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Description

Time Management: Prioritising, Planning and Delivering on Commitments

Take back control of your diary and fit what truly matters into an overloaded working day

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

Overload is rarely solved by working faster. It is solved by deciding better: what counts, what can wait, what can be delegated and what must be declined.

Two days to make an honest diagnosis of your own organisation, adopt proven prioritisation methods and leave with a planning system that holds up when the unexpected happens.

Learning objectives

  • Analyse how your time is actually spent and identify your main losses
  • Distinguish the urgent from the important and arbitrate your priorities
  • Build a realistic and sustainable weekly plan
  • Manage requests
  • interruptions and mental load
  • Decline requests and renegotiate deadlines in an acceptable manner

What makes this programme different

Personalised diagnosis based on a typical week from each participant
Methods tested on the real files participants bring to the session
An individual organisation plan formalised before you leave

Programme

1Diagnosing Your Own Organisation

Measure before you correct

  • Recording how your time is actually spent over one week
  • Spotting low value-added activities
  • Identifying your personal sources of distraction
  • The laws of time: Pareto
  • Parkinson
  • Illich
  • Carlson

2Arbitrating Your Priorities

Deciding what moves forward and what waits

  • Urgency and importance: the Eisenhower matrix and its limits
  • Linking tasks to your objectives and scope of responsibility
  • Handling competing requests from several stakeholders
  • Explicit arbitration criteria you can stand behind

3Planning and Protecting Your Time

A system that holds despite the unexpected

  • Weekly planning in blocks with built-in buffer time
  • Grouping tasks of a similar nature
  • Managing interruptions and instant requests
  • Digital tools: what they solve and what they make worse

4Setting Limits and Bringing Others On Board

Saying no without damaging the relationship

  • Renegotiating a deadline
  • a scope or a quality level
  • Declining a request to a senior manager
  • a client or a colleague with sound reasoning
  • Delegating for real: instructions
  • autonomy
  • control
  • Establishing your new working rules with your team

Who is it for

Managers · project managers · support functions · administrative and executive assistants · independent professionals and owners of small businesses facing a fragmented workload.

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.