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Description

The Manager as Leader: Assess Your Six Core Capabilities and Move to Action

A one-day workshop to benchmark your leadership practices and select two capabilities to develop

  • 1 day — 7 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Intermediate
  • Up to 6 participants

Experienced managers know the tools of management but rarely have a clear picture of their own leadership practices. They can run a meeting without knowing whether they are setting a direction the team can read. Feedback on how they lead is infrequent and seldom specific.

This is a one-day workshop built around six capabilities of the manager as leader. You benchmark yourself on each one using real situations and feedback from the group. You identify the two capabilities whose improvement would have the greatest effect on your team, then you practise those two capabilities.

Learning objectives

  • Benchmark your practices against six key capabilities of the manager as leader
  • Gather and make use of group feedback on your own situations
  • Select the two priority capabilities in light of your context
  • Practise these capabilities on situations brought by participants
  • Formalise a development plan with observable indicators

What makes this programme different

Self-assessment tested against feedback from peer managers on real situations
Workshop format with no lengthy lectures and most of the time spent producing work
A development plan narrowed to two capabilities and three dated actions

Programme

1Six Capabilities and Where You Stand

Benchmarking Yourself Against Facts

  • Setting direction, deciding, communicating, developing, mobilising and role-modelling
  • How each capability shows up concretely in day-to-day work
  • Self-assessment based on situations experienced over recent months
  • Comparing your self-assessment with feedback from other participants

2Choosing Your Two Priorities

Concentrating the Effort

  • Expected effect of each capability on your team and your context
  • Identifying over-used capabilities and neglected ones
  • Criteria for choosing between quick wins and deeper development
  • Framing an observable development objective

3Practising and Embedding

From Diagnosis to Practice

  • Practice on situations brought by participants
  • Structured feedback on what worked and what was missing
  • Actions to launch as early as the following week
  • Indicators to verify progress three months on

Who is it for

Experienced managers with team responsibility and senior staff wishing to take stock of their leadership practices.

Prerequisites

At least two years in a management role.

Dates & locations

36 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.