Read How to Create a Talent Management Process and reflect on the system that is currently in place. Identify areas of opportunity, collaborate with members of your unit to create and implement an action plan.

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 The Coaching Habit or listen to the summary of The Coaching Habit and incorporate the strategies into your daily practice. For one week, maintain a journal recording a daily instance when you used a Coaching Habit question and the outcome.

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.

Reach out to others if you are stuck on a task or decision.

Reach out to other units to collaborate on projects and initiatives with your unit.

Pull together a diverse team to plan for a change in processes. Be sure to include a diverse group of team members to create a new process and contingency plans.

Provide your mentor with the how and the why behind President Schlissel's University DEI Initiatives, including Campus Climate: Sexual Misconduct.

Provide frequent, positive and constructive communications to your team so that everyone remains focused on fulfilling the change implementation plan.

Provide frequent regular feedback to direct reports. Start with positive comments pertaining to their performance or strengths before issuing constructive comments. Use specific examples.