Improving Your Boundary Management

Once you have an awareness of your own style, you can start thinking about how to make adjustments so that the positives of your boundary-management approach outweigh the negatives. The following five-step approach can help you navigate work and personal boundaries:

Step 1: Identify What Is Not Working for You

First, identify what you want to change about the way you manage work-life boundaries. What aspect of boundary management is not working for you?

Difficulty managing work-life boundaries typically centers on one or more of the following four issues: time management, boundary permeability and control, managing expectations effectively, and transitions between roles. Each of these issues is described below. ...

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