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Description

Balance and Health at Work: Reading Your Signals, Managing Your Workload and Recovering

Act on your organisation and your limits before fatigue becomes a lasting condition

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

Fragmented days, constant requests, a blurred line between professional and personal life: many employees keep going by drawing on their reserves, without noticing the moment when fatigue stops being temporary. General advice on wellbeing is not enough when the workload itself is never discussed.

Two days to take stock of how you actually operate and regain control: recognising your warning signals, analysing your real workload, setting limits you can sustain and organising recovery. The programme addresses each participant's personal balance rather than the management of an organisation-wide initiative.

Learning objectives

  • Identify your physical
  • emotional and cognitive signals of overload
  • Analyse your real workload and the sources of fragmentation
  • Set limits and put a prioritisation request to your line manager
  • Organise recovery time during the day and across the week
  • Identify the internal and external resources available when difficulties arise

What makes this programme different

Each participant completes a personal workload log for a typical week before the session
Prioritisation requests are drafted and then tested through role-play
A personal balance plan is written down with a scheduled review date

Programme

1Understanding your own fatigue mechanics

Telling useful tension apart from exhaustion that takes hold

  • Stress mechanisms and the phases of the body's response
  • Physical
  • emotional and cognitive signals to monitor
  • The role of sleep
  • nutrition and physical activity
  • Common misconceptions about resilience and performance

2Analysing your real workload

Putting facts behind the feeling of being overwhelmed

  • Prescribed workload
  • actual workload and perceived workload
  • Interruptions
  • digital requests and fragmented time
  • Invisible tasks and preparation work
  • Identifying the critical periods of the year

3Setting limits and negotiating

Making workload a subject you can raise with your manager

  • Describing an overload in factual terms
  • Requesting prioritisation and proposing alternatives
  • Assertive refusal and negotiated postponement
  • Use of digital tools outside working hours

4Recovering and lasting

Embedding routines that hold up during busy periods

  • Micro-recovery during the day and genuine breaks
  • Organising the start and the end of the working day
  • Internal resources and health professionals available
  • Personal plan and review point

Who is it for

Managerial and non-managerial employees in all sectors who wish to protect their health and their balance in a demanding working environment.

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.