{"id":21097,"date":"2015-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/more-than-skill-building\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:04:05","slug":"more-than-skill-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/more-than-skill-building\/","title":{"rendered":"More than skill building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Monkeys-Working-330x330.jpg\" alt=\"Monkeys Working\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The difference between matrix and virtual management skills and ways of working<\/h2>\n<p>In our matrix management and virtual teams training we distinguish between skills and ways of working.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In skill building we give people the techniques of working in more complex organizations. We train people in what\u2019s different about context, clarity, cooperation, control, communication and community. Skill building tends to be an individual enterprise, people learn either on or off the job and develop personal capabilities that they can bring to the job.<\/li>\n<li>Ways of working however are collective. They represent the group expectations and norms that individuals work within. They include things like expectations on meetings, what gets rewarded etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If we take a simple example, business meetings. An individual can learn new skills and techniques for managing more effective meetings. They will often reach the end of a training course full of good intentions and ideas.\u00a0 Unfortunately they return to a group of colleagues who haven\u2019t had the same insights or developments. The collective way of working is hard for one individual to change.<\/p>\n<p>Sticking with our meetings example. One of the things that people learn in our virtual meetings\u00a0training is that around 20% of meeting participants are usually unnecessary.\u00a0 It\u2019s rarely hard to spot who these people are, they don\u2019t contribute very much and everyone knows they don\u2019t really need to be there.\u00a0 However, in real life, meetings are about much more than just doing the work of the meeting. They are an opportunity for visibility, they allow people to feel \u201cinvolved\u201d.\u00a0 Telling someone they don\u2019t need to come to a meeting, even when they find it boring, can provoke an emotional response.<\/p>\n<p>Developing new ways of working means intervening directly in these collective contexts, building a common set of expectations about who should attend meetings and how they should run\u00a0and dealing with some of the byproducts of meetings that people do value such as networking and visibility \u2013 if we are not going to do these in meetings, where will we meet this need?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not enough just to build skills; we also need to develop new ways of working. This is an enormous challenge.\u00a0\u00a0Many of our clients have more than a hundred thousand employees so we are trying to enact this level of change at huge scale.\u00a0 However it\u2019s not something we can ignore; simply giving people skills is not enough unless we build a critical mass that can reach a tipping point of expectations in the collective way of working.<\/p>\n<p>One of the tools we\u2019ve developed to help people with this is the &#8220;<a title=\"The Better Meetings Campaign\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/meetings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Better Meetings Campaign<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0which can help you create a \u201ccampaign\u201d to change ways of working in this area.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to find out more about how you can change ways of working in your organization, why not contact us.<\/p>\n<p>[banner heading=&#8221;Better Meetings&#8221; link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/meetings\/&#8221; icon=&#8221;bettermeetings&#8221; anchor=&#8221;Read More&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221;]Join our campaign to stamp out poor meetings[\/banner][banner heading=&#8221;Contact Us&#8221; link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/contact-us\/&#8221; icon=&#8221;man_with_laptop&#8221; anchor=&#8221;Find Out More&#8221; align=&#8221;right&#8221;]We help organizations build skills and establish new ways of working.[\/banner]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between matrix and virtual management skills and ways of working In our matrix management and virtual teams training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog","training-matrix-management","training-virtual-teams"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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