We build trusting relationships with team members through respectful and thoughtful interactions and demonstrate intercultural responsiveness
Leverage the strengths of a direct report in a different capacity by assigning them to a role that is unfamiliar to them.
Lead an underperforming working or subcommittee group.
Lead an orchestra, band or singing group.
Invite someone who did not speak up during a discussion to share their thoughts with you afterward. Listen, make eye contact, and reflect on their perspective before commenting.
Invite peers to lunch to share success stories about work life balance in their units as well as areas for opportunities.
Invite new employees to accompany you to a DEI event and to discuss it afterward.
Invite colleagues to a conversation pertaining to hiring practices that demonstrate and promote behaviors found in the Michigan Expectations Model.
Invite an HR representative to speak at a lunch for hiring managers to reivew the inclusing hiring practices. Assign the group to read Avoiding Discrimination in Job Postings beforehand.
Introduce U-M colleagues and other stakeholders to one another.
Introduce Liberating Structures tools to a work team or event planning team.
