quiz by minimalistee.

Is Your
Team
Burnt Out?

Is it time for a recovery conversation?
Here are 10 simple questions for the founders & leaders to help you begin understanding your team better.

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Team Burnout Scorecard
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01 - Energy

When you look at your team on a Monday morning, do most of them look tired before the week has even begun?

Not just quiet - but a specific kind of flat. Like they're already running on low. Not sleepy, but depleted.

02 - Silence

Have people who used to speak up in meetings stopped doing so - without any obvious reason?

Ideas, challenges, opinions - they used to share them. Now the room is quieter. Nobody's complaining, but nobody's contributing much either.

03 - Time Off

When team members return from leave, do they still seem exhausted within a day or two?

Vacation should restore energy. If they're back to empty within 48 hours - rest is not the problem. The environment is.

04 - Effort vs Output

Is your team working long hours but delivering work that feels below what you know they're capable of?

High input, low output is a burnout pattern - not a skill gap. The effort is going into surviving, not creating.

05 - Small Things

Are small mistakes - the kind your team never used to make - happening more often lately?

Typos. Missed deadlines. Forgotten follow-ups. These are cognitive fatigue signals, not carelessness. A burnt-out brain loses its ability to hold details.

06 - Beyond the Job

Has anyone on your team stopped doing anything beyond their minimum responsibilities?

Burnt-out people don't stop caring overnight. They protect the last of their energy by cutting everything optional first.

07 - Tone

Has the emotional tone of your team shifted - more irritable, more detached, or strangely flat?

Cynicism or emotional numbness that wasn't there before - these are the emotional phases of burnout, not personality problems.

08 - Clarity

Does your team frequently seem unsure about priorities - even for tasks that should feel straightforward?

When someone is cognitively exhausted, even familiar decisions feel overwhelming. What looks like confusion is often depletion.

09 - Recognition

When you give your team positive feedback, does it seem to have little to no effect on their energy?

Recognition is fuel - but only when the tank isn't bone dry. If acknowledgment isn't landing, they need structural change, not more praise.

10 - Instinct

As their manager, does something feel off - even if you can't put it into a performance metric?

Your instinct is data. If the team doesn't seem like themselves - trust that. Burnout often shows up in feel before it shows up in numbers.

Team Burnout Scorecard