Description
Tailored In-House Coaching: Framing, Designing and Evaluating the Engagement
Design a team coaching engagement that starts from the team's real situations rather than from a catalogue
- 2 days — 14 h
- In-person or virtual
- Intermediate
- Up to 6 participants
Requests for coaching support often arrive in vague terms: the team lacks cohesion, people have stopped communicating. Behind these formulations lie disagreements over roles, decisions that were never settled, or workload that is unevenly shared. Launching an offsite without a diagnosis treats the symptom only.
This short programme, delivered in-person or virtually, equips you to design a tailored coaching engagement. You conduct the framing interview with the sponsor, turn an unclear request into a workable objective, select the appropriate formats and define the indicators that will show whether the engagement produced an effect.
Learning objectives
- Conduct the framing interview with the sponsor and reformulate the request
- Distinguish what belongs to team coaching from what belongs to management
- Select working formats suited to the maturity of the group
- Establish a confidentiality framework accepted by participants
- Define verifiable outcome indicators to be reviewed at the end of the engagement
What makes this programme different
Programme
1Clarifying the request
What the sponsor says and what the sponsor expects
- Decoding a request expressed in terms of cohesion
- Identifying the sponsor, the budget holder and the beneficiaries
- Distinguishing relational difficulty from an organisational problem
- Formalising a three-way coaching agreement
2Designing the engagement
Choosing the formats before choosing the tools
- Sequencing the engagement and spacing out the sessions
- Balancing group sessions and one-to-one interviews
- Adapting the design to in-person and virtual delivery
- Setting the confidentiality framework and the group ground rules
3Delivering and evaluating
Holding the framework and reporting back
- Managing tensions and silences during sessions
- Handling resistance and repeated absences
- Measuring effects against the indicators defined upfront
- Organising the report-back to the sponsor without betraying the group
Who is it for
Human resources managers and team leaders, as well as internal consultants responsible for designing or steering a team coaching engagement.
Prerequisites
Experience of leading a team or of running coaching and support initiatives.
Dates & locations
36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.
November 2026
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10 – 11 November 2026 2 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
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24 – 25 November 2026 2 days
Dubai In-person
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24 – 25 November 2026 2 days
Online Virtual classroom
December 2026
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15 – 16 December 2026 2 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
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29 – 30 December 2026 2 days
Dubai In-person
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29 – 30 December 2026 2 days
Online Virtual classroom
January 2027
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12 – 13 January 2027 2 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
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26 – 27 January 2027 2 days
Dubai In-person
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26 – 27 January 2027 2 days
Online Virtual classroom
February 2027
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2 – 3 February 2027 2 days
Dubai In-person
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2 – 3 February 2027 2 days
Online Virtual classroom
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3 – 4 February 2027 2 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
March 2027
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24 – 25 March 2027 2 days
Dubai In-person
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24 – 25 March 2027 2 days
Online Virtual classroom
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31 March – 1 April 2027 2 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
April 2027
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7 – 8 April 2027 2 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
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22 – 26 April 2027 5 days
Dubai In-person
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22 – 26 April 2027 5 days
Online Virtual classroom
May 2027
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4 – 5 May 2027 2 days
Dubai In-person
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4 – 5 May 2027 2 days
Online Virtual classroom
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24 – 25 May 2027 2 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
June 2027
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14 – 15 June 2027 2 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
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28 – 29 June 2027 2 days
Dubai In-person
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28 – 29 June 2027 2 days
Online Virtual classroom
September 2027
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8 – 9 September 2027 2 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
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23 – 27 September 2027 5 days
Dubai In-person
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23 – 27 September 2027 5 days
Online Virtual classroom
October 2027
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12 – 13 October 2027 2 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
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26 – 27 October 2027 2 days
Dubai In-person
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26 – 27 October 2027 2 days
Online Virtual classroom
November 2027
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4 – 8 November 2027 5 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
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22 – 23 November 2027 2 days
Dubai In-person
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22 – 23 November 2027 2 days
Online Virtual classroom
December 2027
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14 – 15 December 2027 2 days
Abu Dhabi In-person
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28 – 29 December 2027 2 days
Dubai In-person
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28 – 29 December 2027 2 days
Online Virtual classroom
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.

