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Description

Manager’s Organisation: Setting Priorities, Protecting Your Time and Streamlining Meetings

Regain control of an overloaded diary and free up time genuinely devoted to managing your team

  • 0.43 days — 3 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

Days fragmented by constant requests, back-to-back meetings, substantive work pushed to the evening: the manager ends up executing instead of steering. Important but non-urgent matters remain on hold while the team waits for decisions and trade-offs.

Three hours in a virtual classroom to rebuild your organisation: sorting activities according to their managerial value, protecting blocks of focused work, reducing the number and length of the meetings you convene, then handling incoming requests without losing contact with the team.

Learning objectives

  • Analyse how your time is actually distributed across a typical week
  • Rank your activities by managerial value and hand over the remainder
  • Protect blocks of focused work and dedicated time with your team
  • Reduce the length and number of the meetings you convene

What makes this programme different

The diagnosis is based on each participant's actual diary from the past week
Each participant's recurring meetings are reviewed and then resized
Every participant leaves with a rebuilt typical week, with dates set

Programme

1Diary Diagnosis

Seeing where the time actually goes

  • Log the activities of the past week
  • Distinguish delivery time from management time
  • Identify recurring interruptions and where they come from
  • Measure the time spent interacting with the team

2Priorities and Handover

Deciding what you will not do yourself

  • Rank activities according to their managerial value
  • Identify what can be handed over and to whom
  • Say no or postpone with an internal counterpart
  • Schedule substantive work in protected time blocks

3Meetings and Incoming Requests

Streamlining without losing touch with the team

  • Cancel, merge or shorten recurring meetings
  • Frame the agenda and the decision expected
  • Organise the channels through which the team reaches you
  • Maintain short, regular availability slots

Who is it for

Managers whose diaries are saturated by meetings and day-to-day requests.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Dates & locations

12 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.