Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

How to run engaging and productive stand-up meetings every time

How many hours should you be standing at work per day? Experts recommend standing anywhere from two to four hours while at work. A daily stand-up meeting will only net you around 15 minutes of that time, but it has loads of other benefits. If you’re new to stand-up meetings or looking to freshen things up, take a look at this free Miroverse template and eyeball the following tips to hack into a better (or new) stand-up meeting experience, whether in the office or remote.

5 insights from leaders transitioning teams back to the office

For many people, the shift to working from home meant finding new ways to work. In person meetings morphed into videoconferences. Events went virtual. And remote teams found new avenues to communicate, collaborate, support each other — and get all the work done, too. With pandemic conditions now improving in most of the world, many companies are exploring the best ways to transition workers from home back to the office.

How Sharpist is using Miro to scale employee well-being

Sharpist is on a mission to create a healthier, more self-aware global workforce. CEO and Co-Founder, Hendrik Schriefer, describes Sharpist as “the first platform of its kind bringing your employees a personalized and effective way to learn and grow.” With a network of over 500 internationally certified business coaches, Sharpist provides digital coaching in the form of video, microlearning, and personalized e-learning modules from MIT and other world-renowned experts.

How to disrupt endless meetings and turn ideas into action

In this panel discussion, learn about three inspiring real-world workshops from employees at Wily, a design sprint agency, and students and staff from Winthrop University. Watch as they share best practices and lessons learned on redesigning experiences for the post-Covid environment and organizational issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

How Lake | Flato uses Miro to create inclusive architecture

As the top-ranked architecture firm in the United States, Lake | Flato knows there’s more to great buildings than crisp lines and slick designs. Sustainability, collaboration, and inclusion are at the heart of LF’s design philosophy, and they strive to make every project fit organically into its place — which includes the nature and culture around it.

How to put the fun in functional meetings

Are you looking to add some pizzazz to those oh-so-dull meetings? Miro’s Head of Workshop Design, Shipra Kayan, is here to help. Before coming to Miro, she lent her expertise to companies like Upwork, Apple, and Microsoft — and has experience running workshops for two decades. Shipra brings her passion for running engaging meetings to this VMUG and shares the tips you need to create better solutions as a team, no matter where your team is.

A mission to empower 1 million startups

“We’re digitally re-creating our accelerator program to offer an advanced product suite designed to accelerate more startups. Miro is an indispensable part of our vision.” That’s how Giovanni Vaccari, Head of Product at Startupbootcamp, describes their mission to democratize accelerator programs on a global scale. It’s no secret that startup accelerators are highly competitive, and for good reason.

10 out of the box ways you use Miro

In celebration of Miro turning 10 this week we wanted to highlight 10 out of the box ways you’ve used Miro. We love hearing the ways Miro has helped you create and collaborate with your team but more and more we’re seeing Miro used for fun personal projects. From writing a novel to playing Dungeons and Dragons, the Miro community continues to surprise us and we can’t wait to see the unique use cases you discover next.

Miro for Microsoft-powered software development teams

Whether solving major infrastructure issues or resolving a bug, developers rely on visualization of complex architectures to get the job done. It’s critical to getting a shared understanding so that all the moving pieces work as one cohesive unit. Code editing environments like Visual Studio help Microsoft’s network of millions of developers navigate code, debug, test, and complete code.