- Team Building