Create a clear and comprehensive vision statement pertaining to a change effort in your unit. Analyze the methods used by a speaker you find inspirational and motivational and apply several of those methods to your message.

Craft concise messages pertaining to a change initiative in your unit.

Convey an innovative idea in a team meeting or to your supervisor.

Contact dissatisfied clients directly. Listen attentively and paraphrase the client's responses back to them for clarification. Offer solutions or areas that you will address with your team.

Contact a different group within the university that performs a process similar to one used in your unit. Ask to meet to observe and learn about that process. Present ideas for improving your own process based on your findings.

Consider three unexpected changes, write down opportunities they created to improve or restructure a process.

Consider the complexity of the situation when working to solve a problem: who will the decision impact, how, and what are possible consequences? Write them down.

Consider situations when you do not fully understand, yet feel reluctant to speak up. Reflect on the reasons why.

Consider and consult with people with disabilities when developing job postings, programs, services and/or policies.

Consider an upcoming decision your team will address. Select an appropriate team decision making process and try it. Afterward, assess how well that process worked.