Good Fences Make Good Teammates: Defining and Implementing Effective Boundaries In the Workplace

People are able to be effective in a workplace environment by developing and maintaining different kinds of boundaries.  By creating, maintaining, and communicating clearly around physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual boundaries, everybody is capable of creating healthy, productive relationships.  When boundaries are not acknowledged or well-maintained the result can be poor personal health, increased stress for individuals and teams, blaming and victimization.  Instead of optimizing their performance people begin manipulating others and becoming verbally or even physically aggressive.

This course will in enable you to:

• Define types of boundaries:  appropriate, loose, or rigid – and whether they are helpful or harmful.
• Identify ways you can develop healthy personal boundaries.
• Discover skills that you can develop and call upon at work to enhance a more effective application of boundaries.

In addition, you will learn how to recognize several types of boundary violating behaviors and review scripts you can apply for yourself or use with others to generate more beneficial and clear boundaries.