Leverage talent across departments to fill in gaps, innovate, and optimize everyone's contributions while minimizing waste.

Learn to apply frameworks and S.M.A.R.T. tools for understanding and making everyday financial decisions. Demonstrate your understanding to your direct reports.

Learn problem solving skills (e.g., ask more open ended questions, break down a problem into small components and analyze).

Learn about and implement two to three basic ADA standards of electronic accessibility across your organization.

Join the leadership of an organization with many reporting arms (e.g., house of worship, national professional organization).

Join a task force or group that actively seeks to improve the experiences of the stakeholders served.

Invite the most skeptical member of your peer group to partner with you on a change project. Learn the basis of their resistance and help them to understand the importance of the endeavor.

Invite members of a U-M group you are involved with to share characteristics of their favorite supervisors. Analyze how those supervisors demonstrated and coached those characteristics.

Invite input from stakeholders who will be directly impacted by a decision that needs to be made. Their diverse perspectives may lead to an innovative resolution.

Invite colleagues to share aspects of their job that motivates them and periodically remind them of those aspects.