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Description

Time Management for Managers: Setting Priorities, Delegating and Protecting Leadership Time

Recovering time to lead your team when day-to-day requests already fill the diary

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

Managers face two flows of work: their own deliverables and everything the team sends back to them. Requests arrive continuously, other people's urgencies become their own, and substantive work slips to the evening. By the end of the week, postponed one-to-ones and pending decisions have piled up.

Two days to arbitrate between individual output and the leadership role, delegate without creating dependency, manage incoming requests and protect time slots that genuinely hold. Each participant leaves with a reworked standard week and two delegations prepared.

Learning objectives

  • Analyse how your time is actually split between individual output and team leadership
  • Set priorities when several urgent requests arrive at once
  • Delegate an activity by defining the level of autonomy and the follow-up
  • Manage requests from the team without becoming unavailable
  • Build a standard week that protects leadership time

What makes this programme different

A quantified review of your own diary over recent weeks
Two delegations prepared in session, down to the words to use with the employee
A standard week reworked around the real constraints of your department

Programme

1Where a Manager's Time Actually Goes

Measure before acting

  • Distinguish delivery time, leadership time and decision time
  • Analyse your diary over recent weeks
  • Identify activities kept out of habit or comfort
  • The cost of interruptions in a manager's day

2Setting Priorities

Deciding also what will not be done

  • Sort by importance to the department rather than by who is asking
  • Handle two competing urgencies coming from two directions
  • Renegotiate a deadline with senior management
  • Own and announce what is being dropped

3Delegating for Real

Transferring the activity and the decision

  • Choose what to delegate and to whom
  • Set the level of autonomy and the control points
  • Conduct the delegation conversation
  • Resist taking back control when the outcome differs from your own approach

4Protecting Your Time

Available without being constantly interrupted

  • Organise team requests through dedicated slots and routines
  • Respond to a request without solving the problem in the employee's place
  • Team meetings: frequency, duration and usefulness
  • Build a standard week that holds

Who is it for

Team managers · department heads and supervisors leading staff on a daily basis

Prerequisites

Currently leading a team or taking up a management role

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.