Identify and create partnerships with local and regional entities.

Identify an unrecognized opportunity and ask your supervisor if you can work on it (e.g., onboarding guide for your group if job retention is an issue, hiring a new employee, finding better office coffee at a lower cost).

Identify an opportunity to improve workflow and team engagement and present it to your team.

Identify an opportunity for your group or within a project and share it with your team.

Identify an individual to mentor. Clearly communicate the future needs of the organization and create a mentoring plan with them.

Identify a skill or process that you need to learn and is too challenging to master on your own. Request a peer coach to help you master that competency.

Identify a process that could use improving and ask your supervisor if you can research ways to do that.

Identify a particular areas that you would like to learn about. Create a survey and send it to stakeholders in that area.

Identify a leader who will support your efforts implementing a change initiative and ask them to back you up.

Host a meeting or brown bag lunch for faculty and staff who make hiring decisions to stress the need to hire high caliber, diverse people who will fit within the organization's culture.