Window of Tolerance Worksheet

A COO interprets every activated state as useful energy and every low-energy state as a productivity problem. He has no framework for distinguishing between arousal that is functional and arousal that has exceeded his capacity. His team describes him as unpredictable — sometimes incisive, sometimes explosive, with no visible pattern from the outside.

Lead with the three-zone model before asking him to map his own experience. 'The model describes three states: a functio...