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Description

Work-Life Balance: Setting Priorities, Organising and Holding the Line

Two days to set your priorities and build workable boundaries between work and personal life

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

Work messages arrive in the evening, family commitments spill into the working day, and the two worlds overlap without any clear rule. Remote and hybrid working has removed the physical boundaries that once separated these two spheres.

This 14-hour programme does not offer a theoretical split of your time. It helps each participant clarify their priorities for the current period, identify the mechanisms that cause work to overflow, set explicit rules with colleagues and family, and then hold those rules over time despite the inevitable exceptions.

Learning objectives

  • Clarify your personal and professional priorities for the current period
  • Identify the mechanisms that cause work to spill into personal life
  • Define explicit availability rules with your professional environment
  • Organise your days while protecting non-negotiable time
  • Renegotiate a workload that has become incompatible with your commitments

What makes this programme different

Practical work on the availability rules to set with colleagues and management
Remote working and off-hours situations addressed specifically
A personal set of rules formalised and then tested through role-play

Programme

1Clarifying Your Priorities

What matters in the current period

  • Inventory of current professional and personal commitments
  • Ranking priorities for the current period
  • Identifying trade-offs made without ever being decided
  • Gap between the time you intend to spend and the time actually spent

2Understanding the Overflow

Why work spills over

  • Out-of-hours requests and automatic responses
  • Effect of remote working on the boundary between the two spheres
  • Demands we place on ourselves beyond what is actually expected
  • Role of digital tools in the blurring of boundaries

3Setting the Rules

With colleagues and family

  • Phrasing availability rules that others can understand
  • Communicating these rules to your team and your management
  • Agreements to reach with your family and personal circle
  • Handling exceptions without cancelling the rule

4Holding the Line Over Time

Organisation and renegotiation

  • Protecting non-negotiable slots in your calendar
  • Warning signs that your balance is deteriorating
  • Preparing a workload renegotiation
  • Adjusting the rules as periods change

Who is it for

Employees and managers dealing with open-ended working hours, remote working arrangements or significant personal commitments.

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.