Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Caring for Those Who Care for Others: Mental Health in the Nonprofit Workplace and the Paradox of…While experiencing similar workplace trends and having to respond to societal stressors, nonprofit organizations and mission-driven…Jan 1214Jan 1214
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Mental Health at Work: From Self-Care Seminars to Employment LawTen years ago, Psychology Today warned that a “silent tsunami” of mental disorders in the workplace “could engulf organizations in [a]…Sep 29, 20211Sep 29, 20211
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Mental Health as Corporate Priority in the COVID-19 WorldAnother pandemic awaits — the impact of COVID-19 on mental health.Jun 2, 2020Jun 2, 2020
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Lessons from the 2003 SARS Epidemic: Employers can act now to flatten the mental illness curveCOVID-19 has already altered fundamental corporate best practices and assumptions and could have broader consequences in several key…Jun 2, 2020Jun 2, 2020
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)The COVID Depression: A New Deal for Mental HealthWe are learning to understand, manage and live with COVID-19. In response to the crisis caused by the pandemic the U.S, government moved…Jun 2, 2020Jun 2, 2020
InGetting better, together.byCarin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Mourning, Management, and MetamorphosisGrief is generally taboo in the workplace, despite evidence that it erodes performance both short and long term.Jan 15, 2021Jan 15, 2021
InGetting better, together.byCarin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)A modest purpose proposal and the making of a caring companyThe Great Resignation & why we need more caring companies that measure kindness and giving at work.Nov 24, 2021Nov 24, 2021
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)How Extending a Hand to Employee Caregivers Helps Them and Firms: Lessons from Caring for My EldersCaregiving, especially of close relatives like parents, can be a significant inflection point in one’s mental health. These moments warrant…Jan 31, 20231Jan 31, 20231
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)What the Stress-Strain Curve can teach us about managing stress at workMore and more companies claim to be committed to mental health at work — yet most of their initiatives are not targeted, and the field of…Apr 10, 20223Apr 10, 20223
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Under stress, what kind of metal would you be?Engineers use the stress-strain curve to assess how a type of material reacts under stress before deploying it. Most material strength…May 8, 20221May 8, 20221
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Lessons from COVID to manage stress at work: Learn. Monitor. Distance. Protect. Connect.In late March 2020, we encouraged companies to make mental health a priority in COVID. By June we had forecast the mental health pandemic…May 30, 2022May 30, 2022
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Being Expatriates in our Own LivesA few months ago we moved to a different world-with other rules, tools, and norms. We will transition again as economies re-open, hybrid…Jun 4, 2020Jun 4, 2020
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Build Mental Health Back Better, Mr. Biden. Because no vaccine is coming for the Covid depression.In 1968, over 10 million Americans, many of them children, suffered from hunger and malnutrition. But it took the CBS news report Hunger…Nov 29, 2020Nov 29, 2020
InGetting better, together.byCarin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Lights! Camera! Pajamas!The Covid Improv Theater Stage of Life and WorkFeb 5, 20212Feb 5, 20212
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)To improve mental health at work, focus on the work part.Our April 20, 2020 op-ed entitled “The next pandemic? A mental health crisis?” warned corporate leaders and public health officials that…Apr 20, 2021Apr 20, 2021
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Depressed and anxious? Think pencil, not phone.“Making art allows the lava of emotions pent up inside of me to flow out slowly, avoiding an eruption. I fear that if people don’t express…May 16, 2021May 16, 2021
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)Who are the Naomi Osakas and Michael Phelps of the business world? We are.No one knows all the sacrifices that you make just to be good. Naomi Osaka[i]Jul 13, 2021Jul 13, 2021
InGetting better, together.byCarin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)To improve mental health at work, we need to take off our emotional masks.If we learn to love ourselves as we truly are, we‘re one step closer to mental health & making safe workplaces.Oct 12, 20211Oct 12, 20211
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)What the Digital Transformation of Mental Health Support Means for Employers — and Employees.In the olden days, when at a loss with what to do for sick individuals, doctors and apothecaries ordered or dispensed “ut aliquid erit”…Aug 4, 20232Aug 4, 20232
Carin-Isabel Knoop (on Humans in the Digital Era)If Mental Health is a Formula, it Might be Time for a New Math.The World Health Organization (WHO) conceptualizes mental health as a “state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own…Nov 6, 202314Nov 6, 202314
