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.

Identify bottlenecks that you or your team faces and present them to your supervisor or team to work out.

Identify a U-M leader you admire and schedule a meeting to learn what they find most useful and effective for meeting team goals and supporting others to track goals.

Identify a leader who will support your efforts implementing a change initiative and ask them to back you up.