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Description

Organisation and Productivity: Planning, Prioritising and Delivering on Commitments

Regaining control of your working day when incoming requests dictate the order of the work

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

The day fills up with other people's urgent requests while substantive files slip back week after week. You work hard and finish the week with the feeling that nothing has genuinely moved forward. The issue is not the volume of work but the absence of clear criteria for deciding what comes first.

Two days to put in place a simple, sustainable organisation system: gathering all your tasks in one place, sorting them by real value, protecting blocks of focused working time and handling interruptions without giving way to every request. Each participant builds their own system during the programme and tests it over the following week.

Learning objectives

  • Analyse how your time is actually spent over one week
  • Distinguish the urgent from the important in order to arbitrate between tasks
  • Plan your week while reserving blocks of focused working time
  • Handle interruptions and last-minute requests
  • Track your own commitments and those of your counterparts

What makes this programme different

A personal time-use diagnostic carried out during the session
An organisation system built and tested over the two days
Solutions developed on the blocking situations brought by participants

Programme

1Seeing Where Your Time Goes

Diagnosis before method

  • Recording your activities over a typical week
  • Identifying imposed time versus chosen time
  • Identifying your energy peaks during the day
  • Measuring the cost of interruptions and fragmented work

2Sorting and Prioritising

Choosing before acting

  • Gathering all your tasks into a single collection point
  • Distinguishing urgency from importance
  • Breaking a heavy file down into workable tasks
  • Deciding what you will not do
  • Negotiating a priority with your line manager

3Planning Your Week

Protecting focused work

  • Building a typical week with protected time blocks
  • Estimating the real duration of a task
  • Grouping tasks of the same nature
  • Keeping a margin for the unexpected
  • Adjusting your plan during the week

4Making It Last

Interruptions and commitments

  • Handling a request without abandoning the task in hand
  • Formulating a reasoned refusal or a counter-proposal
  • Bringing order to the way you process your inbox
  • Tracking your commitments and following up with others
  • Holding a weekly review point

Who is it for

This programme is intended for anyone managing multiple files, as well as for support functions and front-line managers.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

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.