Research and learn how other units established pipelines of viable leaders and professionals.

Read How to Create a Talent Management Process and reflect on the system that is currently in place. Identify areas of opportunity, collaborate with members of your unit to create and implement an action plan.

Plan a workshop for leaders of a team about talent management. Collaborate or consult with the HR Community of Practice for subject area expertise.

Maintain a list of potential leaders that you hear about from other colleagues, staff, friends.

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).

For a professional organization that you belong to, plan and run a panel discussion about talent management systems, talent pipelines and succession planning.

Create a unit-wide succession plan based on best practices utilized by leaders across the university.

Consult with a mentor about building talent management and pipelines, and request referrals to talk to.