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Description

Participative Management: Involving Others, Deciding and Delivering Together

Involve your team in decisions without diluting the manager's accountability or slowing every timeline

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Intermediate
  • Up to 6 participants

Announcing that the team will be consulted is a commitment. If the final decision ignores the contributions received, participation becomes a decorative exercise and trust erodes faster than it would after a clearly owned top-down decision. Conversely, putting everything to the group stalls matters that called for a fast answer.

These two days are designed for experienced managers. The work focuses on selecting the right degree of participation for each decision, then on facilitating productive group sequences and communicating the trade-offs made. This programme addresses the decision-making process, whereas the agility learning path addresses how the work itself is run.

Learning objectives

  • Select the degree of participation suited to each type of decision
  • Announce the participation framework before launching the process
  • Facilitate a group sequence to generate options
  • Arbitrate between proposals and then communicate the chosen decision
  • Entrust delegated decisions to the group and monitor implementation

What makes this programme different

A selection grid for the degree of participation applied to participants' real decisions
Three group facilitation formats tested in the room
Dedicated work on communicating a decision that departs from the proposals received

Programme

1Degrees of Participation

Deciding alone, consulting, co-deciding or delegating

  • What each degree commits the manager and the team to
  • Decisions that lend themselves poorly to group treatment
  • The effects of participation that is announced and then disregarded
  • The link between participation and final accountability

2Preparing a Participative Process

Framing the question put to the group

  • Formulating a working question the group can actually address
  • Selecting participants and the time allocated
  • Announcing the non-negotiable constraints
  • Clarifying how the decision will be made

3Facilitating Group Output

Getting a team to produce during the session

  • Opening up discussion, including with quieter profiles
  • Using short formats to generate options
  • Bringing the group towards a limited number of proposals
  • Managing dominant contributors

4Deciding and Reporting Back

What happens after the contribution

  • Selecting an option while making the criteria explicit
  • Communicating a decision that departs from the group's proposals
  • Allocating implementation tasks and organising follow-up
  • Assessing what the process actually produced

Who is it for

Team managers and department heads already in post who wish to involve their teams in decision-making.

Prerequisites

Some prior experience of managing a team.

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.