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New Templates in Miroverse: June 2026

In June 2026, our community published 194 new templates to Miroverse. Creators leaned into big moments and everyday workflows alike — from World Cup-themed sweepstakes and retros to AI adoption playbooks, workshop briefing tools, and agile health checks. Miro Flows showed up throughout the month, powering everything from workshop briefing summarization to career-in-innovation workshops. Below, you’ll find the top templates and creators from June 2026 — plus an AI workflow spotlight.

Best Microsoft Copilot Alternatives for IT and HR Teams in 2026

Ask most IT and HR leaders why IT and HR need different AI tools than Copilot, and the answer comes down to how a request actually ends. IT requests resolve in an action. HR requests resolve in a lookup or a handoff. Copilot, built as a single AI layer inside Microsoft 365, treats both as the same kind of task — a question to answer — and that's where it starts to fall short for support teams specifically.

What Is the Value of Consulting When Everyone Can Build?

Anyone can spin up a working prototype in an afternoon now. So what's a consultant actually for? In this session of Reframe, Miro's webinar series for consultants and agencies rethinking client work in the age of AI, Rory Keddie makes the case that consulting's value hasn't disappeared — it's moved. From scarcity to abundance, from delivering to co-creating, from billing hours to owning outcomes.

Tracking deliverables in Jira as a Product Manager | How I Atlassian

Tired of being your team's "status bot"? In this video, a Product Manager shares how she stopped chasing updates over DMs and started using Jira to keep her team aligned, so she can focus on what actually matters. Here's what you'll learn: How to centralize launch tasks in Jira as work items How to organize your backlog and pull priorities into sprints How to use work item comments so your team self-reports progress.

From Idea to Evidence: Validating Innovation at AI Speed

Most teams can generate ideas all day. The hard part is knowing which ones are actually worth building. In this session of Reframe, Miro's webinar series for consultants and agencies rethinking client work in the age of AI, Todd Reily (Founder, RightThing.io) shows what AI-native innovation actually looks like in practice — live, on a Miro board, working through a real product case study from idea to validated evidence.

Slack School | Get Started with the Slack CLI

Building custom automations in Slack might sound like a whole to-do, but it's actually a breeze. In this episode, we’ll demystify your developer environment and walk you through your new toolkit: VS Code, Homebrew, Slack and Salesforce CLIs. You'll leave with a perfectly prepped workspace and the confidence to start launching code like a pro. Class dismissed!

Capturing feedback in Jira as a Designer | How I Atlassian

Tired of digging through Figma comments, Slack threads, and random meeting notes just to find feedback? In this video, a Designer shares how he stopped sorting through scattered feedback and started using Jira to centralize it all, so he can get back to actually designing. Here's what you'll learn: How to create a work item with all your design details in one place How to share context and @mention reviewers with clear questions How to watch work items so feedback comes straight to you.

42% of Organizations Use WhatsApp for Work and Most Don't See the Risk

Ask anyone why they use WhatsApp for work and the answer is almost always the same: everyone's already on it. That's true. WhatsApp has over two billion users worldwide. It's fast, familiar, and free. When you need to reach an external partner quickly, or coordinate with a colleague outside your usual tools, it's the path of least resistance.

Best Encrypted Communication Tools for Enterprises | Secure Business Chat

Encrypted communication tools are secure messaging and collaboration platforms that use encryption to protect business conversations, voice calls, video meetings, and file sharing from unauthorized access. They help organizations safeguard sensitive data while enabling secure collaboration across teams and devices. As cyber threats, remote work, and data privacy regulations continue to grow, secure business communication has become essential for organizations of every size.

Countries With the Best Work-Life Balance in 2026: The Statistics Behind the Good Life

There is a quiet revolution happening at kitchen tables, in coffee shops, on hiking trails in the middle of the week, and in apartments overlooking the streets of Lisbon, Wellington, and Copenhagen. It doesn’t have a slogan because it doesn’t need one. Its message is simple: life is happening now, and more people are no longer willing to postpone it for a career that may never return the sacrifice. For decades, success followed a familiar script.