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Managing Chaos: Tools to Set Priorities and Make Decisions Under Pressure

Set priorities and learn to manage and leverage chaos in your workplace.

The Key Issues

As a manager, it can be tough to stay focused and prioritize when unexpected disruptions come your way. In this programme, you’ll learn how to manage chaos, set clear goals, and handle shifting priorities with confidence.

Priority setting

Time management

Decision-making

Key Competences

Creativity

Managing interruptions

Influencing

The Right Programme for You

If you are a business professional facing expanding workloads, shifting priorities, complex organizational dynamics, organizational restructuring and increased uncertainty, this programme is right for you.

Highlights

Gain hands-on experience applying tools to set priorities and adjust to changing demands.

Practice techniques for analysing and resolving problems and learn to strategically communicate your solutions.

Learn, Practice and Use

Identify positive outcomes from chaotic environments
Clarify and leverage or eliminate chaos within your control
Set priorities for all your activities
Focus and act decisively when priorities shift
Use tools to problem-solve and select a course of action
Manage interruptions and conflicts with greater ease

Communicate your needs strategically
Leverage resources to help you tackle challenging situations
Generate creative solutions to chaotic problems
Create a daily action plan to stay focused
Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

Managing Chaos: Tools to Set Priorities and Make Decisions Under Pressure is a 2 day hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

Five Programme Modules

1 | Asking Key Questions

Describe the effects of change on managers and employees.
Define personal and group goals in a dynamic environment.
Understand how to get a grip on a chaotic environment through asking key questions.
• Employ the Problem Statement and Gap Analysis as tools to identify the problem, address it, and articulate it to others.

2 | Priority-Planning and Decision-Making Tools

Examine and select tools for planning priorities.
Identify root causes of problems or issues.
Manage competing priorities.
Generate creative solutions to problems.
Organize ideas to firmly grasp a problem’s critical components.

3 | Planning Your Work

Use the Priority Grid to apply against your weekly tasks.
Create a Weekly Work Plan for completion of the most important priorities.
Implement best practices for time management.
Manage interruptions and distractions.

4 | Influencing and Communication Skills

Identify your communication’s purpose.
Understand your audience.
Craft your message to appeal to your audience.
Implement best practices for improving your influencing communications.
Avoid team miscommunications.

5 | Action Planning

Reassess the source(s) of chaos you identified.
Evaluate and complete your Action Plan.
Present your Action Plan to a partner for feedback.

Faculty

Bettina
Hausmann

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18 Aug – 19 Aug 2025

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€2,295

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08 Sep, 09:00 – 12:00CET
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09 Sep, 14:00 – 17:00CET

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Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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Managing Chaos: Tools to Set Priorities and Make Decisions Under Pressure

The Key Issues

Priority setting

Time management

Decision-making

Key Competences​

Creativity

Managing interruptions

Influencing

The Right Programme for You

Highlights

Practice techniques for analysing and resolving problems and learn to strategically communicate your solutions.

Learn, Practice and Use

Programme Details

Five Programme Modules

Faculty

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

Upcoming Programmes

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Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

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