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Addressing Barriers to Female Officer Retention in the Air Force

Discusses strategies for and the corresponding research behind integrating women into combat units.

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Air Force Commander’s Guide to Diversity and Inclusion

Provides guidance for military officers on fostering diversity and inclusion within their unit.

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Diversity and Inclusion: Resource List

List of books and videos that provide information on diversity and inclusion and tools for facilitating an inclusive environment.

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DoD Board on Diversity and Inclusion Report

Provides a summary and recommendations on diversity and inclusion in the military.

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Culture, Gender, and Women in the Military: Implications for Interactional Humanitarian Law Compliance

Summarizes and links to a report that discusses women’s experiences in the military and provides policy recommendations.

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Inclusion: Diversity Management 2.0

Discusses inclusion and proposes that organizations should move beyond traditional diversity management initiatives and toward inclusion.

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Seek to Understand: Microaggressions

Features a short military training video on microaggressions. Service member shares their story and explains the impact of microaggressions on underrepresented individuals.

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Women Warriors: The Ongoing Story of Integrating and Diversifying the American Armed Forces

Provides historical background on women in the military and makes recommendations for expanding inclusion of women in the military in the future.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership: The Role of Emotional Intelligence

Explains the concept of emotional intelligence and provides resources for tests of it.

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People First: PMCS Your Soldiers

Discusses the importance of leaders counseling, checking in with their personnel regularly to ensure their well-being, and getting to know them better to increase trust.

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Got Morale?

Provides tips for leaders on boosting morale.

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Leadership Forum—Make Morale Our First Priority

Discusses the importance of morale and how leadership can shape it.

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Morale: The Essential Intangible

Describes factors affecting morale, indicators of poor morale, and actionable items for increasing morale.

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Problem Solving

Provides infographic, podcast, video, and webinar resources on problem-solving that are categorized by different proficiency levels.

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See the Racial/Ethnic Harassment and Discrimination section under the Strategic Target Outcomes tab.

Gun Safety and Suicide

Provides safe storage of lethal means resources from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

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Lethal Means Safety for Military Service Members and Their Families

Provides information on reducing access to firearms to aid suicide prevention; tailored to the military community.

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Lethal Means Safety Resource Library

Provides safe storage for lethal means resources from the Defense Suicide Prevention Office (DSPO).

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Lethal Means Safety Toolkit

Provides information on safe storage practices and suicide prevention resources and a tip list for commanders and military families on the safe storage for lethal means.

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Lethal Means Safety With Veterans

Discusses the importance of safe lethal means storage, with detailed information on different storage methods.

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Lock2Live

Provides a survey for individuals to assess their lethal means safety practices and offers guidance based on their responses.

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Reducing Access to Firearms: A Suicide Prevention Guide for Military Leaders

Provides recommendations and resources for military leaders on reducing access to firearms for suicide prevention.

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Athena Thriving: A Unit Guide to Combating Gender Discrimination in the Army

Outlines multiple issues that women face in the military and steps Commanders and leaders can take to ameliorate these issues.

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Confronting Digital Misogyny: Why the Military’s #MeToo Moment Must Tackle Cyberharassment

Describes a need to confront online harassment in the military.

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Gendered Language Is a Barrier to Inclusion and Unit Cohesion

Discusses the importance of using inclusive language in a military setting.

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How Men Can Confront Other Men About Sexist Behaviors

Outlines how men can confront other men about their sexist behaviors towards women.

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Sexism: See it. Name it. Stop it.

Provides facts and information on the impact of sexism on society and the workplace.

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Sexism at Work

Lists 10 steps for leaders to follow to address a sexist work environment.

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Women, Regardless: Understanding Gender Bias in U.S. Military Integration

Summarizes gender bias in the U.S. military as well as ways to counteract it.

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See the Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment section under the Strategic Target Outcomes tab.

Air Force’s Guide to Work-Related Stressors for Leaders

Provides a list for leaders about recognizing workplace stress, including signs of stress, recommended actions, and leadership considerations.

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Caring for Your Mental Health

Provides mental health self-care tips, helpful videos, and fact sheets on managing stress.

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Chill Drills

Describes the Chill Drills mobile app by Military OneSource, which provides military members techniques to relieve stress with a collection of simple audio mindfulness exercises to relax the body and mind.

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Follow These Stress Relief Tips

Provides tips for managing stress while in the military.

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Managing Combat and Operation Stress

Includes information on managing combat and operational stress.

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Military Leadership in Stressful Situations

Discusses how leaders can effectively communicate and interact with unit members during stressful events.

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Stress Reduction Techniques for High Stress Operations

Describes and offers suggestions for navigating a high stress operational environment.

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Army Takes on Its Own Toxic Leaders

Discusses toxic leadership in the military, how it is defined, and how it is being addressed.

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Eliminate Toxic Leadership

Defines and discusses toxic leadership within the military and provides guidance for addressing it.

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Healing Trauma: Why It’s Fundamental for Effective Leadership

Discusses the importance of confronting personal trauma in order to become an effective leader.

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Toxic Leadership: Learn From My Mistakes

Self-reflective article on lessons learned from a commander who faced suspension for counterproductive leadership.

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Character Into Action: How Officers Demonstrate Strengths With Transformational Leadership

Describes the characteristics of transformational leadership and provides specific examples to embody those traits.

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Marine Corps Leadership: The Legacy of Development and Recommendations for the Future

Discusses the benefits of incorporating a transformational leadership philosophy.

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Transforming Future Air Force Leaders of Tomorrow

Describes the theory and practice of multiple leadership styles, including transformational leadership.

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Balancing Work and Life as Dual Military Couples

Discusses the expectations of dual military couples and balancing the demands of military and family life.

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Navigate the Shift: Performance Tips for Deployed-in-Place Warfighters and Their Families

Discusses the unique challenges of Service members who are deployed in place and suggests strategies to improve work-life balance.

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Single and No Kids? Who is Work–Life Balance for?

Discusses the unique challenges of single adults and urges leadership to facilitate work–life balance among these individuals as well.

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Understanding and Supporting the Military Spouse in Your Life

Highlights challenges of military spouses and provides suggestions for how Service members can be supportive.

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Work–Life Balance

Provides practical steps one can take to create a healthy work–life balance.

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Work and Life Balance—Dispelling the Myth!

Recommendations from a military leader on creating a work–life balance in the military.

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Work–Life Balance in the Military

Discusses and offers guidance for improving work–life balance for military members and their families.

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4 Strategies to Repair a Toxic Culture From the Top Down

Provides strategies for addressing toxic workplace cultures.

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Toxic Culture: Enabling Incivility in the U.S Military and What to Do About It

Discusses toxic work environments and how to create a culture of respect.

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Understanding Workplace Hazing and Bullying

Defines and describes hazing and bullying in the military and how the two behaviors differ.

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