Read How a Change of Perspective Can Improve Your Decisions and apply the three principles to a personal decision that you face.

Read The Book of Beautiful Questions and select several questions to use to guide a family member or friend through a problem solving or decision making process.

Read Crucial Confrontations and choose several new skills to apply for the next difficult conversation you have with a stakeholder. Practice with a peer or mentor ahead of time.

Read Avoid Decision Paralysis in the Face of Uncertainty and create a plan to navigate an existing uncertainty and ambiguity that you face. Reflect on the outcomes and how the process worked for you.

Oversee a new pilot project roll out to areas across the university.

Offer to research different data metrics that could work well in your line of work. Report your finding at a team meeting.

Offer to present a workshop about basic problem solving and mediation skills to a cross functional committee that you are involved with. 

Mediate a dispute between two people in a different unit than your own.

Manage the procurement of an important piece of equipment or service, and gather diverse input from stakeholders and others who will be impacted before analyzing the data and making the decision.

Leverage your internal networks and news outlets to gain a better understanding of organizational politics.