Inquire with peers across the university about technologies that they utilize to optimize work outcomes. Try out a few.

Initiate a group to study future technology innovations that may benefit your organization over the long term.

In your next decision making session with colleagues, contribute a viewpoint that is very different from those of others as a means to foster innovative thinking.

Identify your unit's core values and reflect how you demonstrated them the last three times you were involved in making a decision either alone or as part of a group.

Identify your employees' talents and invest time and effort into their growth via coaching and stretch tasks and assignments.

Identify your assumptions and biases before offering suggestions in a problem solving session.

Identify where a task or assignment you perform fits in to the workflow process and where bottlenecks could occur.

Identify something you do that is very inefficient (e.g., filing tax-related materials throughout the year). Ask people you know to be organized what they do and then try one of the processes.

Identify someone you regularly interrupt. The next time you converse with them, hold your comments until they have finished. Should you find yourself interrupting, apologize and ask them to continue.

Identify one particular inefficient system or waster at home and determine a way to mitigate it.