Rigorous Planning

Strategies & Skills for Creating a Matrix Management Culture

An Introductory Two Day Workshop into the Matrix Mindset

Providing the core skills and strategies to design, create and implement a matrix management structure and culture within a variety of business organisations.

This Workshop focuses upon the core strategies that you can use to move from a traditional functional or hierarchical to a matrix organisation.   The journey to shaping and building a Matrix culture and structure requires significant planning and an innovative ‘what if’ element of scenario planning.  There is no easy route – but there are steps and techniques that can be used to make the transition sequenced and robust and these will comprise most of the activities of the session.

Because this event is organized as an open workshop there will be a variety of scenarios to explore.  More importantly, we can build up a Network of interest group who can share their experiences and build more formal relationships long after the workshop has been completed. 

This workshop can also be designed specifically ‘in-house’ and tailored to a specific organisations requirements.  The event if a mixture of tailored input, group work, action planning with specific reference to building your own matrix organisation through action planning.

We will explore the route from traditional to virtual Matrix, testing the new constructs and then move to an exploratory Matrix structure.  We will also examine tools and techniques assessing the readiness for change to move from the traditional to the matrix structure and stress how important it is to build a Matrix culture long before you develop a Matrix structure.

We only run a few open courses per year on Matrix Management.  Most clients preferring to build a sequence of sessions that they can employ over six-months or longer so they can implement changes for real within their own business.

Outline of the Day 1

• Defining models of core characteristics of the matrix organisation
• Matrix Cultures: How to change the culture
• Costs and benefits of matrix over the traditional silo driven organisation
• Customer issues whilst transforming the business
• Everything is a customer facing process - managing and building core processes
• Diagnosing readiness for change and accessing key leverage points for change
• Transformational Leadership - is the top team ready?

Outline of Day 2

• Structural implications in transition - impact of roles and responsibilities
• Human Resource implications from resourcing to performance improvement
• Pre-requisites to effective design of the matrix culture and structure
• Force Field Analysis & Managing Change
• Action Planning from business Strategy to operational tactics
• Developing 'in-house' Change or Matrix Champions to lead the process

(Please note, Technology and Systems issues are not a major element of this Workshop which is best addressed through your IT supplier.  We can work in liaison with your IT supplier should you wish to run this session in-house.)

Benefits of Attending

• Applying the various Models of the Matrix organisation to the participant’s organisation
• Diagnosing current readiness for change identifying roadblocks and opportunities
• Exploring the refinements of the Culture supporting the Matrix organisation
• Understanding the core issues of managing customer relationships whilst in transition
• Reviewing HR and OD strategies for bringing the change about
• Matrix responsibilities of the traditional functional and line manage
• Assessing process management issues for resolution
• Action Planning for change in participant's organisation

Workshop Fee, £700 plus VAT, (£822.50)

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