Leading Remote and Hybrid 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 Commitment
Weekly Time Committment
60 Minutes/Week
Duration
4 Weeks
Leader Behaviors
This course strengthens your skills in the following leader behaviors:
- Builds Trust
- Champions Change
- Communicates
- Diagnose Needs
- Focuses on Results through People
- Innovates
- Matches Style to Needs
- Practices Self-Awareness
- Sets Goals
- Solves Problems
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)
Leader Behaviors
This course strengthens your skills in the following leader behaviors:
- Builds Trust
- Champions Change
- Communicates
- Diagnose Needs
- Focuses on Results through People
- Innovates
- Matches Style to Needs
- Practices Self-Awareness
- Sets Goals
- Solves Problems
Why people choose LEL for Leadership Development
The insights from this course have changed how I approach leadership. I now feel equipped to handle challenges more effectively and inspire my team every day.
An invaluable experience! The practical strategies and hands-on exercises helped me build strong leadership skills that I apply daily in my role.
Frequently asked questions
What is managing remote teams training?
Managing remote teams training teaches supervisors and managers to keep an offsite or hybrid team connected, trusted, and productive when they cannot rely on being in the same room. Leadership Edge Live delivers it as a four-week live virtual course that starts with “the right stuff”, the people, situation, and tools an offsite relationship needs, then builds the trust and communication habits that hold a distributed team together.
How do you build trust with a team you cannot see?
You build trust with a remote team by managing to outcomes rather than activity, setting clear expectations, and communicating consistently so people know they are trusted to do their jobs without being watched. This course treats trust and communication as the two factors that matter most to a remote working relationship, and gives managers specific practices for both rather than vague advice to check in more.
How do you keep a remote team productive without micromanaging?
You keep a remote team productive by balancing autonomy with accountability, giving people clear goals and the tools to hit them, then following a light, predictable check-in rhythm instead of constant oversight. The course covers a concept model and process for preparing offsite employees to succeed, plus best practices managers can apply immediately to catch problems early without hovering.
Does this remote teams course work for hybrid teams too?
Yes, the course works for fully remote and hybrid teams alike, because the underlying challenges of trust, communication, and keeping offsite people connected are the same whether someone is remote five days a week or two. Managers of mixed teams often find it most useful, since hybrid setups are where people most easily fall out of sync.
Is this a live course, and who is it for?
This is a live virtual course delivered over four weekly sessions of about an hour, so a team can attend together from wherever they are without travel. It is built for anyone responsible for offsite workers, from a manager with a single remote report to a leader running a fully distributed team, and you can register a team for a free trial session before committing.
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