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Description

Management Fundamentals: Taking Up the Role and Driving Action

The essential reference points for stepping into a management role and delivering results with your team

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

Management is not improvised, and it is not simply an extension of the technical expertise that earned the promotion. It is a profession with its own practices: setting direction, delegating, correcting course, recognising effort.

Two days to establish the fundamentals of the role, practise on the situations that genuinely cause difficulty, and leave with a management posture that is chosen rather than endured.

Learning objectives

  • Position your role, responsibilities and room for manoeuvre
  • Adapt your approach to each team member's level of autonomy
  • Set clear objectives and monitor their achievement
  • Conduct everyday management conversations: delegation, course correction, feedback
  • Sustain motivation and team cohesion day to day

What makes this programme different

Practice based on the real situations brought by participants
A simple framework that can be applied as soon as you return to your role
A formalised individual development plan by the end of the session

Programme

1Positioning Yourself in the Management Role

What the organisation genuinely expects

  • The three registers: delivering, organising, developing people
  • Moving from technical expertise to responsibility for a team
  • Decision-making scope, duty of loyalty, area of autonomy
  • Identifying the explicit and implicit expectations of senior management

2Adapting Your Management to Individuals

The same gesture does not produce the same effect

  • Assessing autonomy and motivation by activity, not by person
  • The four styles: directing, coaching, participative, delegating
  • Common errors: over-controlling the autonomous, abandoning the beginner
  • Adjusting your style as the team member develops

3Setting Objectives and Delegating

From intention to result

  • Framing an objective that is verifiable and accepted
  • Distinguishing delegation, task allocation and offloading
  • Defining the level of autonomy and the control points
  • Following up without hounding: rhythm and format of checkpoints

4Regulating: Feedback, Recognition and Course Correction

The conversations we postpone

  • Structuring feedback around observable facts
  • Recognising work delivered without falling into empty ritual
  • Conducting a course-correction conversation: preparation, wording, commitment, follow-up
  • Addressing tension before it becomes a conflict

Who is it for

Newly appointed managers · managers in post who have had no initial management training · specialists moving into team leadership.

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.