Research best practices across your campus pertaining to services, processes, and policies that your group delivers. Make a proposal to update your group's practices if you see areas for improvement.

Research and learn how other units established pipelines of viable leaders and professionals.

Request to work on a university project that is not meeting goals.

Request to work on a task force or initiative for a separate U-M affiliate which will expose you to a different processes and metrics.

Request to join a U-M recruitment committee that is filling a position in an identical or similar unit at a different U-M facility or campus.

Request and encourage feedback from diverse people within a U-M task force or committee that you are involved in.

Represent your department on a committee to review organizational priorities.

Regularly request or propose hypothetical situations to encourage and foster diverse viewpoints and feedback.

Reflect on your values and write them down. Then, consider how your personal values align with the values and mission of a U-M initiative, task force or other workgroup.

Reflect on how you approach decision making when uncertainty and ambiguity are present. Read The Book of Beautiful Questions and design a strategy and template of questions to use.