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.