Reflect on ways that your team members strengths can be leveraged for improved team performance and make changes accordingly.

Reflect on and assess your strengths.

Reflect on and assess your strengths and type or write them into columns. Consider the following areas: technical skills, social competencies, professionalism, time management, organization, follow through, proactive or reactive. Share your list or table with your supervisor and ask for feedback.

Reflect how everyone on your team matters and how you can support them to develop. Use their Michigan Expectations Model Self Assessment results and Individual Development Plan (IDP) as starting points.

Reflect on and identify the strengths, efforts and contributions of your direct team members to effectively delegate work.

Recruit several people to read The Coaching Habit with you and meet to discuss it, specifically what you have gleaned about addressing the weaknesses of others.

Recruit a team of people for a game, contest or race.

Recruit a team for a Trivia Night or a scavenger hunt team.

Read your unit's DEI plan and meet with your DEI lead to better understand priorities and to communicate those priorities throughout your unit.

Read What Good Feedback Looks Like. Apply one of the tips the next time that you are giving a friend or family member feedback and reflect on their reaction.