Share responsibilities on a committee or event with a developing leader.

Schedule regular 1-1 meetings with your direct reports to understand their needs and support their growth. Provide or recommend opportunities for growth.

Present your developing leaders with scenarios of complex situations that they could address in their jobs and ask them to dissect the scenarios into manageable pieces.

Offer to share duties with a rising leader in a professional or community organization in which you hold a leadership role.

Invite a colleague from a university committee or task force to cosponsor an event with you.

Identify a person to succeed you in the leadership of an organization. Mentor and coach them, and share responsibilities and resources as they develop into the role.

Demonstrate how you performed a function unique to your position to a developing leader without prior experience in this area. Delegate that responsibility, if possible.

Create a mentoring or coaching program that will support the needs of staff and faculty.