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Description

Professional Agility: Embracing Change, Deciding Quickly and Adjusting Your Methods

Keep delivering when priorities shift and the working framework changes every quarter

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

A reorganisation, then a new tool, then priorities revised mid-quarter: the framework changes faster than working habits. Some people adjust and move forward. Others exhaust themselves waiting for a return to normal that never comes. Flexibility is not an innate quality: it rests on working reflexes that can be trained.

Two days to identify your own resistance to change, decide with incomplete information, reorganise your work when priorities move and preserve a stable foundation. Each participant works on two changes genuinely under way in their role.

Learning objectives

  • Identify your habitual reactions to an imposed change
  • Distinguish what is imposed from what remains within your control
  • Decide and act with incomplete information
  • Reorganise your work plan when priorities change mid-course
  • Maintain the support points that allow you to sustain effort over time

What makes this programme different

Work carried out on two changes genuinely under way in participants' roles
Decision-making exercises under time pressure and with partial information
A written personal response plan for the following three months

Programme

1Your Reactions to Change

Understanding what holds you back

  • The stages people go through when a change is imposed
  • Your anchor points: habits, tools and professional reference points
  • What falls under your control, your influence or neither
  • The cost of waiting for a return to normal

2Deciding on Shifting Ground

Moving forward without all the information

  • Distinguishing reversible decisions from committing decisions
  • Setting the level of information sufficient to decide
  • Testing on a small scale before rolling out
  • Owning and correcting a decision taken too early

3Reorganising Your Work Quickly

When priorities change mid-week

  • Reviewing your commitments and identifying what has to go
  • Renegotiating a deadline or a scope without damaging the relationship
  • Starting again from a simple plan rather than patching up the old one
  • Informing stakeholders of the change of direction

4Sustaining Effort Over Time

Flexible does not mean limitless

  • Identifying your stable foundation: rhythm, method and limits
  • Spotting signs of saturation in yourself and in the team
  • Articulating to your management what cannot be absorbed
  • Maintaining your skills to stay mobile

Who is it for

Experienced professionals, managers and project managers facing frequent changes in priorities, organisation or tools

Prerequisites

Holding a role exposed to regular changes in organisation, priorities or tools

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.