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Description

Six Personal Development Tools: Discover, Practise and Apply

Four days to test six personal development tools and keep only those that genuinely support your day-to-day work

  • 4 days — 28 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

Personal development approaches are numerous and are most often presented in isolation. It is difficult to know which one answers your current situation: managing internal tension, clarifying priorities, listening better or expressing things more clearly. Many professionals accumulate reading without ever establishing a regular practice.

This 28-hour programme puts six complementary tools into practice over four days. Each one is presented, tested on real situations, then assessed by the participant against their own context. By the end of the programme, each participant retains two or three tools and defines how to use them as soon as they return to their role.

Learning objectives

  • Test six personal development tools on real workplace situations
  • Identify the tools suited to your own professional context
  • Apply an active listening framework in a one-to-one conversation
  • Formulate a clear request using a structured template
  • Regulate an emotional reaction through a simple breathing technique
  • Plan the integration of two tools into your daily practice

What makes this programme different

Six tools practised over four days rather than a single imposed approach
Every tool tested on a situation brought by the participant
A usage sheet written by the participant for each tool retained

Programme

1Positioning Yourself Before Choosing Your Tools

Personal starting diagnosis

  • Inventory of the workplace situations you wish to improve
  • Identifying your habitual patterns of reaction
  • Distinguishing an organisational difficulty from a relational one
  • Formulating a personal objective for the programme

2Self-Awareness Tools

Understanding how you operate

  • A framework for reading your working preferences
  • Identifying your needs and your limits
  • Spotting the beliefs that hold back action at work
  • Testing an internal message against the facts

3Emotional Regulation Tools

Managing tension in the moment

  • Recognising the physical signals of tension
  • A breathing technique that can be used in a meeting
  • Creating distance through internal reframing
  • Recovering after a difficult exchange

4Communication Tools

Listening and making yourself understood

  • Active listening and reformulation
  • Open questioning to clarify a request
  • A template for making a request or saying no
  • Constructive feedback focused on a specific behaviour

5Organisation and Follow-Up Tools

Transferring the tools into daily practice

  • Clarifying your priorities for the week
  • Breaking an objective down into short actions
  • Selecting the two tools to embed first
  • Building a personal follow-up routine

Who is it for

Anyone wishing to acquire practical tools to better manage their working relationships and personal organisation, whatever their role.

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.