Schedule career conversations with your manager: stretch assignments, events or meetings you could attend with them, suggestions about formal training.

Run for a leadership position in a professional organization.

Review the structure of a professional or community organization in which you hold a leadership role. Seek to resolve ambiguities (e.g., learning expectations, goals) and make predictions for future needs.

Research opportunities for positive change and present to stakeholders.

Research and present a trend that leadership is interested in learning about.

Request to write an article for your unit's magazine or newsletter.

Request to manage part of an unpopular endeavor.

Request feedback from people with different perspectives than you about a product that you are submitting or a service that you provide.

Repeat the directions that someone gives you, and ask if you heard correctly.

Remind yourself not to take your next setback or challenge personally.