In addition to identifying priority service improvement areas across Flinders University, the Service Review highlighted several training opportunities, including one focused on understanding our structure and finessing the skills to maximise benefits to our work and careers.

Ideally suited to agile, innovative organisations, matrix structures emphasise specific business needs and the relationships that support these. However, they can bring challenges and raise questions.

Accordingly, a 30-minute online course has been developed to help staff understand the elements of a matrix structure, how our structure can benefit them, and empower people to overcome any challenges.

The University is also developing two face-to-face workshops to give participants a deeper understanding of how our structure works in practice, and develop skills that are particularly valuable when working with the different relationships in our structure. One of these is targeted to general staff, the other is specifically for supervisors.

Pilot sessions of the face-to-face workshops will take place later this month, after which time they will be reviewed and scheduled on iEnrol.

Staff are invited to complete the short online course via this link – Navigating the Matrix.

Other training needs identified through the Service Review include business improvement training to equip staff with skills to initiate and deliver process improvements (available through iEnrol, see Business Improvement under Professional Skills), which has also been delivered to all executives.

Find out more about the Service Review and the priority projects identified and underway via its dedicated page on the staff portal.