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Online Courses: Navigating a Matrixed Organization
Online Courses: Navigating a Matrixed Organization
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Managing in a Matrixed Organization (41 minutes)
Matrixed organizations are challenging to run, but offer more efficiency, innovation, and leadership development than traditional vertical reporting structures. Whether you're leading a matrixed organization or you're a team member in one, you need to understand how matrixed organizations work, what the common pitfalls are when running and working in them, and how you can get the greatest benefits from their design. In this course, instructor Mike Figliuolo explains how to manage matrixed employees, excel as an employee in a formal or informal matrix, and capitalize on the unique opportunities that a matrix offers, including the ability to reach a larger network and learn more about more aspects of the business.
Video: Coaching in a complex matrixed organization (4 minutes)
Managing a team, particularly a team of people from different backgrounds, generations, and cultures, is challenging enough. But in a situation like a global pandemic, the rate of change in workplaces is unlike anything seen before, and leaders and managers need to deal with challenges they’ve never dealt with previously. The entire structures of teams and organizations are constantly changing, yet managers are still expected to perform at a high level. In this course, chartered psychologist Gemma Leigh Roberts provides coaching techniques to help your team focus on performance and productivity in a constantly changing environment. She explains different coaching models to help teams set and reach performance goals, provides tips for coaching across cultures and generations, and recommends practices you can use to build your coaching skills.
Book Recommendations: Navigating a Matrixed Organization
Book Recommendations: Navigating a Matrixed Organization
Books
Master the Matrix: 7 Essentials for Getting Things Done in Complex Organizations
Authors: Susan Zelmanski, Tony Thelen, Harry Kraemer
Summary: Whether we are in a formal matrix structure, a matrix role or work through a web of people to get things done, today’s work requires us to work side to side, across the organization. For our own careers and for the success of the organization, we can’t remain in the comfortable confines of our functional, geographical or product siloes. The complex solutions and decisions that move businesses forward are found in the lateral work—with partners scattered across the organization and around the globe. Master the Matrix, 2nd Edition, is based on the discussions, questions and ideas of thousands of participants and clients who have used this powerful, practical framework to make sense of cross-functional work. It is backed by the quantitative results from Finerty Consulting’s Matrix180 and Cross-Functional Influence 180 assessment tools, interviews and surveys. Structured around the stories of practioners and considered the gold standard of “how to” in our matrixed, cross-functional organizations, this book is as relatable as it is reliable. Bonus material includes making it work in virtual work environments and what to look for when hiring for cross-functional roles.
Making the Matrix Work: How Matrix Managers Engage People and Cut Through Complexity
Author: Kevin Hall
Summary: Global customers, supply chains and more integrated business functions mean that work now cuts across the traditional vertical silos of country and function. But the 'solution' of the matrix structure also brings multiple bosses, competing goals and higher levels of complexity. Traditional management training prioritizes clarity, predictability and control. In a matrix we need to be able to balance this with the ability to tolerate ambiguity, manage uncertainty and decentralize control. Managers need an expanded toolkit to help them move from the hard to the soft, from the concrete to the ambiguous and back again depending on the situation. Kevan Hall's new book will help you develop your matrix mindset” and will show you how to establish and engage networks that do not depend on role, control or authority to get things done. This book gives individuals working in the matrix the tools to take control of their own goals, role and success and shows matrix managers how to lead others to make their matrix really work.
Author: Paul A Wyatt
Summary: In this game-changing guide, you will learn how to overcome leadership challenges and succeed as an exemplary leader with the right mindsets, skills, tools, and practices! Using a practical, step-by-step approach, this book will walk you through the most critical skills you need to survive and thrive as a leader, including:
Increasing your self-awareness and self-management
Unlearning unhelpful leadership paradigms
Understanding yourself and the best leadership style for your philosophy
Mastering the art of effective communication and easily overcoming common communication challenges
Handling conflict like a rock star
Handling crises with ease and style
Making the best game-changing decisions with a drop of a hat
Creating mistake-friendly, creative, and change-embracing workspaces
Leading your team through any kind of changes with full commitment
Making people want to follow you, even through the toughest times
Creating strong, cohesive and motivated teams
And so much more!
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Navigating a Matrixed Organization
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