Most of us strive to be better leaders. But with so many facets to good leadership, it can sometimes feel like an overwhelming endeavor.

So today, we’ll walk through a few manageable steps you can take to improve your leadership style.

Remember to ask yourself if that meeting can be an email

Earlier this month, Shopify announced that it was dramatically reducing the number of hours that staff spend in meetings. For example, the company is eliminating all recurring meetings that involve more than two people.

This move caught the eye of clinical professor Harry Kraemer, who has long been an advocate for being deliberate about how you spend your time.

“It often happens that many of the things we do—especially business meetings—are done without a clear purpose or without a defined timeframe,” Kraemer writes in a recent blog post.

Kraemer, who was CEO of Baxter International, said he made a point in that role never to have a meeting just for the sake of having a meeting.

Of course, this is easier said than done. Indeed, how often have you scheduled a recurring meeting as a way to hold yourself accountable for making progress on a project? Or to simply share routine information?

It’s time to reassess those routines, Kraemer says. “This can almost always be done more efficiently by sending materials out ahead of time and limiting the actual meeting time to discuss any concerns or opportunities and focus on making decisions,” he writes.

Why not use the new year as a chance to audit your calendar and decide what really needs to be on there?

You can read the full blog post here.

Pick up a book!

It’s one thing to strive to get better at something concrete, like data analysis. But it is trickier to figure out how to boost your interpersonal skills, which are a crucial component of leadership.

Clinical professor Brooke Vuckovic likes to use fiction to this end. She even teaches a class at Kellogg that helps students develop their moral leadership through a close analysis of literature.

“Our best leaders are looking for ways to develop themselves, and fiction represents an often underused and incredibly powerful, low-cost, ongoing, pleasurable way to develop ourselves—if read correctly,” she told CNBC.

Vuckovic shared some tips for how people can use literature to improve their leadership skills.

For starters, when you’re reading a new book, pause after the first chapter and try to describe the main characters. In particular, try to articulate what motivates them and what forces are impacting them.

Practicing this can help you develop your empathy and interpersonal awareness as a leader, she says.

You can read the full interview with Vuckovic here.

Help your team manage their stress

I don’t have the answers for you on this one yet. You’ll have to attend clinical professor Carter Cast’s webinar on the topic on Friday. (And I promise I’ll recap the highlights in a future email.)

Cast will offer advice on how managers can help their teams (and themselves) be intentional about prioritizing the right activities, with the goal of reducing stress and anxiety. He’ll offer strategies that leaders can use to help employees maintain good balance in their lives and their work.

The free webinar takes place Friday, January 20, at noon central time. You can register here.