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From here on in, Friday is the day we ‘dress down’ on the Life in a Matrix blog. It\u2019s the day when we can let you get to know us as a company and as individuals \u2013 and hopefully we\u2019ll get to know you better too…<\/p>\n

Having kicked off each week with our \u2018Matrix Monday\u2019 literature reviews<\/a>, and shared some thoughts on our subject matter over the course of the week (if you’re on Twitter, look for \u00a0#matrixmonday), we thought we\u2019d keep Friday as (mostly)\u00a0the day we \u00a0post some of the things we\u2019re doing as a company.<\/p>\n

Kicking this new series off \u00a0today is something of a round up, with the promise of more to come.<\/p>\n

Many read with pleasure about Phil Stockbridge\u2019s charity trip to the Rainbows4Children project in Ethiopia<\/a>. I caught up with Phil this week to ask him about his trip. In a fairly cut off part of Africa, about as far away from the hubbub of city life as you could get, what stood out wasn\u2019t the cultural difference, which is what I\u2019d expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were the challenges of rural Ethiopian infrastructure \u2013 intermittent water and electricity –\u00a0 of course, but what struck me,\u201d said Phil, \u201cwas how similar the problems are to those faced by the corporate groups I normally work with. Working across cultures, in teams of people with slightly different group and personal aims and views, presents a common set of challenges. The setting, of course, is unique, but that\u2019s true of every single situation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last week saw one of our regular team meet ups.\u00a0 As our senior consultants are almost constantly either on the road delivering training and consultancy, or preparing to do just that working from home.\u00a0 As a global virtual team ourselves, we practise what we preach, and get together periodically to discuss ideas, share learning, and generally push forward what we\u2019re doing to keep our content fresh, relevant and challenged for relevancy.<\/p>\n

This time we spent some time looking at creating some interactive games, looking at some of the newest ideasthat Kevan Hall has encapsulated in his new book (Making the Matrix Work<\/a>, published at the end of this year, launching in January), and our community day (important for bonding the team and solving individual queries) was, excitingly, spent gliding \u00a0– hence the picture.<\/p>\n

We also celebrated Rod Farnan\u2019s long service award \u2013 more on that one next Friday, once I\u2019ve prised some photos out of the team.<\/p>\n

You may have noticed that we now have an \u2018About Global Integration<\/a>\u2019 page on our site – it was pretty hidden on our old one. The welcome video on the page is one of the new ones to the site. Recorded by CEO Kevan Hall, we\u2019ll post it up later today with a transcript for those who are unable to access YouTube in their country.<\/p>\n

To round things off, whilst we\u2019re on the subject of videos, some may remember the very first video we had in on the global working video competion<\/a> last year. The young man who submitted it, Rhys (aged 11 at the time) caught the attention of CEO Kevan Hall. Rhys wants to be Formula One racing mechanic, and as Kevan\u2019s had an abiding interest in cars and rallying, he sponsored Rhys to attend a course for young mechanics in Vancouver over the summer as a thank you for letting us extend the competition deadline. Rhys has promised to blog his experience \u00a0for next Friday as well. (His video entry is here: Global Working: Racing Mechanics<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Photos of the Ethiopian trip and the gliding will be on both Flickr<\/a> and on Facebook<\/a> early next week. So there’s plenty to stay tuned for!<\/p>\n

Let us know if \u00a0‘dress down Friday’ works for you.<\/p>\n

Claire Thompson<\/em><\/p>\n

September 2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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