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 ...

Have you ever been part of a brilliant team?

The fact is, whilst it might be so much easier to do things on our own, in win or bust situations, competitive advantage often boils down to excellent teamwork and collaboration

As Ken Blanchard, author and motivational speaker famously says,

'None of us is as smart of all of us'

Being part of a truly brilliant team which challenges each other creatively, working together seemingly effortlessly, to deliver fantastic results, is one of the best feelings us human beings can have. It gives us a sense of success, achievement and belonging - all wrapped up in one energising bundle. Yet, from sports arenas, to Silicon Valley start ups, many teams fail due to mediocre team performance

The thing is, whilst we may roar our advice and despair from the sidelines as we watch the missteps and mistakes, often with a combination of frustration and judgement, how many of us stop to think about how strong our own team muscles are? How do we actually c...

Has the trend toward quiet quitting spread to your team yet? Probably...

According to a recent Gallop poll, over 50% of people are quiet quitting, so most likely, if you are a manager, this is half of your team!

The idea spreading virally on social media is that millions of people are not going above and beyond at work and are just meeting their job description. 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

According to the Gallup poll, the ratio of engaged to actively disengaged employees is now 1.8 to 1. This is the lowest in almost 10 years. As a leader or manager, it will come as no surprise to you that in terms of timing, the fall in engagement began in the second half of 2021 and happened alongside the rise in job resignations. Managers and leaders among others, experienced the greatest drop

The overall decline in...