Explore the U-M ITS website for more productive and engaging ways to accomplish an existing task and present to your team.

For your next important conversation, write bullet points beforehand highlighting the main points that you wish to convey. Practice expressing your points with a colleague and solicit feedback.

Follow through on your commitments to yourself, your team, and other stakeholders who are impacted by your work.

Follow through on tasks assigned to you that are associated with a change.

Follow through on an act that you promised someone (e.g., giving a coworker a ride to pick up their vehicle at the mechanic).

Follow a process from start to finish and make recommendations on ways to improve it.

Follow a process commonly found in your office from beginning to end and analyze it to identify areas for improvement. Present your findings to your supervisor or the person who oversees that process.

Focus on points of agreement to sift out the finer points of the conflict.

Find something positive and noteworthy in everyone's performance and share it with them.

Find and assign specialized leadership assignments for reports (e.g., managing a large project, making a presentation on behalf of the university, sitting on a high-level hire).