How I started giving standups in English with zero anxiety

The 60-second standup formula

For the first month at my new job, I'd rehearse the entire standup in the shower. Now I follow a tiny three-part script and I'm done in under a minute.

1. Yesterday: what I shipped or pushed.
2. Today: what I'm about to pick up.
3. Blockers: who I need help from.

My go-to templates

"Yesterday I finished the auth refactor and started load-testing the new endpoint."

"Today I'll pair with Mai on the rate limiter."

"I'm blocked on access to the staging database."

I keep these in a sticky note above my monitor. After two weeks I didn't need it anymore.

Phrases I stole from senior engineers

• "Quick context for the group…"
• "I'll take that one offline."
• "Nothing blocking, all green my side."

Try one of these tomorrow. You'll sound calmer than you actually are — that's half the battle.