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About the 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....

Top reviews

JB

Jun 15, 2021

Amazing! I am happy to see how it is possible to obtain good results by sharing with plurality and concern for inclusion. I learned a lot, with direct practical use in my current roles in my company.

MS

Jan 18, 2021

Thank you for this opportunity. I learned a lot from this Course.This is very relevant. I will definitely recommend this course to my workmates and peers who are currently working from their homes.

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By Dilyara T

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Mar 16, 2021

I loved this course, it's one of my favorites now. I like the abundance of recourses, 3rd party links, actual real-life examples, and smaller tests. I liked the transparency on Gitlab's survey results, usually, when I take a course like this one, I end up searching additionally on what can I expect, what something should look like, and this course just covers it all.

By Jorge S

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Jan 10, 2021

Although it is a course aimed at managers, I have learned a lot about remote work, especially a human point of view when it comes to communicating and valuing my work and colleagues. In addition to being fascinated by how gitlab works, which was unknown to me, I have discovered some ideas of communication, organization. Thanks Gitlab for offering this course

By Biju P K

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Jan 24, 2022

This is a must course for all the#leadersOpens in a new tab/#managersOpens in a new tabwho are willing to adapt to the#newOpens in a new tabway for working induced by#PandemicOpens in a new tab! I really enjoyed this course and thanks to GitLab & Coursera for preparing an excellent#contentOpens in a new taband providing experienced coaches for this course who shares live examples of successfully managing the remote team in an#asynchronousOpens in a new tabway.

By Marília M

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Dec 31, 2020

This is course is amazing and has valuable information for anyone at any company with any level to start embracing a new mindset for working remotely. Very useful and up to date links, tools and real examples were fundamental to have a deep understanding of all the topics mentioned in this training course. Congrats to the team behind this! Well done! :)

By Stephen W

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Jun 14, 2022

This was an excellent course that was very well presented.

Whether you are planning on managing a remote team or even moving your whole company to a remote-only environment, this course is excellent.

I really like how there are mini-quizzes after each module to help you retain your knowledge.

Nicely laid out and easy to digest the information.

Thank you.

By Hemant S

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Aug 16, 2022

A great course which develop your sense with all 4 ways, after completion of the course you will be able to understand :

1. How to handle the remote teams with diff. timezones

2. What are the needs of remote team.

3. How to Handle the remote team.

4. How to use and make your work culture team friendly for higher output.

5. How to build managment skills.

By Ken J

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Sep 3, 2021

Great course. I've worked with remote, globally teams for 20 years, completely remote since Mar.2020 (same as you). I gained a lot about how teams can work better by thinking about it an planning for it. Management cannot just say "Of course everyone knows how to work remotely now!". They need a plan to insure the team is supported.

By Cathryn R

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Jan 5, 2021

I really enjoyed the course and found the act of marking other people's assignments a wonderful way to embed what I had learnt. I will be recommending this to my team and already I have a better understanding of why we are experiencing some of the challenges we currently do, and what I can do about it.

By Oscar C F

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Oct 28, 2020

Excellent course. I learnt a lot of things about both: management and remote work. The number of tips to facilitate the transition toward remote work were incredible! After the course, I was able to plan the path to more our Institution to an all-remote Institute. Thank you very much GitLab.

By Julio R Q

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Sep 18, 2022

I found this very insightful for effectively managing remote teams under different organizational environments depending on various factors both cultrural and technical as well as leadership buy-in. I really enjoyed the instructores videos and shared knowledge. Thanks GitLab and Coursera!

By Sudhir K

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May 4, 2022

Very helpful learning program for improve of basic knowledge. when we are working then it seems that what we are doing is the best. Especially when you have been working for 8-10 years. But when such a learning platform is available, it seems that a lot needs to be changed now.

By Ogidiolu, O

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May 30, 2021

This is innovative and rich in content. Thank you GitLab for being very transparent even to us learners by providing so much GitLab resource for us to work with. I have transitioned my orgainsation already but with this knowledge, its time to fill the many gaps in my process.

By Alysson B

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Mar 23, 2021

A lot of interesting information. We have, for better or worse, moved to a remote working environment without the necessary time and training to do so in the best way possible. It was good to hear about best practises, transition plan, and the importance of management buy-in.

By Lorenz R

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Dec 10, 2022

Excellent course! This course can be taken at your own pace over 5 weeks and contains a great mix of videos, texts and multiple choice tests. At the end you write a remote transition plan for a company (real or fictional) which is graded by other course participants.

By Kirk B

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Nov 23, 2020

Well-organized and useful presentation of practical methods for transitioning to one of several remote work team structures. Useful for both managers and team members, as the challenges of creating a purposeful culture for a remote work team are discussed. Thanks!

By Krista I M

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Apr 8, 2021

Though remote work has been around for quite some time, the pandemic has changed the game for most workplaces. This is a great course for anyone who wants to learn how they can gradually adapt to remote work and how they can optimize their current remote work setup.

By Kathrin W

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Oct 6, 2021

Great course to learn about and understand all aspects about remote work! The offered information GitLab provided have been extraordinary. Anyone who's considering remote work or wants to be up to date with this approach of New Work - this is the course for you!

By Kateryna K

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Mar 27, 2023

Many thanks to GitLab & Coursera for the course 🧶How to Manage a Remote Team. This online 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.

By Senthilkumar P P

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Mar 17, 2022

This course is very useful for project managers who is planning or operating in Remote work mode. The video sessions are explained with practical situations and examples. I liked this course and I would recommend this to my colleques & friends. Thanks.

By Dennis G

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Nov 3, 2020

Great course. Must have for all who want to capitalise on the good that came out of the pandemic. The course gives great insights on how to transition to a remote organisation and that Peter Druckers "culture eats strategy for breakfast" is so true.

By Aliaksei A

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Nov 24, 2021

The course is great and has a lot information. Of course, it's only a tip of the iceberg and one can find a lot of additional articles in GitLab's handbook. Would be great to have a maturity model for remote teams that will help with assesment.

By Dustin K

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Jun 2, 2022

An excellent course in both content and presentation. There was challenging detail to learn as well as interesting presenters to listen to. This course helped me complete a large remote work project at work.

Thoroughly enjoyed this course.

By Russell S

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Nov 28, 2022

I really enjoyed the course content and Gitlab really share a great deal of insight into transitioning to a fully remote model. I definitely recommend this course to any team leads and managers that are curious how best to lead a remote team.

By Marco d F

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Feb 22, 2021

Great course, lots of good content with plenty of food for the brain. I would recommend it for those with or without remote experience. It definitely teaches you something new and useful to put into practice in your daily activities.