Peaceful Direction Resource Library

Research shows it’s not worth it.

Even well-intentioned organizations inadvertently reinforce outdated gender norms.

How personal productivity transformed work—and failed to.

Being the “only” in the workplace — the only woman, the only person of color, the only one openly suffering from a mental or physical illness — can contribute to existing mental health issues. At the same time, bringing your whole self to work — even when you are an “only” and might be the only person struggling with clinical depression or anxiety — can be a huge strength in the business world. In this episode, we’ll look at anxiety and depression through the lens of being an “only” or a “first” at work. Host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with two experts on the topic: Angela Neal-Barnett, an aw...

Yes, you can enjoy socializing again. But it might take a little effort.

Listen before you try to persuade.

How you can build the one skill that will make you put your priorities in order

Lessons from an Obama White House staffer.

Jia Jiang adventures boldly into a territory so many of us fear: rejection. By seeking out rejection for 100 days -- from asking a stranger to borrow $100 to requesting a "burger refill" at a restaurant -- Jiang desensitized himself to the pain and shame that rejection often brings and, in the process, discovered that simply asking for what you want can open up possibilities where you expect to find dead ends.

These six tactics create productive conflict with a focus on issues, not personalities.

Concrete advice for a squishy challenge

It’s not just about introspection.

Listening may not be the most exciting part of conversation, but it’s essential if you want to have a meaningful exchange with another person. Psychologist Tania Israel shares the 3 basic ski…

When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations. "Go out, talk to people, listen to people," she says. "And, most importantly, be prepared to be amazed."

If you are a Life Coach, dedicated to the personal development of others, you are continuously pushing your edge, and actively seeking training and coach...

Managing other people's reactions to your trauma is exhausting; enlisting someone else to update folks your behalf is a small act of self-care, and an easy way to take people up on their “let me know if you need anything” offers.

We’re all living through an unprecedented moment in modern history, the potential scale of which hasn’t been seen in over one hundred…

Cut it down to one line.

Overwhelmed by the number of meetings on your calendar? Here’s a practical process for deciding which ones to skip.

We're hiring quite a lot of new people at GDS, and that's brilliant because there are so many new brains and new skills and new faces to get to know. It's also difficult. It's difficult for those newcomers to know …

And how to say yes

But if there are two, her odds go way up.

On the most recent episode of my podcast, Deep Questions, a listener asked for my advice about delegation. This is an important topic that I haven’t talked a lot about before, so I thought it might be useful to sharpen and elaborate the answer I gave on my show. In the office setting, most delegation […]

Instead of villainizing technology just because it's trendy, Cal Newport makes a compelling case for satisfaction that runs deeper than pings and pixels.