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

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.

If your organization is behind schedule or if a DEI initiative failed and needs to be reworked, take responsibility, make adjustments, and avoid blame.

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.