by Minou Hexspoor | Dec 15, 2019 | Stress
Overwhelm and Stress as the New Normal Over the years, you have probably done substantial work to develop your leadership style and skills to lead teams and organizations in a highly demanding environment. You know what it takes to be responsible and responsive...
by Minou Hexspoor | Dec 4, 2019 | Stress
Drained by Overwhelm?! Maybe you recognize yourself or others working for your organization, and the overload of priorities and never-ending to-do lists that suck the life out of everything else. If so, you’re probably also continuously running behind with...
by Minou Hexspoor | Oct 15, 2019 | work-life balance
“I’m just exhausted. I need a long vacation or maybe I just need a different job. Work just never stops. I wake up with stress and I go to bed with stress”. It comes up in conversations with clients across the globe time and again: the overwhelm of work stress...
by Minou Hexspoor | Aug 23, 2019 | Humanitarian Mental Health
Stuck Between Stigma & Lack of Support It is an odd phenomenon: when entering the humanitarian sector, an unspoken, widely spread rule descents upon aid and relief workers: ‘I decided to do this, so I can handle it’. Although, obviously, the rule doesn’t exist,...
by Minou Hexspoor | Aug 4, 2019 | Humanitarian Mental Health, Mental Health
Crisis Mode I have been one myself. The kind of manager who’s always working in crisis mode, running around in fight-or-flight mode and saying yes to everyone and everything until the inevitable mental and physical crash. I felt an incredible sense of responsibility...
