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Description

Responsible Leadership: Living Your Commitments, Deciding and Bringing Your Team With You

Two days to align your day-to-day management practices with the commitments your organisation states publicly

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

Organisations set out commitments on workplace wellbeing, inclusion and environmental impact. On the ground, managers have to translate them into concrete decisions, often under pressure of deadlines and results. The gap between stated intentions and actual practice is eventually noticed by teams.

This 14-hour programme focuses on the behaviours of the responsible manager. Participants clarify their commitments, examine the trade-offs they actually make, work on leading by example, listening and transparency, then prepare to carry difficult decisions in front of a team. The work is based on situations brought by the participants themselves.

Learning objectives

  • Articulate the commitments you intend to uphold in your management role
  • Identify the gaps between your stated commitments and the trade-offs you actually make
  • Make a trade-off while making the criteria applied explicit
  • Receive disagreement expressed by a member of your team
  • Announce a difficult decision without disguising it
  • Commit to two changes in practice and organise their follow-up

What makes this programme different

A review of the trade-offs each participant has genuinely made in recent months
Difficult decision announcements prepared and then delivered in front of the group
A formalised commitment to practice, reviewed by peers

Programme

1Clarifying Your Commitments

What you intend to uphold as a manager

  • Expressing your management principles in observable terms
  • Expectations voiced by teams and by the organisation
  • Distinguishing commitments you can sustain from commitments that are merely for show
  • Effects of consistency on team trust

2Examining Your Trade-Offs

Between stated intent and actual practice

  • Reviewing decisions made over recent months
  • Identifying the criteria actually applied
  • Handling situations where constraints took over
  • Making criteria explicit to the team

3Listening and Taking Ownership

Everyday leadership posture

  • Receiving disagreement without closing down the discussion
  • Acknowledging a mistake in front of your team
  • Being transparent about what cannot be disclosed
  • Handling weak signals raised by team members

4Sustaining Momentum Over Time

From principle to embedded practice

  • Translating commitments into team operating rules
  • Involving team members in decisions that concern them
  • Following up on commitments made in front of the team
  • Selecting two changes in practice to initiate

Who is it for

Team managers, department heads and project managers seeking to develop their leadership practices.

Prerequisites

Hold a management or team leadership 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.