--- title: Facilitate You! - Use your facilitating skills to lead... description: Agile facilitation techniques can be adapted for personal self-leadership by treating yourself as a team of one. The approach involves splitting yourself into... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/facilitate-you---use-your-facilitating-skills-to-lead-yourself---martin-mazur---ndc-copenhagen-2025-2yox1gtjk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Facilitate You! - Use your facilitating skills to lead yourself - Martin Mazur - NDC Copenhagen 2025 | daily.dev og:description: Agile facilitation techniques can be adapted for personal self-leadership by treating yourself as a team of one. The approach involves splitting yourself into... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/facilitate-you---use-your-facilitating-skills-to-lead-yourself---martin-mazur---ndc-copenhagen-2025-2yox1gtjk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2YOx1Gtjk.png og:image:alt: Facilitate You! - Use your facilitating skills to lead yourself - Martin Mazur - NDC Copenhagen 2025 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Facilitate You! - Use your facilitating skills to lead yourself - Martin Mazur - NDC Copenhagen 2025 **[NDC Conferences](https://daily.dev/sources/ndc)** · 52 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Agile facilitation techniques can be adapted for personal self-leadership by treating yourself as a team of one. The approach involves splitting yourself into facilitator (past you) and participant (present you) roles to design structured personal workshops. Core practices include daily check-ins, weekly planning sessions, and personal retrospectives using familiar agile frameworks. Key principles: write ridiculously clear instructions, use timers, follow your own process, and maintain a parking lot for distractions. For complex challenges like prioritization, use tournament-style comparisons instead of dot voting. The goal is to extend the same care and structure you give teams to yourself, avoiding productivity theater and tool-switching procrastination. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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