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Description

Time Management: Analysing Your Days, Setting Priorities and Organising Your Workload

A short programme to regain control of your schedule and stop chasing urgent demands

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

Days fill up on their own. Meetings, calls and last-minute requests absorb most of the available time, while substantive files slip from one week to the next. Activity is intense, yet the sense of real progress remains low and the workload eventually affects the quality of the work delivered.

A short programme, delivered in person or virtually, designed to assess how your time is actually used and correct what can be corrected. You analyse how your days are distributed. You learn to arbitrate between competing requests and to organise your workload across the week. You leave with personal rules adapted to your role and to your constraints.

Learning objectives

  • Analyse how your time is actually distributed across a typical week
  • Identify the personal and organisational causes of fragmentation
  • Arbitrate between requests according to their importance and deadline
  • Organise your workload across the week while allowing for unforeseen events

What makes this programme different

A diagnosis based on your own schedule over recent weeks
Personal rules formulated and tested during the session
Available in person and virtually to suit your constraints

Programme

1Diagnosing How You Use Your Time

Seeing where the day goes

  • Recording your actual schedule over one week
  • Breakdown between substantive work, reactive work and lost time
  • Identifying interruptions and where they come from
  • Your personal relationship with time and the habits that weigh on it

2Arbitrating Between Requests

Not everything can be a priority

  • Importance and urgency criteria applied to your own files
  • Handling requests that arrive during the day
  • Delegating and postponing with clear justification
  • Ways of saying no without damaging the working relationship

3Organising Your Week

A schedule that withstands the unexpected

  • Placing tasks according to your most effective times of day
  • Reserving protected slots for substantive work
  • Keeping margin to absorb unforeseen events
  • Weekly preparation review and daily adjustment

Who is it for

Staff members, technical specialists, administrative professionals and managers seeking greater control over their working schedule.

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.