Empower direct reports to suggest ways to improve processes and give them credit if you decide to use their idea.

Download the Liberating Structures app and select a problem solving or decision making tool to use with your group.

Create a Google Drive folder for team members to streamline a project, share documents and collaborate.

Create a cross-level team to address a priority in your unit.

Create a checklist of items to go into your own sports or hobby bag and pin it on the bag or hang it by the door the night before you use it. Read down the list as you check your bag and grab missing items.

Create a checklist of items to go into your child's sports bag and pin it on the bag or hang it by the door the night before. Read down the list as they check their bag and grab missing items. Gradually empower them to take ownership of this process.

Contact a different group within the university that performs a process similar to one used in your unit. Ask to meet to observe and learn about that process. Present ideas for improving your own process based on your findings.

Consider the complexity of the situation when working to solve a problem: who will the decision impact, how, and what are possible consequences? Write them down.

Compare different process improvement techniques and choose one to try on a small project.

Choose and ask questions from The Book of Beautiful Questions to seek the root cause of a problem.