Ask your supervisor if you can coach/mentor a new employee or intern in your area of expertise. Start by assessing their strengths and gaps in performance.

Ask your supervisor for a checklist of the policies, systems and processes that you are required to know for your job.

Ask your supervisor and other colleagues in your field for recommendations for regional or national organizations to get involved with.

Ask you supervisor about the reasoning behind a decision to assign you a particular assignment.

Ask two to three people, or your team, for their input on a decision you are making: request that they take different angles with their perspectives. Maintain confidences.

Ask to represent your unit in a university initiative.

Advertise job postings throughout your internal and external networks and those of the university. 

Ask to manage a group of resistant people with low morale.

Ask for the other person's perspective if they dropped the ball on something. Actively listen, reflect, and paraphrase their response before commenting.

Ask someone who did not speak up in a meeting to share their thoughts with you afterward. Listen, make eye contact, reflect on their perspective before commenting.