“Stress is more contagious than a cold.” Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on why fleeing your job does not solve your problems.
“Stress spreads like a virus through teams and organizations.” Stress expert Elke Van Hoof explains how your stress not only destroys yourself, but also infects your entire environment. A large-scale study followed 250,000 employees over 12 years and discovered something disturbing: some people who flee unhealthy organizations take their stress with them to their new job and infect their new colleagues there. The effect was even worse among managers.
But how do you deal with stress more consciously? Have you ever considered a stress budget? And what do terms like VUCA world and BANI world actually mean for our daily stress levels? Elke introduces the term stress activism: dealing more consciously with our own stress. Because one thing is certain: others are indeed infected by your stress.
