The Matrix and Complex Environment ( MaCE )
Leadership Diagnostic Report ( LDR )™ - The MaCE LDR™
The MaCE LDR ™ results from two decades worth of research with multi-national clients around the world to discover the fundamental
beliefs,
behaviours,
knowledge and
skills that matrix working practitioners consider critical for MaCE Leadership and Teamworking in multi-dimensional operating structures and complex cross-process roles.
The MaCE LDR ™ is a personal preferences instrument that enables people to compare and contrast self-reported matrix working competencies against 7 MaCE Capability Areas are are critical for anyone who works in a Matrixed (e.g. cross-process) or Complex Environment (e.g. cellular) type operating structure or role.
As a result of a Manager, Mentor, Colleague or Coach, or an in-house or external Facilitator inviting someone by email to complete the 84 item 'on-line' MaCE LDR ™ Questionnaire ahead of an individual or group learning event. The person who completes a Questionnaire will -
by return email - immediately receive a personalised copy of their MaCE LDR ™ in a .pdf file format which enables them to create a bespoke MaCE working skills development agenda.
The 16 page MaCE LDR ™ Personal Development Plan (PDP) people receive comprises the following information:
- Overview : A description of what the MaCE LDR ™ is and how it helps develop Matrix working capabilities
- Section 1 : A Graph showing someone's self-assessed position in relation to the 7 MaCE Capability Areas
- Section 2 : 7 pages, with up to 3 priority Development Choices on each page, for all 7 MaCE Capability Areas
- Section 3 : A 'Development Prioritisation' Template
- Section 4 : A ‘ Traffic Light ’ Action Planning Template
- Section 5 : Additional Development Data
As a metric the MaCE LDR ™ Questionnaire can be re-taken after 3 months to measure an individuals or teams collective development in each of the 7 Capability Areas. This provides organisations with a global and local method of analysing the cost-benefit spend for any MaCE specific training interventions carried out in previous quarters.
The bespoke PDP the MaCE LDR ™ creates enables people to understand how their current competencies can be developed so they can work more effectively in matrix-enabled operating environments.
The 7 Capability Areas described in the MaCE LDR ™ are as follows:
• Stakeholder Alignment - The ability to strategically and tactically align stakeholders
to achieve inter-dependent goals and objectives.
• Political Intelligence - The ability to navigate the political landscape of the organisation
for the positive benefit of self and key stakeholders.
• Interpreneurial Creativity - The ability to provide entrepreneurial and innovative stakeholder focussed business
solutions, within and across organisational, territorial and geographical boundaries.
• Relationship Intelligence
- The ability to effectively develop and maintain a range of
short and long term collaborative stakeholder relationships.
• Ambiguity Management -
The ability to work effectively within structures or environments that lack clarity,
while providing direction and support for key stakeholders that reduces ambiguity.
• Leadership Accountability - The ability to show flexible Leadership and Teamworking skills,
and to take responsibility for making decisions and initiating action.
• Conflict Handling - The ability to pro-actively resolve inter-personal conflict between self and key
stakeholders, and to
mediate conflict between different stakeholders.
As with any set of competencies the 7 Capability Areas described in the MaCE LDR ™ aim to improve performance through the development of working practices, with each Capability Area requiring a 'matrix-specific' training solution that will augment and enhance someone's base-line capability levels.
The MaCE LDR ™ is extremely good at identifying Political Skills development gap and www.matriXtc.com provide a range of specialised solutions that can help people close such skill-gaps through wither individual self-study, coaching or mentoring activities, or as part of a collective skills learning program or developmental Workshop.
Summary
The MaCE LDR ™ is a multi-faceted development tool that not only helps people develop MaCE working capabilities, and acts as a metric that measures Individual & Team development as a result of people undertaking matrix specific training. The MaCE LDR ™ can also be used to diagnose the MaCE working capabilities of an entire Team, Department or Organization, and it can create a targeted training solutions prioritisation list for Individuals and Facilitators.
Technical Information
Instrument: The Matrix and Complex Environment (MaCE) Leadership Diagnostic Report (LDR)™
Edition: 2020
Format: 16 Page, A4, .PDF, Printable, Personal Development Plan for working in MaCE Structures or Roles
Metric: On-line, 84 Item Questionnaire that produces 7 Dimensional Score Values to create a MaCE LDR ™
Audience: All Organizational levels, but a minimum of 1 years full time Organizational work experience
Usage: Self Development, Coaching or Mentoring, Talent Development, Matrix Skill Building Workshops
Author: Wayne Thomas, M.A., M.Sc., M.B.A., Ph.D.
David Bancroft-Turner, B.A. (Hons)., Dip.T.M.

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