Enlist a team of family and friends to help you with a specific home improvement project.

Engage in conversation with everyone. Ask a few questions and listen intently. Share something about yourself.

Encourage faculty or staff to present new knowledge that they learned in a class, via a stretch assignment, or in a coaching session with their team of colleagues.

Encourage colleagues whom you work with on U-M committees to take on a challenging assignment within that role. Provide supportive feedback and coaching if you have expertise in that area.

Encourage collaboration. Clearly define objectives and goals to your team and facilitate brainstorming and discussion to meet those goals. Offer support.

Encourage and promote the use of the U-M Provost holiday calendar when scheduling meeting and events.

Encourage a quiet and reserved colleague to express themselves in a meeting or class.

Download the Harvard Business Review Ideacast podcast series and listen to the Feb. 5, 2016 edition, "How to Give Constructive Feedback". Reflect on two ways that you can improve your feedback and implement a strategy to do so.

Download and listen to the Managers Tool podcast episodes relating to onboarding.

Develop stretch assignments for direct reports who demonstrate willingness to grow in their careers.