Hold the Line: Creating and Maintaining Boundaries in Your Small Business (Webinar)
Boundaries aren’t walls, they’re the foundation of a healthy, functional workplace. For small business owners, the line between professional and personal is often blurry by design: you know your employees, you care about them, and you’ve built something together. That closeness is a strength. But without clear boundaries, it quietly becomes a liability for your culture, your authority, and your own wellbeing. This session reframes boundaries not as rejection or rigidity, but as one of the most respectful things a business owner can offer their team (minus the guilt).
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Utilize the Boundary Audit Worksheet to identify where personal and professional lines have blurred in their business and what it’s costing them.
- Apply the Boundary Language Guide to communicate limits clearly and respectfully, using scripts for the most common small business scenarios.
- Develop a Workplace Boundaries Policy Framework to formalize expectations around time, communication, roles, and relationships in writing.
- Utilize the Role Clarity Map to reduce boundary violations that stem from unclear responsibilities and overlapping expectations.
- Apply the Boundary Conversation Guide to hold the line with confidence when limits are tested without damaging the relationship or their authority.
- Use the Personal Limits Self-Assessment to recognize where their own tendencies, people-pleasing, over-availability, conflict avoidance are undermining the boundaries they set.
Registration: $99 WEDC waives registration fee for qualifying small businesses.
You must meet one of the requirements to apply for this:
- Small Business: An owner, employee, or staff member of a WI-based business currently operating (no pre-venture) as a for-profit with less than 500 employees.
- MSBB Recipient: An owner, employee, or staff member of an organization that received a Main Street Bounceback Grant in 2021 or 2022.
If you have any questions about this waived opportunity, please email the UW-Stevens Point Small Business Development Center at uwspce-sbdc@uwsp.edu.
Click here for information and registration on the SBDC website.