Managing a remote team requires more than just a work-from-home policy; it demands a comprehensive understanding of remote work best practices. This course equips managers and HR professionals with the skills to build an effective remote work culture and assess their organization’s readiness for remote operations. For example, participants will create a strategic plan to transition a team to remote work, evaluating their organization’s infrastructure and determining the most suitable team structure. Course Breakdown: - Learn to lead in a remote environment - Build a remote organizational culture and practices - Assess teams' and managers' readiness for remote work - Create a foundational strategy for a remote transformation - Complete a final project involving a strategic plan for remote operations - Suitable for intermediate learners with at least one year of management experience
This course on managing remote teams is essential for Engineering Leaders as it addresses the challenges of leading and supporting high-functioning remote teams, helping them to build a strong remote organizational culture. A key actionable takeaway is the creation of a strategic plan for transitioning a team to remote operations, which includes assessing the organization's remote maturity and defining the best team structure for effective remote work.
About this Course
Remote management is much more than just implementing a work-from-home policy. In this course, you’ll learn and apply remote work best practices, build your remote work policy, and prepare your team for success.
This course is ideal for current managers, executives, and human resources professionals who want to learn how to lead and support a high-functioning, scalable remote team. GitLab is one of the world’s largest all-remote organizations; experts from throughout the company will guide you through in-depth lessons for leaders, people managers, and HR professionals to build, manage, and scale. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Lead in a remote environment - Build a remote organizational culture and practices - Assess teams’ and managers’ readiness and preparation for remote work - Create a foundational strategy for executing a remote transformation For the final project in this course, you will create a real or hypothetical strategic plan to transition a team to remote operation. You will assess your organization's remote maturity and infrastructure, and identify the best team structure for remote operation — including determining whether to use an all-remote or remote-friendly model. You'll outline plans for documentation, education, leadership, and equipment or resource needs for your unique organization. This is an intermediate-level course, intended for learners who have previous experience managing or leading people. To succeed in this course, you should have at least one year of management experience. No remote experience is required.