Use icebreakers at your next three team meetings. Write down which worked well to engage your team.

Use visual scorecards (e.g., dashboards or thermometers) to show progress toward realizing a vision or goals.

Participate on a U-M volunteer community service project (e.g., Habitat for Humanity, United Way, Food Gatherers project).

Organize a gathering for people from an organization you volunteer with.

Organize a game night with family and friends. With them, develop community guidelines before playing (e.g., putting away all cell phones).

Open a team meeting with a positively framed icebreaker question.

Listen to the Use Learning to Engage Your Team HBR podcast and apply findings to the work you perform with a community organization.

Highlight stories of interesting things that your team has accomplished to other colleagues in your field at U-M.

Begin your next team meeting by sharing a positive story, feedback or magical moment at work since the last team meeting. If a team member has a positive story or moment, encourage them to share it.

Attend a U-M Center for Positive Organizations Positive Links Speaker Series talk.