If you are in charge of creating goals and action plans, stick to them or admit to others if you find yourself unable to follow through. Take actions to mitigate.

If someone vents to you, try to put yourself in their shoes to better understand their perspective. Agree that their situation sounds rough or frustrating.

If a group of people is interviewing a candidate, allow for 1-1 interviews instead of with the entire group.

Identify your unit's core values and reflect how you demonstrated them the last three times you were involved in making a decision either alone or as part of a group.

Identify your employees' talents and invest time and effort into their growth via coaching and stretch tasks and assignments.

Identify where a task or assignment you perform fits in to the workflow process and where bottlenecks could occur.

Identify two people to shadow one another for half of a day and then trade tasks and assignments for a specific amount of time. Communicate openly with both participants about your intentions to use this opportunity to leverage their talents and foster their growth within the organization.

Identify those who are successful at developing their direct reports. Learn what they do. Reflect how those methods could be carried across the unit(s).

Identify someone you work with who makes others feel valued, respected and included. Reflect on their behaviors and identify two to adapt to your daily practice.

Identify positive behaviors that your unit has established as norms (e.g., respectful interactions, how to disagree).