Burnout Test
Our burnout test is no longer available. However, you can find some useful resources on burnout below.
Monkey Puzzle works with individuals and organisations to help prevent and mitigate burnout. We hope these resources will help you understand more about this complex topic that can affect so many of us. If you have any further questions, please contact us.
Managing creative talent – what every leader needs to know
Creative people are often complex, and come with complex issues. It’s part of what makes them great at what they do – but not always easy to manage. Getting top creative talent to work well together calls for an understanding of their motivations and their behaviours. By creative, we mean…
How to embed a culture of wellbeing in your organisation
Despite the pressures of the pandemic on home and work-life, especially impacting on mental health, new research finds that actual take up of wellbeing programmes is running at 23%. (HBR/Gartner 2021). This is despite much higher numbers of employees admitting to mental health issues. It’s clearly in everyone’s interest to…
Genuinely busy or disorganised? Which are you?
We often see the new year as an opportunity for a fresh start or to try something new. Our new year gift to you for 2020, is to consider how you use the word ‘busy’. Being busy is a seemingly routine expression, part of everyday organisational life. We’ve probably all…
Workplace predictions for 2021: Mental health and employee wellbeing
The Covid-19 pandemic dramatically altered the blog content covered by Monkey Puzzle across 2020. Many of our additional articles addressed the impact of the virus on the mental health of the workforce, and with good reason. It affected everyone, at all levels, both inside and outside of work. With the…
Managing burnout back in the physical workplace
Burnout has been one of the most talked about organisational topics throughout the pandemic. As business and government press for a return to office life, the organisations that stand the best chance of successfully managing burnout will be those that recognise what has happened to their people while they’ve been…
What’s stopping you from creating an empowerment culture?
When your people are free to lead initiatives and make decisions on their own they are more engaged, more innovative and productive. But here’s the problem. Delivering real empowerment is fraught with challenges. Organisations claim to want to empower their employees but can they really? The utopia of empowerment is…
Can you recover from burnout without leaving your job?
No one wants to leave a job they love because of burnout. Yet sometimes this feels like the only way out, despite the risks to career and finances. However, some people do recover – and do so while staying in their roles. For those that don’t succumb to burnout, how…
The denial phase of burnout that no-one talks about
Although this is a blog about burnout, the Coronavirus COVID-19 is currently dominating all our lives, putting many of us under huge pressure at home and at work – a line that is increasingly blurred. Inevitably this additional stress may lead to higher levels of burnout, which makes this content…
The burnout epidemic – causes, myths and prevention
Burnout can gradually creep up on those it affects – which makes it so hard to identify. You feel like you are in control, despite the pressure. And then one day you’re not OK. Does this sound familiar? You are certainly not alone. A ‘Google’ search on burnout shows us…
3 Life hacks to keep your energy up and avoid burnout
Anyone can experience burnout. It creeps up on you slowly and the results can be devastating. Burnout is commonly linked to stress and overwork and is particularly common in professions where there is a lot of emotional caring involved like medical professions, coaching, psychotherapy, people that work in care homes,…