Define the purpose of a community meeting you will be leading. Select and use a Liberating Structure tool that addresses your objective and encourages inclusion and respect.

Create a speakers group to promote and practice the creation of effective, impactful narratives pertaining to your unit, and the organization's mission or vision.

Create a hiring guide for your group. Include questions that can be used during an interview (e.g., "What do you do to ensure that all members of your team feel included and feel their opinions are valued?").

Defend a recent decision that you made by aligning your unit's values to the final decision or the decision making process that was utilized.

Cultivate curiosity within your team whereby questions are asked, and ideas are encouraged and respected by all team members.

Create your own group of mentors who will meet with you to offer advice about your professional goals, aspirations, and challenges.

Create focus groups to learn about areas of service, processes or systems that need improvement and how to see input into addressing those needs.

Create cross functional teams for a U-M initiative that you are working on.

Create and implement a buddy system for new hires to facilitate acculturation to the group.

Create and follow through with conversation guidelines for your team (e.g., everyone has a responsibility to share in discussions, challenge the idea and not the person, speak from experience, listen respectfully).