Maslach Burnout Toolkit™
Develop your coping skills
Do you recognize the risk factors of burnout so you can take action early enough?
In Finland, one in four people experiences symptoms of burnout. Preventing burnout is extremely important for the individual and the organization. Addressing risk factors for burnout proactively can have a big impact: we can increase well-being, improve satisfaction and the quality of work.
We can reduce absences, staff resignations and turnover. This is why it’s important to pay attention to factors causing burnout at the organizational level. Root causes of reduced well-being at work are well worth acting upon even before burnout causes serious consequences to the individuals and the organization.
Maslach Burnout Toolkit™
Make a conscious effort to prevent burnout
The scientifically tested Maslach Burnout Toolkit™ (MBI + AWS) can reliably assess the risk factors of burnout. It’s better to solve problems proactively than to drain your energy or let others get drained. Our toolkit provides you with an excellent method for finding workplace factors that cause exhaustion.
Maslach Burnout Toolkit™ will help you with:
- Self-management
- Coaching
- Developing management and leadership
- Follow-up on well-being and commitment in the organization (collective status update)
- Developing the organizational culture
Quick and easy way to find out potential burnout and employees’ views on the workplace
- Reliably measure the level of potential burnout and assess its likely causes.
- Assess employees’ well-being and work engagement.
- The Maslach Burnout Toolkit is available in English and Finnish (upcoming Swedish translation).
- The online questionnaire is short (44 questions) and quick to fill in (10–15 minutes).
- Get in-depth, detailed results quickly.
- The report is thorough and helps you independently interpret the assessment results.
- Individual and group reports available.
- The report helps you interpret the assessment results, but it is not a diagnostic tool.
How can I start using the MBI + AWS?
To ensure best understanding of the MBI + AWS report, it is interpreted with the coach. The same coach provides you with the reports (assessments). Easy!
You can either:
- Participate in the toolkit user training to get permission to use the profiling tool independently, OR
- Find a Maslach Burnout Toolkit™ partner for you through us: contact information for certified consultants
Start assessing well-being and work engagement today!
Maslach Burnout Toolkit™: Maslach Burnout Inventory™ (MBI) + Areas of Worklife (AWS)
The Maslach Burnout Toolkit™ effectively assesses the level of burnout and its likely causes, and the underlying scientific research is extensive (Maslach & Leiter). The MBI and AWS toolkit investigates the occurrence of burnout, the nature of possible burnout and the degree of personal fit with key aspects of the workplace.
The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is the best known, most used and most researched burnout questionnaire internationally. The person being assessed indicates on the MBI scale how often they feel:
- Exhaustion (lost energy)
- Cynicism (lost enthusiasm)
- Professional Efficacy (lost confidence)
Areas of Worklife (AWS), which complements the MBI, is a short questionnaire. Its reliability and validity have been proved in several professional contexts. The questionnaire assesses the employees’ views on their workplace attributes which may have an impact on whether they feel work engagement or burnout.
What our customers are saying?
I use the MBI + AWS scales in my work as a coach for leaders and managers. This method has proved a useful tool in measuring clients’ coping at work. In leadership coaching, sustained well-being at work is one of the most common goals, and the person’s own experience is always the starting point in the process. It’s also essential that a person’s feelings about their coping are seen from a wider perspective. I’ve found it very useful when the measurement indicates that “only 12% of the comparison group is coping worse than you are”. It’s an eye-opener; it provides a perspective on how you feel about how you’re coping and strips the last intentions of bravely soldiering on at work. This paves the way for effectively dealing with the situation and looking for keys to change. The Areas of Worklife questionnaire included in the measurement is also a useful tool in tracking the factors that have an effect on coping. One client’s assessment was reviewed with his manager, and it revealed a feeling of being poorly rewarded for one’s work. The discussion disclosed that the issue wasn’t about the salary but about management group ignoring HR issues that the person was advocating. The manager became aware of the situation, and this opened up an opportunity for change.
Here at The WeLaB, we have used the Maslach Burnout Toolkit in management and team coaching. The MBI works well in eliciting discussion on burnout, and even if someone is not suffering from burnout, the six areas of worklife (AWS) have provided useful information on their fit with their workplace culture. We’ve had many interesting and insightful discussions on values and fairness for example.