The Essentials: Setting and Maintaining Boundaries

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We all need to set boundaries, even in the most structured jobs, because work has its way of encroaching on the rest of our life. Ashley, a senior analyst for the federal government, recently shifted to a schedule that helps her do her most important work and have some alone time before her family gets home. Now she’s trying to figure out how to further minimize interruptions, deal with slow and busy stretches, and get out of unproductive meetings. Amy G and executive coach Melody Wilding talk through adjustments Ashley can make and things she can say to achieve those goals. They also offer strategies for how to communicate your set new limits with colleagues and when and discuss how to hold the line when your boundaries inevitably get tested.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:23.0	slash Women at Work.
0:25.0	You're listening to Women at Work
0:30.0	You're listening to Women at Work
0:32.0	from Harvard Business Review. I'm Amy Gallo.
0:35.0	In this series, The Essentials, Amy B and I cover key career skills by bringing together
0:45.8	experts on those skills and audience members of ours who are looking to get better at them.
0:51.3	The thing we like about grounding these episodes in the specifics of
0:54.9	individual women's experiences is how it makes management principles less
0:59.7	theoretical and practical advice more realistic.
1:04.0	Not only for that one woman participating in the conversation,
1:07.7	but also for listeners in all sorts of industries.
1:11.6	Ashley Chafitz works as a senior analyst for the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
1:16.5	leading large research projects, mainly focused on school meals. The job is both
1:21.6	flexible and structured, flexible in ways that she'll explain in a bit,
1:27.0	structured in that she has to set and stick to a schedule.
1:30.0	She signs on and off at the same times nearly every day.
1:34.0	And because it's a federal job, she's not allowed to have government email or any other work messages or materials on her personal devices.
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