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Description

Self-Awareness in Teams: Identify, Understand and Cooperate Day to Day

Three days to understand how you operate within a team and cooperate with very different colleagues

  • 3 days — 21 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

Within a team, the same irritants keep resurfacing: a colleague who decides without consulting anyone, another who wants to validate everything, discussions that stall on method rather than substance. Everyone attributes this friction to other people's personalities and no one examines their own share in how the group works.

This 21-hour programme focuses on day-to-day cooperation. Over three days, each participant identifies their own way of operating within a team and their unspoken expectations, then works through common cooperation situations. The work remains anchored in real team situations rather than in the exploration of personal history.

Learning objectives

  • Describe your usual way of operating in collective work
  • Identify your unspoken expectations of colleagues
  • Recognise a colleague's operating style from observable facts
  • Adapt the way you collaborate with a profile opposite to your own
  • Address a team disagreement without making it personal

What makes this programme different

The situations worked on are real team irritants brought by participants
Sub-groups deliberately made up of opposing operating styles
A cooperation agreement drafted for two identified colleagues

Programme

1Your Operating Style Within a Team

What I bring and what I expect

  • Identifying how you approach a collective task
  • Identifying your unspoken expectations of others
  • Your relationship with time, method and decision-making
  • Group feedback on your observed contribution

2Understanding How Others Operate

Observe rather than interpret

  • Distinguishing observed behaviour from assumed intention
  • Identifying the other person's needs in shared work
  • The effects of labelling on the relationship
  • Questions that allow a hypothesis to be tested

3Cooperating Day to Day

Allocation and flow of information

  • Clarifying roles and responsibilities
  • Rules for sharing information within the team
  • Asking for help and accepting a contribution
  • Handling the tasks no one wants to take on

4Addressing Disagreements

On facts, not on people

  • Expressing disagreement within a group
  • Listening to an opposing viewpoint without interrupting
  • Seeking a solution acceptable to the team
  • Escalating to the manager when deadlock persists

5Committing to the Collective

From intentions to shared rules

  • Formalising shared ways of working
  • Individual commitment to two behaviours to change
  • Collective follow-up of the commitments made
  • Preparing a conversation with two colleagues on return to work

Who is it for

Team members, project managers and professionals working at the interface with other departments.

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.