Is your team building up, burning out, or checking out

Is your team building up, burning out, or checking out?

In 2023 we all were introduced to a new phenomenon, 'quiet quitting'. The idea spread virally on social media and suddenly millions of people confirmed that they were not going above and beyond at work, and were just meeting their job description. They were checking out

Yet as well as checking out, burn out has an equally negative impact on individual and team performance

Mental health UK in their 2025 study cited that 1 in 5 workers still needed time off work due to mental health struggles caused by burn out. The Report states, "With burn out, you feel so detached and demotivated that it impacts your ability to function and you feel hopeless that your situation can change"

Both burn out and check out (quiet quitting) are real. The ratio of engaged to actively disengaged employees is now 1.8 to 1 according to a recent Gallup poll. This is the lowest in almost 10 years. The overall decline in engagement is particularly related to clarity of expectations, opportunities to learn and grow, feeling cared about, and a connection to the company’s mission or purpose 

This is a problem for you as a team leader, because most likely the roles in your team require some level of extra effort to collaborate with colleagues and meet your customer needs, so you can hit your targets

The thing is, what do you do if, despite your best efforts, you realise that half your team may be disengaged through burn out or check out? What is the best thing to do to have the biggest positive impact on the people you are leading? How can you build up your team?

At Progressfull, we believe the answer is to show you care, ask team member's their view, find out what is working well for them, and what to focus on, then together work through how to move forward. We have created a framework for you to do just that 

The framework combines learning together, assessing the team together, and moving forward by focussing effort and energy together. The framework is a mini masterclass and team muscles assessment so that a team can reengage and boost performance together, unified and inspired. The team is building up rather than burning out or checking out

This practical solution, works really well. The team learns together about the elements required to build up into an engaged high performing team. Each team member is asked to share their view on the team’s effectiveness, together with completing an online assessment which is straight forward and anonymous

What this does is give everyone a voice and a vote. It means that you can learn together as a team, and start to build engagement together, boosting the team together in a way which is unified and inspired. This is what we mean by building up the team

Team muscles mini masterclass and assessment is great as it explores the fundamental principles and tools to strengthen your team muscles and provides real time assessment of the teams overall effectiveness. The pre-recorded mini masterclass introduces the factors associated with achieving high performance in teams and what it actually takes for you and the team to get there! 

The team will gain tips and insights you can put into practice straight away. You will be able to audit your present approach by completing the team muscles online assessment and review where to focus the team’s effort and energy to boost and accelerate team performance and engagement. It's the best thing you can do to ensure you are building up the team. The cost is £500 for a team (up to 10 team members)

This taster really is a must for anyone who wants to reengage, reinspire and redress burning out and checking out, whilst also gain a real time assessment of their team’s effectiveness and insights about “where” and “how” to build up strong team muscles

Discover more and how to give your team a voice and a vote to boost your teams performance with our Team muscles mini masterclass and assessment

If you are interested in strengthening your contribution within the team rather than the whole team, then you can experience our team muscles mini masterclass without the team assessment. The Team muscles mini masterclass introduces you to the factors associated with achieving high performance in teams and what it actually takes for you to get there! You will gain tips and insights you can put into practice straight away for only £50

Discover more about the Team muscles mini masterclass HERE