Leading Remote Teams

Who is the course for?

This program is appropriate for anyone who manages team members who work offsite, ranging from a single remote worker to an entire team. While the course is geared toward supervisors and managers, the content is relevant to anyone who is responsible for the work of or collaborates closely with an offsite team member.

Skill Level

Foundational

Time Committment

Weekly Time Committment

60 Minutes/Week

Duration

No. of Weeks

4

Leader Behaviors

This course strengthens your skills in the following leader behaviors:

Course Overview

The workforce is rapidly changing. An increasing number of employees work offsite by choice or by necessity. Given the increasingly global nature of today’s organizations—as well as improvements in technology that facilitate virtual collaboration and a workforce that insists on more flexibility and independence—this trend is likely to keep gaining momentum.

Whether your employees work at home near the onsite team or are scattered around the country, by improving your ability to manage offsite employees, you will empower yourself in many ways. You will increase your ability to recruit, hire, and retain the right employees for a job. You will help ensure that your team is cohesive and productive. You will know how to avoid costly, time-consuming problems and help your team meet its goals.

Completing this course will help you:

  • Identify the benefits and challenges of offsite working relationships as well as the factors and tools that must be in place for an offsite employee to be effective.
  • Define the role that trust and communication play in the success of an offsite relationship.
  • Employ strategies that help offsite employees stay on track and that deal with common problems faced by managers.
  • Utilize a set of best practices for successfully managing offsite employees.

Learning Path

Session 1 - Introduction to Leading Remote Teams

We begin our discussion by examining ‘the right stuff’—that is, the people, situation, and tools needed for an offsite working relationship to flourish. While working remotely may be appealing to many employees, not everyone is cut out for it.

Virtual Session (30 minutes) + Online Journal (15 minutes) + Activity (15 minutes)

Session 2 - The Essentials

No two factors are more important to a successful remote working relationship than trust and communication. In this session, we will explore both.

Managers need to be able to trust their offsite employees to do their jobs without direct supervision. Knowing that they are trusted helps motivate employees and gives them the confidence and drive they need to work on their own.

In addition to trust—and inseparable from it—clear, ongoing communication is essential to an offsite working relationship. Without that communication, the relationship will have little chance of succeeding.

Virtual Session (30 minutes) + Online Journal (15 minutes) + Activity (15 minutes)

Session 3 - Concept Model and Process

All employees need preparation to do their jobs. It’s no different for employees who will be working remotely, whether they are new to the organization or making the transition from onsite to offsite. This session will dive into how to implement this process effectively.

Managers do not sit their new employees down at a desk and tell them to get to work. To be successful at the job, the new hire needs information about the organization, introductions to colleagues, details about the job, and more. It’s the same with an offsite employee. It would be unreasonable to expect either a new or current employee to jump into offsite work without a certain amount of preparation.

Virtual Session (30 minutes) + Online Journal (15 minutes) + Activity (15 minutes)

Session 4 - Application and Best Practices

We cover a lot of information in the course. In this final session, we pull it all together. In addition, we offer several best practices you can apply on the job immediately to maximize your team members’ chances of meeting their goals and being productive members of the team.

Virtual Session (30 minutes) + Online Journal (15 minutes) + Activity (15 minutes)

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Leader Behaviors

This course strengthens your skills in the following leader behaviors:

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Frequently asked questions

What’s the focus of this remote team leadership training?

The course focuses on virtual collaboration, remote engagement, setting expectations, and trust-building in dispersed teams.

Who should enroll in this course?

Managers, team leads, and business owners overseeing distributed or hybrid teams.

How does this course improve team productivity?

It introduces frameworks to balance autonomy with accountability, resulting in stronger performance and morale.

Is this remote leadership course suitable for hybrid teams too?

Yes, the techniques taught are applicable to both fully remote and hybrid team structures.

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