Free daily huddle template. Friday.app saves you and your team meetings by automating data collection, from questions to reminders, to notifications. Integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Daily Huddle Template (Free)

The daily huddle template helps you understand what everyone is working on every day.

Automate data collection, so you can spend less time asking people for updates and more time resolving blockers. See how:

The daily huddle is deeply integrated into workplace tools you already use, like Slack, Teams, and project management apps.

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Easily measure and track results over time. See completion rate, metrics, and automatic reports. Easily export to PDF or CSV.

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With Friday, you can customize every aspect of the daily huddle cadence (questions, reminders, notifications, prompts, etc).

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Meetings are best for collaboration, not information sharing. Friday makes it so you can walk into meetings and instantly jump into resolving blockers and more.

A daily huddle is another name for a daily scrum, a popular routine in agile teams. In highly collaborative environments, a daily huddle can serve as a helpful way to share information, keep people accountable, and proactively identify potential roadblocks that impede progress.

A daily huddle should be less than fifteen minutes. People should come prepared to a daily huddle ready to share what they are working on.

The daily huddle should happen every day because it speeds up the flow of information. If a team is all working on the same project, it's critical that each person have ambient awareness of what others are working on.

We strongly recommend that the daily huddle should be asynchronous. At Friday, we think meetings are best for collaboration, not general information sharing. It can be incredibly difficult to coordinate schedules for a group (especially distributed teams).

A fifteen minute meeting every day costs thousands of dollars per month, even for a small team!

If you share updates and information outside of a meeting, you can dramatically accelerate better conversations in less time. Who knows, maybe you don't need to have the meeting at all?

Daily huddles are effective work habits, but there are pitfalls you should avoid as well.

Avoid 1-1 conversation until after the huddle is over

Don't share a list of activities. Share work that is relevant to the rest of the group. Spend most of your time on blockers.

Hold a huddle at the same time. Create consistency

We recommend the following questions in your daily huddles:

What did you accomplish yesterday? (open-ended)

What do you aim to accomplish today? (open-ended)

As you roll out this communication process, you can add and remove questions based on feedback from the team. If you use the Friday template, you can customize the questions (emojis, open-ended responses, true/false, and more).

Friday routines are completely customizable. For example, you can change the following options:

Who should fill it out - choose people who need to give an update

Questions - pick from a variety of question types like sentiment, emojis, yes/no, open-ended, and more

Notifications - where should the status update responses be sent?

Prompts - ask people for updates over Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email.

The Friday workflow builder makes it easy to run virtually any communication workflow you can think of - daily huddles are one of many options available.

You see other examples on our templates page.

Yes! We integrate directly with Teams and Slack. Easily run your daily huddle with tools that you already use.

There are a few best practices to make the most of this information sharing event at work. We've shared our top tips below:

1.) Use these reports to eliminate information sharing meetings - meetings are great for collaboration, not basic information sharing. If you use the Friday huddle template, you won't need to have a huddle in real-time which can save you thousands of dollars every month.

2.) Roll up responses at employee level - after a few weeks of updates, rollup the responses per employee and see exactly what someone's contributions were over the past few weeks.

3.) Document output, not the inputs - encourage the team to document output vs. activity in these updates. This is a major lesson we learned from the book, High Output Management.

4.) Keep it simple - Don't reinvent the wheel. The more questions you ask, the more likely someone is to not complete the update. Limit the huddle to three questions (max)

5.) Map work to a higher-level goal - how did the day-to-day work contribute to a higher-level purpose, goal, or company strategy? Make sure to document why you are working on a particular task.

6.) Link to the work in 3rd party tools - if you use project management tools, make sure to link to the appropriate activity if someone wants to learn a bit more. We make this easy with our integrations.

You can get started running daily huddles for free. We are a business, so we can't give everything away, so premium features are $6/person per month and include:

Sending according to someone's timezone (great for remote teams)

Integrations (automatically pull the work in from third-party tools)

Easily run reports and track completion rate over time

Roll up responses to an employee profile

Run dozens of other communication templates.

We are confident that Friday can save you hours every week and help you understand what's going on at work.

It's up to you! We let you choose who can see the responses.

For example, you could select one of the following options:

Just You (we don't recommend this option for a daily huddle).

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