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Excerpt from Human Capital Management: What Really Works in Government - Chapter 1
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Excerpt from Human Capital Management: What Really Works in Government - Chapter 1

This chapter describes how new leadership at the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Transportation (DOT-OIG) achieved transformational change with assistance from TWG.

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On-Boarding


Dulles SHRM On-Boarding
Building the Business Case Game
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Dulles SHRM On-Boarding
Quiz with Answers
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On-Boarding Statistics
Test your knowledge of the impact of on-boarding.
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Organizational On-Boarding Assessment
How does your on-boarding program stack up?
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Leadership


Change at the Top — A 2-Part Series About Making the Most of Management Changes
Washington Business Journal
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SAA Network Consultant of the Month
Sharon Armstrong and Associates HR Consulting and Referral Network
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How the Most Successful People Learn Under Pressure
Scott Eblin
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Google's Project Oxygen Pumps Fresh Air into Management
Brad Hall
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Presence and Power
Amy Cuddy and Susan Cain
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Performance Management


Annual Annoyance
Performance reviews are often a hassle for workers and supervisors. It doesn’t have to be that way.
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Providing Effective Feedback — Tips for Making the Process a More Positive Experience
Managing staff performance is essential to the success of any organization, yet it is also an area that most managers find to be the most challenging part of their job.
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The Manager’s Dilemma: Delivering Business Results and Developing Your Employees
Delivering business results and developing your employees.
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On-Boarding


Get ‘Em Started Right – Enhancing Performance and Retention Through Effective On-Boarding
Presentation by The Wynhurst Group/Watson Wyatt, HRA-NCA Conference
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Help New Hires Succeed: Beat the Statistics
Caela Farren, Ph.D., MasteryWorks, Inc.
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Body Language/Communication


Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are
Amy Cuddy
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How Language Generates Your World and Mine
Chalmers Brothers at TEDxBocaRaton
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Language and the Pursuit of Happiness
Chalmers Brothers
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The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers
Adam Grant
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Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss
FreshBooks University
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Look refugees in the eye: Powerful video experiment breaks down barriers
Amnesty International
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The Power of Words - A girl Changed a BLIND man Day
The Re-echoes of Our Cries
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Engaging the Intelligence of the Heart
TEDxTalks - Howard Martin
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6 Photographers Capture Same Person But Results Vary Widely Because of a Twist
Cynthia Boylan
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How to Speak Up for Yourself

TED Talks - Adam Galinsky
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10 ways to have a better conversation
TED Talks - Celeste Headlee
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How to Practice Radical Honesty
Humans Hate Being Spun: How to Practice Radical Honesty — from the Woman Who Defined Netflix’s Culture
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Leadership


Lead Like the Great Conductors
Itay Talgam
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How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Simon Sinek
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Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe
Simon Sinek
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What Separates Great Managers From the Rest
Amy Adkins
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Listen, Learn… Then Lead
Stanley McChrystal
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Three Traits Every CEO Needs
Justin Menkes
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How to Make Executive Coaching
Work for Your Company and
Executives

Rick Koonce
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Seven First-Year Mistakes Senior Executives Make
Scott Eblin
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What Can Coaches Do for You?
Diane Coutu and
Carol Kauffman
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Everyday leadership
Drew Dudley
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Emotional Intelligence
David Goleman
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How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management
David A. Garvin
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What Makes a Leader?
Daniel Goleman
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The Ladder of Inference Creates Bad Judgment
Tarent Tevis
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How to Succeed in Business? Do Less.
Morten T. Hansen
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What you can learn from Kimpton’s award-winning company culture
Kent Bernhard
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Gender & Bias


Confidence Gap
Katty Kay and Claire Shipman
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Speaking While Female
Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
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When Talking About Bias Backfires
Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg
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Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom
Carmen Nobel
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How to ask for more—and get it
Alex Carter
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Happiness


The Happy Secret to Better Work
Shawn Achor
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The Surprising Science of Happiness
Dan Gilbert
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How To Succeed? Get More Sleep
Arianna Huffington
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Choice, Happiness and Spaghetti Sauce
Malcolm Gladwell
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The habits behind successful, creative, productive people
Lillian Cunningham
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What I Wish I Would Have Known About Letting Things Go
Scott Eblin
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Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier.
Arthur C. Brooks
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What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
Robert Waldinger
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Sheryl Sandberg Gives UC Berkeley Commencement Keynote Speech
Sheryl Sandberg
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Meaning & Motivation


What Makes Us Feel Good About Our Work?
Dan Ariely
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The Puzzle of Motivation
Dan Pink
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On Being Wrong
Kathryn Schulz
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Getting out of the Box
The anatomy of peace.
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Karim Sulayman - I trust you
Karim Sulayman - I trust you
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Power of Introverts


The Power of Introverts
Susan Cain
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Self-Management


4 Steps to Dispel a Bad Mood
Alexander Caillet, Jeremy Hirshberg and Stefano Petti
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How Your State of Mind Affects Your Performance
Alexander Caillet, Jeremy Hirschberg and Stefano Petti
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Get in the Right State of Mind for Vacation
Alexander Caillet, Jeremy Hirschberg and Stefano Petti
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Guidance for the negative thinker in all of us
Lillian Cunningham
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How to make stress your friend
Kelly McGonigal
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How to Shake Off a Bad Mood
Alexander Caillet, Jeremy Hirshberg and Stefano Petti
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Don't Take it Personally When I Tell You 'No.' I'm Using it on Everyone This Year
Lena Dunham
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Boundaries, Empathy and Compassion
Brene Brown
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
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Inner Game of Tennis
Tim Gallwey
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Teamwork


Why it's time to forget the pecking order at work
Margaret Heffernan
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Vulnerability


Listening to Shame
Brené Brown
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The Power of Vulnerability
Brené Brown
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The Price of Shame
Monica Lewinsky
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Managing Conflict


Radical Candor - The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss
FreshBooks University
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