A tool that helps managers and individual contributors design systems that get better performance out of dual-reporting roles.
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TL;DR: If you have two bosses (officially or otherwise), you probably are in a matrixed organization, and you probably have a few problems that can be solved with this canvas.
For employees and managers in matrixed roles, life is hard.
That's because consensus is hard, and the whole dual-reporting thing was designed around consensus.
But in general, managers tend to focus on the individual, rather than the system.
What’s going on with so-and-so? Why can’t they keep up?
Challenges facing creativity; owning ideas from beginning to end; opinionated palettes; are we doing zines again?; randomness that didn’t fit in the first four categories
4 ways to use Pace Layers in strategy and OD work: 🚀 As a career planning tool; 🎓 As a strategy tool; 🔬 As a diagnostic or sense-making tool; 🎨 As a design tool for value-adding layers.
Most of the time when I ask teams how they make decisions, I get a lot of ... silence. And then either: a) "nobody's ever asked me that"; or
b) "I don't think we ever know when we are making a decision"; or c) "we make too many decisions to have a 'way' to make decisions."