Read The Coaching Habit or listen to the summary of The Coaching Habit and incorporate the strategies into your daily practice. For one week, maintain a journal recording a daily instance when you used a Coaching Habit question and the outcome.

Participate in a mentoring group.

Offer to coach a colleague in another unit in a skill that they wish to develop for their job.

Meet with a direct report to go over their Development Journey self assessment and to coach them through the Individual Development Plan (IDP).

Invite members of a U-M group you are involved with to share characteristics of their favorite supervisors. Analyze how those supervisors demonstrated and coached those characteristics.

Coach a group of new leaders and share tips that you have learned through your experiences.