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11 hours

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Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Intermediate Level You should have least one year of management experience before taking this course. No remote experience is required.
  • Approx. 11 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
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  • 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.
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How to Manage a Remote Team
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Curriculum

Remote Work Best Practices

Course Introduction

Meet The Instructors

Why Remote Work?

What Is Remote Work?

Organizational Remote-Readiness

Hiring Globally

Hiring For a Remote Role

Rethinking The Workspace

Onboarding Remotely

Weekly Summary

Course Syllabus

Additional Resources

Who Are Remote Workers?

Sample Interview Questions

Remote-Specific Roles

Additional Considerations for People and HR Best Practices

About Remote Work

Building a Team

Remote Work Best Practices

Managing Remote Teams

Communication is Crucial

Meetings and Collaboration

Adopting a Results-Oriented Mindset

Understanding Job Satisfaction and Performance

Remote Leadership and Responsibility

Weekly Summary

Embracing Asynchronous Communication

Project and Task Management

Career Development

Communication

Personal Development and Leadership

Managing Remote Teams

Remote Adaptation Processes for Organizations

?Going Remote? is a Process For Every Organization

Overview of the Types of Remote Teams

No-Remote to All-Remote: Five Common Team Structures (Part 1)

No-Remote to All-Remote: Five Common Team Structures (Part 2)

Overview of Remote Adaptation

Phases of Remote Adaptation (Part 1)

Phases of Remote Adaptation (Part 2)

Maturity

Planning Your Remote Transition

Step 7: Close The Office

Weekly Summary

Types of Remote Teams

Phases of Remote Adaptation

Remote Transition Planning

Remote Adaptation

Culture and Values for Distributed Teams

Defining Culture

How Is Culture Different at a Remote Organization?

GitLab's Values

Hypothetical: Creating Values

How to Create and Roll Out Your Values

Getting It Right

Weekly Summary

Why Develop a Set of Values?

Values at Other Remote Organizations

How and When to Consider Iterating on Your Values

Culture and Values

Developing and Upholding Values

Culture and Values for Distributed Teams

Final Assignment: Outline your Remote Transition Plan

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    Vaishnavi S
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    Other: It's wondeeful course to learn how to effectively utilise opportunity of WFH. Managing team remotedly requires lot of soft skills as virtual team has got both advantages n disadvantages. Due to pandemic most of work is online this should help employees balance work life too
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    Poonam Singh
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    Other: Very easy to follow, food for thought and a number of excellent points to consider when planning a transition to remote work. A bit too much recruitment for gitlab - but if their company works as they tell, it seems to be an excellent "place" to be (the advertisement works).
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    Poonam Singh
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    Other: Very easy to follow, food for thought and a number of excellent points to consider when planning a transition to remote work. A bit too much recruitment for gitlab - but if their company works as they tell, it seems to be an excellent "place" to be (the advertisement works).
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