Offer frequent, constructive feedback and positive reinforcement to your colleagues across campus.

Meet with your DEI lead to learn about your unit's plan, and how progress is measured (e.g., an annual employment climate survey). Seek ways that you can support the initiatives.

Learn about and implement two to three basic ADA standards of electronic accessibility across your organization.

Manage a change project within your office. Create clear messaging, processes and timelines so that staff understand why it is occurring and how it will be implemented.

Invite colleagues to share aspects of their job that motivates them and periodically remind them of those aspects.

Identify your employees' talents and invest time and effort into their growth via coaching and stretch tasks and assignments.

Inquire with peers across the university about technologies that they utilize to optimize work outcomes. Try out a few.

Initiate a group to study future technology innovations that may benefit your organization over the long term.

If your organization is behind schedule or if a DEI initiative failed and needs to be reworked, take responsibility, make adjustments, and avoid blame.

Identify where a task or assignment you perform fits in to the workflow process and where bottlenecks could occur.