{"id":44960,"date":"2023-10-20T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/how-do-i-stop-my-clients-from-coming-to-my-house-for-unexpected-meetings-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:40:01","slug":"how-do-i-stop-my-clients-from-coming-to-my-house-for-unexpected-meetings-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/how-do-i-stop-my-clients-from-coming-to-my-house-for-unexpected-meetings-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I stop my clients from coming to my house for unexpected meetings? – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
I had a rather awkward situation a few weeks ago where a client came around to my house for an unexpected meeting.<\/b><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I had a meeting with her there a few days previously, but didn\u2019t make it clear that she couldn\u2019t just pop over when she wanted, as it\u2019s my home.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Embarrassingly, I wasn\u2019t exactly dressed for a work situation at the time and had to hide in the kitchen. How can I ensure this doesn\u2019t happen again?<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Clients can easily confuse initial contacts that go well as an invitation to treat the relationship as a personal right of access at any time that they feel the need for support or encouragement.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Equally, many home-based business operators find it difficult to establish boundaries between corporate and personal space.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As I indicate in my book There\u2019s No Work Place Like Home<\/i> (p.114), it is important to start by knowing yourself and how you work best over a long period of time. Identify work schedules and make them clear to your clients so that your terms and conditions are made available at your initial meetings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To avoid a repetition of the reported incidents where this boundary has been overstepped, there are a number of protocols that will ensure that all parties are clear as to the degree of access:<\/p>\n I had a rather awkward situation a few weeks ago where a client came around to my house for an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n