Use icebreakers at your next three team meetings. Write down which worked well to engage your team.

Write a weekly email to your entire staff that highlights the ways in which the people, resources, programs, and/or projects execute your unit's and the university's mission.

Write a proposal for a new policy and sell it to senior leadership.

Work with your team to create SMART goals.

Work with peer colleagues and direct reports to implement a new program or service to meet established goals.

With your team, create guidelines for team meetings and communication based on their preferences.

With your team, create community guidelines for team meetings.

With your team, craft a compelling narrative supporting the need for change and how it will positively affect the organization. Pilot the message with a few people and request feedback.

With your project team, perform a post mortem on a project that didn't go as planned. Reflect on the positive and negative outcomes and brainstorm ways that negative outcomes could be avoided in the future.

With your direct supervisor, create three goals and action plans to achieve them. Include stretch assignments.