Ask your mentor about their successful strategies to facilitate conflict resolution and strengthen relationships.

Ask you supervisor about the reasoning behind a decision to assign you a particular assignment.

Ask two to three people, or your team, for their input on a decision you are making: request that they take different angles with their perspectives. Maintain confidences.

Ask to review the strategic plan of an organization with which you volunteer.

Ask to represent your unit in a university initiative.

Ask to participate on a hiring committee for your group.

Advertise job postings throughout your internal and external networks and those of the university. 

Ask to manage a group of resistant people with low morale.

Ask to join of a task force or networking group that's addressing a pressing problem.

Ask to join a cross-functional task force where you interact with people from different backgrounds and areas of the university.