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Description

Manager: Driving Everyday Innovation and Turning Ideas into Action

Create the practical conditions within your team for ideas to surface, be filtered and reach completion

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

Ideas already exist within teams but rarely reach the surface. Day-to-day pressure absorbs any room for manoeuvre, one poorly received suggestion discourages the next, and the initiatives that do survive stall for lack of time or support. The manager ends up carrying the innovation agenda alone within the department.

Two days focused on management practice: establishing a setting where making a suggestion is possible, organising short idea-generation sessions, filtering with criteria you are prepared to defend, and supporting experimentation through to a decision. The programme addresses the role of the front-line manager rather than the governance of a project portfolio.

Learning objectives

  • Identify the barriers to making suggestions within your team's way of working
  • Establish short and regular idea-generation sessions
  • Respond to an idea received with an explicit line of reasoning
  • Select the initiatives to be tested using shared criteria
  • Support an experiment through to the decision on whether to continue
  • Recognise contributions, including those that do not lead anywhere

What makes this programme different

Each participant leaves with a team ritual ready to be launched
Turning down an idea is practised in role-play and then reviewed with the group
The diagnosis focuses on how the participant's own team actually works

Programme

1Conditions for making suggestions

Understanding why ideas do not reach the surface

  • Identify the signals that discourage initiative-taking
  • Distinguish a useful mistake from a genuine failing
  • Clarify the scope of autonomy granted to the team
  • Assess your own way of operating as a manager

2Generating ideas

Short formats that fit into day-to-day work

  • Choose a format suited to the time available
  • Frame a workable opening question
  • Facilitate without steering towards your own solution
  • Establish a ritual that can be sustained over time

3Filtering and responding

Owning your choices without breaking the momentum

  • Build selection criteria that everyone is aware of
  • Respond to an idea you are not taking forward
  • Make the outcome of suggestions visible
  • Balance day-to-day urgency against exploration

4Supporting experimentation

Taking it through to a decision

  • Frame a trial with a defined scope and deadline
  • Free up time and secure the resources required
  • Follow progress without taking the subject back over
  • Close the trial and acknowledge the contribution

Who is it for

Team managers, department heads and project managers who wish to develop initiative-taking among their team members.

Prerequisites

Managing a team or leading a working group.

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.