Include a meeting between your DEI lead and new hires during the onboarding process.

If you must check emails, designate one particular chunk of time each weekend to do so.

If you disagree, avoid personality attacks. Instead try something like, "I see your point, however I disagree. This is why...".

If someone vents to you, try to put yourself in their shoes to better understand their perspective. Agree that their situation sounds rough or frustrating.

If a group of people is interviewing a candidate, allow for 1-1 interviews instead of with the entire group.

Identify those who are successful at developing their direct reports. Learn what they do. Reflect how those methods could be carried across the unit(s).

Host a meeting or brown bag lunch for faculty and staff who make hiring decisions to stress the need to hire high caliber, diverse people who will fit within the organization's culture.

Guide family or friends in making a decision pertaining to an important, complex matter.

For a professional organization that you belong to, plan and run a panel discussion about talent management systems, talent pipelines and succession planning.

Focus on facts the next time you share your point of view.