Read How to Engage Employees Through Your Company Vision Statement and tie the mission with team and individual goals.

Read Crucial Confrontations and choose several new skills to apply for the next difficult conversation you have with a stakeholder. Practice with a peer or mentor ahead of time.

Read The Coaching Habit or listen to the summary of The Coaching Habit and incorporate the strategies into your daily practice. For one week, maintain a journal recording a daily instance when you used a Coaching Habit question and the outcome.

Read Avoid Decision Paralysis in the Face of Uncertainty and create a plan to navigate an existing uncertainty and ambiguity that you face. Reflect on the outcomes and how the process worked for you.

Reach out to other units to collaborate on projects and initiatives with your unit.

Pull together a diverse team to plan for a change in processes. Be sure to include a diverse group of team members to create a new process and contingency plans.

Participate on a U-M volunteer community service project (e.g., Habitat for Humanity, United Way, Food Gatherers project).

Participate in a mentoring group.

Oversee a new pilot project roll out to areas across the university.

Organize a retreat for a nonprofit you are involved in.