Aims of the course
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Understand what healthy personal and professional boundaries look like in the workplace.
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Recognise when boundaries are clear, blurred or crossed.
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Identify their own boundaries and understand that other people’s boundaries may be different.
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Recognise how workplace relationships, hierarchy, pressure and expectations can affect boundaries.
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Understand how boundaries can gradually shift or become unclear over time.
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Develop confidence in setting and communicating boundaries clearly and respectfully.
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Learn practical ways to say no, push back or renegotiate requests without creating unnecessary conflict.
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Understand how to respect and respond appropriately to other people’s boundaries.
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Know how to respond when a boundary continues to be ignored or crossed.
Who will benefit from attending?
This course is suitable for employees, managers, team leaders and supervisors at all levels who want to develop healthier, clearer and more respectful workplace relationships.
It will be particularly valuable for people who:
- Find it difficult to say no or push back when demands become unreasonable.
- Take on too much or feel responsible for solving other people’s problems.
- Want to manage workload, time and availability more effectively.
- Need greater confidence in communicating what they are and are not comfortable with.
- Work in roles where professional and personal boundaries can become blurred.
- Manage or support others and want to establish clear, fair expectations.
- Want to recognise and respect other people’s boundaries as well as their own.
- Work in emotionally demanding, caring, customer-facing or highly collaborative environments.
