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Hybrid teams include a combination of staff and subcontractors working closely together to accomplish a specific task or project. Today's business climate demands a level of efficiency and flexibility that such teams provide. However, managing hybrid teams is especially challenging. Team building is difficult enough without the added complication of outsiders unfamiliar with the organization's standards and culture.

The most effective hybrid teams occur when the organization's leaders understand both outsourcing and team building, subjects usually treated separately in organizational training. Each has its own set of obstacles and opportunities.

• Outsourcing is the practice of managing subcontractors and vendors and structuring contracts to ensure that performance objectives are met.
  
  
• Team building is the art of transforming a group of employees into a productive team capable of meeting performance objectives independent of supervision.

This FutureU module looks at the factors that must be considered when building hybrid teams. The focus is on developing leadership, clarifying team purpose, and maximizing team performance.

Participant Profile

Executives and mid- to upper-level managers who want to maximize staffing alternatives and create more cost effective and efficient teams.

Topics

• Creating and managing a hybrid team of staff and contractors.
• Selecting a balanced mix of people for the task.
• Effectively integrating contractors into the team.
• Developing leadership in a team environment.
• Recognizing and overcoming obstacles to team building.
• Alternative ways to motivate and reward teams.

Module Design

When delivered online, this module lasts two weeks when offered as part of the focused-learning program on Core Competancies for managers. It is also available as a stand-alone, four-week online course. In either case, it requires an average of 10 hours a week of online participation and study time.

Delivery Options

Off-the-shelf or customized to meet your organization's needs. Usually delivered entirely online, via FutureU 's Internet-accessible electronic campus or on your own Intranet. Participants "attend class" from their own desktop or laptop computers, at home or at work, and at whatever time is most convenient to them. Such asynchronous online delivery is especially suited to geographically separated employee groups and those who find it a challenge to fit learning into an already full work schedule. Can also be adapted for on-site delivery.

Customization

Every organization faces a unique set of challenges and opportunities. The FutureU team can customize this module or any other FutureU module or program to address your real workplace concerns and integrate case study material based on your organization's experience. This course can also be modified for "blended" delivery integrating a mix of face-to-face and online work to ease those with little technology experience into the world of online learning.

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