KISS Your Work Stress Good Bye

What stresses you at work?

For our Mental Model Dōjō session on March 20, 2024, we tackled the topic of “KISS Your Work Stress Goodbye — Practical Steps to De-complicate and Regain Footing”. Here are my notes from after the session.

We gathered to discuss and learn from one another mental approaches for dealing with stressful situations at work. I kicked things off by sharing the following mental models before the session starting with KISS (“keep it stupid simple”), just to see which aspects of work participants found to be the most stress-inducing:

• KISS (keep it stupid simple)
• Eisenhower matrix
• Chunking
• Delegation, empowerment spectrum
• c2it to follow-through
• What you tell a person is less important than what you enable the person to tell you.
• 8 mind & heart hacks for emotionally charged situations
• When overwhelmed
• Three chairs of empathy
• If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced
• Knowing to stop
• Serenity prayer