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.

Determine ways to leverage strengths of some of your employees with the weaknesses of others.

Demonstrate bystander intervention techniques when the situation warrants.

Delegate a decision to a direct report in which all of the facts or data are not present. Offer your support to facilitate their growth in this area if they seek it.

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

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