Navigating Client Relationships with Effective Boundaries

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Discover how setting boundaries isn't about building walls, but about creating a solid foundation for genuine connection and a more balanced, authentic, and fulfilling life. Whether you're a freelancer, entrepreneur, or service provider, if you want to ensure better business outcomes, check out to build and maintain strong, lasting relationships with diverse clients. In this two-hour interactive workshop, you'll learn how to sharpen your approach to managing client relationships with confidence. Key learning outcomes:<ul><li>Create positive, professional rapport.</li><li>Design mutually productive collaborations.</li><li>Ensure smooth, effective communication.</li><li>Define and clearly communicate expectations. Protect your time and energy. Prevent scope creep, common pitfalls, and any party’s overextension</li><li>Enable a combination of individual growth and strengthened partnerships.</li><li>Handle challenging conversations.</li></ul> You’ll gain actionable insights into elevating your client interactions and enhancing your business relationships. This workshop is designed for anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed, overcommitted, or taken advantage of. If you struggle with saying "no," setting expectations, or prioritizing your own needs, you’ll leave with actionable strategies to create a more balanced, authentic, and empowered life—and see an immediate impact. About the instructors:

Hardy BrooklynLife coach and performance artist <a href="https://boxofrain.com/" title="https://boxofrain.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hardy Brooklyn</a> helps people considering or experiencing life transitions to discover—and start living—their authentic selves through transformational life and business coaching. He co-hosts and produces podcasts and webinars on topics including creativity and change and delivers training and workshops on a range of topics such as consent. Hardy has also served as consent monitor for many organizations and evenPerforming at multiple improv and open-mic events, including The Moth story slam, Hardy models for art photography projects and, to date, has appeared in 20+ film and television productions. An enthusiastic bicyclist and advocate for safe and sustainable transportation, he is committed to living his true, authentic self—wherever that may lead—willing to try anything from being the canvas for all-over body painting to reporting on the pros and cons of cricket-based protein bars.In guiding clients through navigating change and living authentically as their true selves, Hardy's coaching approach combines applying his: improv skills; techniques gained during his Achology Life Coach and Achology NLP Practitioner trainings; and his own personal growth. His journey continues with Transformation Happiness Life Coaching coming to his toolbox soon—with more down the road.Wearing his vibrant, quirky personality on his sleeve—if he's even wearing a sleeve!—Hardy delivers thought-provoking talks that motivate and inspire a wide range of audiences. Drawing from nearly three decades of successful entrepreneurial experience, the wisdom he’s gained through experiential learning, classes, and living his authentic self, Hardy empowers audiences to explore and pursue their own personal and professional growth.Straightforward, animated, and humorous, Hardy has an amazing ability to connect with and captivate your attention by sharing the challenges he's faced along the way to hard-won achievements—and how he's overcome and even grown from them. That is also how he helps his clients identify, face, and overcome their challenges. A Brooklyn, New York-based Eagle Scout and avid outdoorsman, Hardy and his wife have two sons.

Stan NelsonA Moving Forward and Goal Success Coach from Perth Western Australia, Stan Nelson shows individuals and groups how to achieve success through a combination of: goal setting; overcoming obstacles; breaking limiting beliefs; rewriting one's life story; and discovering one’s purpose.His positive-minded clients benefit from his skilled guidance as they take steps towards creating an extraordinary life in our challenging world—while moving up, changing roles, at a crossroads, and/or feeling stuck.In this workshop, Stan and Hardy will guide you through finding your path—and building a ladder to your next level.Starting his coaching journey in 2019 with the Life Coaching College, Stan has coached over 300 hours and is currently focused on build a prosperous practice. Born and raised in country western Australia, he came to Perth to complete secondary high school and do tertiary education. As a lifelong learner, he’s also been: training in – and teaching – martial arts and self-defense for nearly 30 years; an outdoor recreation leader; laser-tag referee; scout leader; and devotee of his own personal growth and development. He’s been married for 26 years and lives in Perth with his wife, two sons

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