From the course: Hiring and Developing Your Future Workforce

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Your team can help design new roles

Your team can help design new roles

From the course: Hiring and Developing Your Future Workforce

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Your team can help design new roles

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- In the brave new world of unbundled work, you're going to need to think differently about the way that work is designed, and it starts with how you hire someone into your team. Remember that your team is a pool of problem-solvers. Defining the needs for a new or replaced role on the team is itself a problem they need to help solve. Why would you define the work that needs to be done without their involvement? In fact, every time you need to bring a worker into the team in whatever role and for whatever period of time, it's an opportunity to give your team practice in collaboration, and to rethink how they approach problem-solving. Start by asking the team to talk about the problems to be solved that aren't being solved right now. The more detail the team can use to describe the problems, the more the person who'll be performing the work will be prepared to solve them. And don't forget to connect the problems to be solved with the strategic goals of your group. That anchors the role…

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