Matrix Management – E-Learning Course

Matrix Management

Understand the benefits and potential pitfalls of the matrix management approach to organisational structure.

Matrix management is becoming a common structure for many organisations today. It’s a flexible approach to organising and managing teams and provides many opportunities to better share resources and skills within a business. It’s a collaborative approach that can increase engagement, provide career opportunities for employees, and deliver new and exciting ways of working.

A matrix style of management is not without its dangers though and some of the early implementations highlighted risks that businesses have learned to avoid with some adaptation of the original approach. Matrix Management 2.0 has consequently become the more usual framework.

This Matrix Management e-learning course sets out to provide your learners with a thorough understanding of this approach to organisational structure. It looks at the theory behind the concept and then expands into the nuts and bolts of making it work within your organisation.

This course is suitable for the leaders within your business and will help anyone who is involved in the collaboration of employees and teams. This could include:

• Directors
• Managers
• Project Managers
• Team leaders
• Supervisors
• Consultants

• It’s an online e-learning course
• Containing five interactive modules
• Includes relevant hints, tips and resources
• Blending text, graphics, quizzes, interactions and videos
• Regular on-going testing as you progress
• A full final assessment with CPD certification​

To put it simply, this course will provide your learners with the opportunity to fully understand matrix management and how it works in practice. With this e-learning course:

• Understand organisational structures and why a business might benefit from a matrix management structure
• Identify why different structures fail and how to avoid any pitfalls
• Implement Matrix Management 2.0 and the business processes behind it
• Appreciate the benefits of a matrix management approach on employees and the organisation
• Establish how collaborative management can work for your organisation
• Follow a clear process for implementing matrix management
• Explore a case study that will help you better understand issues and concerns​

• Explore why an organisational structure is necessary
• Identify the features of a vertical structure
• Review the disadvantages of a vertical structure
• Understand a matrix management structure
• Investigate one of the main problems with early matrix management.

• Examine how a horizontal dimension in an organisation works
• Review three types of business processes
• Assess the main assumptions behind matrix management
• Evaluate the implications matrix management has for leaders and the skills they need.​

• Explore the advantages of working in a matrix environment for an individual including:
  • an increased sense of engagement
  • opportunities for career development
  • increased opportunities for working abroad
  • learning new ways of working.

• Analyse some of the differences between traditional and collaborative management
• Identify why it is important to recognise when things have gone wrong and how this can help improve future performance
• Explore features of collaborative management and three different organisational levels
• Establish some things that collaborative leaders can do, and the way they can be that will help in a collaborative environment.​

• Follow a simple five step process for migrating to matrix management
• Review examples of what can go wrong when implementing a matrix system and what one company learnt from its mistakes.​

• A chance to test your knowledge of the topic with scoring
• The e-learning course comes with free CPD certificates for the learners

• Practical courses – This course is designed to help your learners in the real business world, giving them practical skills that they can quickly and easily implement in the workplace.
• Interactive and engaging – Learning doesn’t have to be boring. This multi-media course is designed to keep your participants engaged throughout.
• Step-by-step learning – This course is broken down into easy to manage bite-size chunks. From start to finish we take your learners on an enjoyable learning journey.
• Fully accredited – The CPD Verification Service accredit all our courses, so you can be sure our training materials are of the highest standard.​

Where clients are not using our LMS and wish to host it on their own LMS instead, we provide SCORM files that they can simply install directly. Although these files are added to the clients LMS as usual and the user will access and view the course exactly as they would if it was built on the clients system, we are still able to track user numbers our side and also provide regular updates to the content.​

Our e-learning products are always provided ‘white-label’ with no Trainer Bubble logos or references to our company.

We also understand that you may like to make alterations to the content. Whether it’s minor edits, larger alterations, adding of logos, or swapping images to better reflect your corporate identity – we can provide this change for a small fee.

Please note: We regularly update our courses to reflect legal changes or just general improvements to content. All this happens without you having to lift a finger whether the course is on your LMS or ours.