Managing a Matrix Team

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Managing a Matrix Team

Combining Expertise for Optimal Solutions

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Classroom sessions
DateVenueFee
24-28 Nov 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
29 Jun-03 Jul 2026London - UK$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
23-27 Nov 2026Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
Online sessions
DateVenueFee
15-19 Sep 2025Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
27 Apr-01 May 2026Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
14-18 Sep 2026Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT

Training Course Overview

Matrix management is an effective approach for organizations looking to share employees and resources across different functions. It allows access to specialized knowledge on a temporary basis, offering a more cost-effective alternative to maintaining dedicated teams. In a matrix structure, an individual reports to a primary boss while also working on projects for one or more additional managers. This setup allows teams to leverage diverse skill sets from various disciplines, enhancing the overall strength of the project team.

This Managing a Matrix Team training course is designed to help you master the core concepts of Matrix Management and address complex challenges such as role ambiguity, conflict resolution, and problem-solving. This course offers practical experience with different methods, tools, and techniques, equipping leaders to improve performance, achieve desired results, and approach their roles with confidence.

Training Course Objectives

By attending this Anderson training course, delegates will be able to master the methods, tools and techniques of Matrix management to capitalize on the advantages of flexibility, greater security and control of the project, plus opportunities for their own development. More specifically, they should be able to:

  • Differentiate approaches and roles between a traditional manager and a matrix manager
  • Apply a variety of practical methods and specific tools and techniques to lead a matrix-based team effectively
  • Set up project teams on a temporary and finite basis for the fulfilment of customers’ needs
  • Bring specialists together in a new environment to enhance the dynamic and innovative view of problems in a different way
  • Motivate diverse and complex teams to solve conflicts themselves without relying on sources outside the matrix

Designed for

This Anderson training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals who are involved in Matrix Management and who want to understand, implement and improve the latest Matrix Management concepts, processes and ideas. For example:

  • Senior Executives
  • Line & Functional Managers
  • Project Managers
  • Group Leaders and Team personnel
  • Shift and Supervisory staff

The Course Outline

Day One: Getting a Grasp on Matrix Teams
  • Introduction: What is Matrix management?
  • The 5W1H (What, Who, When, Where, Why & How) of matrix-managed teams
  • The dimensions of matrix team working: Functional, Cross-functional, Global, Extended
  • The implications of teams having two 'Chains of Command'
  • The advantages and challenges of matrix teams
  • The outputs of matrix management: Leadership and Management perspectives
Day Two: Leader’s Roles in Matrix Teams
  • Matrix vs Traditional teams: Differences in leadership, decision making and collaboration
  • Expectations on the matrix team leaders
  • Becoming accountable to the needs of the team
  • How to maintain focus and demonstrate concern
  • Appropriate level of involvement and control
  • Providing direction working inside the group vs positional authority
  • Cross-functional accountability for matrix team leaders
Day Three: Key Behaviours and Skills Required
  • The skills, qualities and attributes needed in matrix management
  • Understanding impacts of leaders’ style and influence on the team
  • Communicating and controlling at appropriate levels for matrix team leaders
  • Developing a passion to release potentials in team members
  • Delivering performance effectively in a complex environment
  • Managing Projects: Lifecycle, tools, triple constraints and critical success factors
Day Four: Establishing a Matrix-based Team – Tools and Techniques
  • The makeup of high performing matrix teams
  • Group process facilitation – enabling the team to achieve
  • Team problem solving – encouraging collaboration and collective management control
  • Team decision making – empowering the team to reach their own decisions based on team’s charter
  • Team communication – representing the voice of the team within the wider organization
  • Increasing engagement and staying connected
Day Five: Advanced Matrix Leadership Requirements
  • International considerations such as cultural drivers, language and time differences
  • Developing mutual understanding and cultural sensitivity
  • Improving communication: When and How
  • Tools and techniques for influencing and virtual communication
  • Preventing and managing conflict
  • Application Planning - Developing a practical application plan focused on your own specific matrix team

The Certificate

  • Anderson Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course

In Association With

Aztech
Copex
Coventry
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