Familiarize yourself with the resources and tools offered by the U-M Work-Life Resource Center and invite a representative to speak to your team.

Facilitate a postmortem evaluation with your group on a failed project, and note how improvements can be made in the future.

Facilitate a group decision pertaining to an issue facing your group or team.

Explain the organizational structure of your unit to a new hire and how it fits within the university's framework.

Explain the mission and structure of your unit to a new hire, intern, or volunteer. Consider using an organizational chart of your unit when doing so.

Examine the cultural dynamics within your unit, and the pervasive types of conflict that arise from them.

Engage your team in "out of the box" creative thinking activities: Bring a bag of diverse household objects to a team meeting and have each person pick from the bag and brainstorm other uses for it.

Download the Liberating Structures app and select a problem solving or decision making tool to use with your group.

Encourage others in a meeting or gathering to reserve judgment until everyone who wants to speak, does so.

Engage in conversation with everyone. Ask a few questions and listen intently. Share something about yourself.