Find something positive and noteworthy in everyone's performance and share it with them.

Find and assign specialized leadership assignments for reports (e.g., managing a large project, making a presentation on behalf of the university, sitting on a high-level hire).

Facilitate an onboarding strategic plan with organization where you volunteer that has high turnover.

Facilitate a professional development program for an organization that you volunteer with.

Encourage your mentee to attend an upcoming DEI event with you. Invite other colleagues to join you with their mentees and to discuss the program afterward.

Encourage faculty or staff to present new knowledge that they learned in a class, via a stretch assignment, or in a coaching session with their team of colleagues.

Encourage colleagues whom you work with on U-M committees to take on a challenging assignment within that role. Provide supportive feedback and coaching if you have expertise in that area.

Encourage collaboration. Clearly define objectives and goals to your team and facilitate brainstorming and discussion to meet those goals. Offer support.

Download the Harvard Business Review Ideacast podcast series and listen to the Feb. 5, 2016 edition, "How to Give Constructive Feedback". Reflect on two ways that you can improve your feedback and implement a strategy to do so.

Download and listen to the Managers Tool podcast episodes relating to onboarding.