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Description

Managing Alongside Your Technical Role: Balancing Delivery, Leadership and Priorities

Lead a team without stepping away from your technical role, and hold both positions without setting one against the other

  • 4 days — 28 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • All levels
  • Up to 6 participants

Many team leaders supervise a team while still delivering their own technical workload. Management then comes second to operational urgencies: reviews postponed, team meetings cancelled, decisions taken in corridors. In the end, the team operates without a clearly identified lead.

Four days to embed management into an already demanding role: identifying the management actions that cannot be skipped, building them into your own organisation, holding short but regular conversations and handing over part of your technical activity. The programme starts from the real constraints of each participant.

Learning objectives

  • Distinguish essential management actions from those that can wait
  • Build management time into an already demanding schedule
  • Hold short follow-up conversations with each team member
  • Delegate part of your technical activity to your team
  • Decide between an operational urgency and a request from the team

What makes this programme different

The programme starts from each participant's actual workload rather than a theoretical job description
A typical week integrating management time is built during the session
Short follow-up conversations are practised in their real format and then refined

Programme

1Two Roles, One Diary

Positioning the management share of your role

  • Define what genuinely falls under team leadership within your activity
  • Identify the management actions you systematically postpone
  • Measure the time actually available
  • Clarify your responsibilities with your own line manager

2The Essential Actions

What cannot be dropped

  • Identify the minimum routines to maintain
  • Give an instruction and feedback within short time slots
  • Track activity without multiplying reporting sheets
  • Retain visibility over the team's workload

3Short and Regular Conversations

Staying connected with each individual

  • Structure a follow-up conversation lasting a few minutes
  • Prepare the topics to be covered before the discussion
  • Give feedback on a piece of completed work
  • Address a difficulty before it becomes entrenched

4Handing Over Your Technical Activity

Delegating to free up time

  • Identify the technical tasks that can be handed over
  • Support the skills development of the person taking over
  • Set the level of autonomy and the checkpoints
  • Accept a result achieved differently from your own way

5Making Daily Trade-Offs

Choosing between operational urgency and the team

  • Prioritise between a client request and a request from the team
  • Postpone or decline while explaining your criteria
  • Protect management time in your diary
  • Build your typical week and hold to it

Who is it for

Technical leads, project managers and subject-matter experts who supervise a team alongside their own operational activity.

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge required

Dates & locations

24 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.