Overview

The Burnout Assessment provides both individuals and organizations with a tool to evaluate burnout potential based on research-based criteria. It has clear instructions enclosed and is simple to use.

Is the assessment free?

The Burnout Assessment is free for you to use. It contains the essential assessment used by our corporate, non-profit, and individual clients.

What makes this Burnout Assessment different?

Our Burnout Assessment is the only one to offer both a professional profile and a personal profile. In addition, the updated and revised assessment takes into account the latest research across the world. With comprehensive categories and all original questions, this is an industry-leading Burnout Assessment.

Breakthrough Personal & Professional Development Inc. is the first burnout prevention company at the intersection of healthcare and leadership development.

Who is the assessment for?

The burnout assessment is designed for both individual and organizational use.

Whether you are looking for an effective tool for measuring your personal burnout risk or within your corporate, non-profit, or faith-based organization, the Burnout Assessment provides an effective tool. This robust assessment is evidence-based, encompasses a vast body of research, and helps identify a burnout experience.

How do individuals use the burnout assessment?

Many people use the assessment to gauge their overall well-being, self-care, and potential burnout warning signs based on the common causes of burnout. In addition, they often follow up with individual executive coaching to deal with the concerns they uncover and put into place science-based health recommendations.

How do organizations use the burnout assessment?

Companies use the burnout assessment as part of their overall workplace wellness strategy. It can be a part of regular quarterly evaluations and annual 360 reviews.

Managers use the assessment to monitor the well-being of their employees. The results can open the door to emotionally intelligent, empathetic conversations with employees. Those conversations lead to individualized wellness recommendations as well as company-wide policy and Human Resources strategies. Long-term goals include workplace culture transformation.

Is the Burnout Assessment available electronically to evaluate employees across an organization?

We make evaluating your team easy.

Whether you have a team of 5 or an employee base of 1000, we provide an electronic employee survey of the Burnout Assessment using one of the world’s top platforms.

Contact us to talk about assessing your workforce using the online Burnout Assessment.

Simple.  Measurable.  Efficient.

Are you a leader who wants to learn how we help organizations like yours prevent employee burnout and create a culture of happy, healthy employees?

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What you will learn

You will identify your stress levels based upon questions geared to physical health, mental health, emotional health, relational health, and professional health.

You will recognize cracks in the foundation of your self-care plan and established wellness routine.

The good news is burnout can be prevented and overcome. The Burnout Assessment tool is the first step toward recognizing your own burnout risk or the risk of your employees.

What are the warning signs you may have burnout?

Researcher and psychologist, Christian Maslach, named three burnout characteristics that arise in response to chronic workplace stressors. Therefore, occupational burnout typically includes these indicators:

1 Physical and mental exhaustion.

2. Feelings of cynicism or negativity toward work.

3. Decreased performance or efficacy.

Learn more here.

What are the symptoms of burnout?

It is important to understand the signs and symptoms of burnout in order to spot it early and implement effective measures. While burnout presents differently in different people, typical warning signs you may have burnout include exhaustion, getting sick more often than you used to, insomnia and sleep disturbances, emotional exhaustion, shame and guilt, and reduced productivity. Learn more about the signs and symptoms of burnout here.

Are burnout and Compassion Fatigue the same thing?

While there are many similarities between burnout and Compassion Fatigue, the impetus differs. Whereas burnout results from chronic workplace stress, Compassion Fatigue is a direct result of experiencing secondary trauma or vicarious trauma. It stems from witnessing the suffering of others. Those who devote their lives to compassionately supporting others' suffering are at greater risk of facing Compassion Fatigue. It is not uncommon for people experiencing Compassion Fatigue to become burnt out. Learn more about Compassion Fatigue here.

Does burnout affect mental health?

Career burnout can affect every area of one’s life including physical health, mental health, emotional and spiritual health, relational health, financial and professional health.

Some people may experience depression or anxiety alongside burnout, while others do not. People often experience mental exhaustion or brain fog. Learn more about the symptoms of burnout, including how it can affect mental health here.

What areas of life does the assessment cover?

There are two main sections. The first section relates directly to professional factors that can lead toward either wellness or burnout. The second section focuses on work-life balance, personal health, and self-care.

Assessment categories are based on the World Health Organization’s definition of burnout. The WHO defines burnout as "a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions: feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and reduced professional efficacy.

What is new about the revised and updated Burnout Assessment?

1. Easy to use. The assessment is broken down into easy-to-read & easy-to-interpret sections.

2. New categories. The assessment evaluates two key areas based on the latest scientific research. The first includes six factors known to accelerate burnout in the workplace: lack of workload, autonomy, reward, community, equity, and values in the professional sphere. The second half determines how work affects your health in five critical areas.

3. New questions. The assessment is more robust, with 120 questions across 12 categories making evaluation that much easier.

4. Diversity and inclusion. Equity questions have been added to evaluate employees' sense of fairness related to ethnicity, gender and faith.

5. New format. Questions are divided into clearly divided sections so organizations can better interpret how company culture affects employees. 

6. New scoring. With newly revised categories, scoring and interpretation occur on three easy-to-understand planes. First is the overall score. The second is the score within each category. The third is recognizing red flags within any section.

How to use the assessment

As an individual, use the self-test assessment as a barometer of your overall work-life balance, stressors, and professional satisfaction.

As an organization, use the assessment among your leadership team and train managers to use it with the employees they oversee. We recommend reassessing quarterly to recognize the signs of burnout early, provide burnout prevention measures, and encourage wellness and productivity.

Instructions for completing the assessment

Once you download the Burnout Assessment, all you will need is a pen or pencil. Read through each question and answer to the best of your ability. Responses are on a scale of one to ten, with one representing “disagree” and ten representing “agree”.

Very clear instructions are included in the Burnout Assessment, along with examples.

How much time does the assessment take?

We recommend you set aside approximately 30 minutes to complete the assessment. Each individual is different, so it may take you more or less time to complete.

Your assessment score, results and interpretation.

Scoring occurs on three levels: overall score, category score, and red flags.

Each category contains ten questions. You’ll be asked to add the numbers you chose for each individual question at the end of each category. This gives you the category score.

You will add together all the category scores at the end of the assessment. This provides you with your overall score.

Lastly, you are encouraged to note any individual question with a score of one to six. This signifies a red flag to pay attention to and implement measures to improve this score.

Complete instructions for scoring and interpreting your results are included in the Burnout Assessment tool.

Is the Burnout Assessment evidence-based?

This is an evidence-based assessment in accordance with burnout experts including,

• Christina Maslach, a Professor (Emerita), researcher, and pioneer around job burnout indicators;

• Michael P Leiter, Adjunct Professor, and workplace burnout researcher;

• World Health Organization;

• National Institutes of Health,

• among many other credible references from across the globe.

What are your next steps?

After completing the Burnout Assessment, speak to someone you trust about the outcomes you've discovered. Areas to focus on include stress management, healthy boundaries, work-life balance, self-care, and mental health.

Breakthrough Personal & Professional Development Inc. provides burnout prevention and wellness solutions to both organizations and individuals through Workplace Wellness Programs & Culture transformations; Workshops & Programs; and Executive Coaching. Wherever you find yourself, or your employees on the Burnout Assessment score, we have tools and resources for you to thrive.

Using the Burnout Assessment for your research project.

The Burnout Assessment is being used in research studies. The instrument has a .963 Crohn-Bachs alpha coefficient for reliability.

Do you wish to use the Burnout Assessment for your research project?

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