Regularly meet with reports and promote opportunities for them to participate in meetings and unit conferences or events.

Reflect on your biases. What are they and how could they impact your interactions with others? Develop a goal pertaining to mitigating one bias. Check your progress weekly.

Reflect on and assess your strengths.

Reflect on and assess your strengths and type or write them into columns. Consider the following areas: technical skills, social competencies, professionalism, time management, organization, follow through, proactive or reactive. Share your list or table with your supervisor and ask for feedback.

Reflect how everyone on your team matters and how you can support them to develop. Use their Michigan Expectations Model Self Assessment results and Individual Development Plan (IDP) as starting points.

Recruit several people to read The Coaching Habit with you and meet to discuss it, specifically what you have gleaned about addressing the weaknesses of others.

Read your unit's DEI plan and meet with your DEI lead to better understand priorities and to communicate those priorities throughout your unit.

Read What Good Feedback Looks Like. Apply one of the tips the next time that you are giving a friend or family member feedback and reflect on their reaction.

Read the Coaching Habit and integrate the questions into your daily practice.

Raise the profile of a rising leader by inviting them to participate on a panel or committee.