With your team, create guidelines for team meetings and communication based on their preferences.

With your team, create community guidelines for team meetings.

When a friend offers a different opinion, pause to reflect on what they said, and factor their insights into your decision or response before responding.

Volunteer to find a way to align a process across business units.

Volunteer on the leadership of a professional or community organization that is experiencing internal crisis.

Volunteer in a leadership capacity with a U-M student organization.

Visit different teams within your unit to learn about work flow and skills and experiences that are required.

Use visual scorecards (e.g., dashboards or thermometers) to show progress toward realizing a vision or goals.

Treat everyone with the same courtesy as they would want.

The next time you attend a U-M event or meeting outside of your role, sit next to someone you do not know, introduce yourself, and get to know them.