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.

Raise the profile of a high performing person you know by introducing them to people affiliated with organizations outside of the university.

Provide frequent regular feedback to direct reports. Start with positive comments pertaining to their performance or strengths before issuing constructive comments. Use specific examples.

Present highlights of your new on-boarding program with colleagues throughout the university.

Organize or participate in a brown bag lunch whereby participants take turns sharing an area of interest or expertise that they have.

Organize a surprise party for a friend and delegate particular decisions to other close friends helping you.

Organize a social event with another group or unit to share how your units' functions overlap and compliment each other.