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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 Andrey S

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Nov 30, 2020

I came to the course to learn about managing the remote teams. I was looking for the practical experience and advices. I was expecting to get real life example based on the years of experience that GitLab has working remotely. I've got something completely different and it disappointed me. I see this course as a set of slides that are read out loud by people working in GitLab. My expectations were certainly not matched. Maybe for the further iterations of the course it would be nice to make it more humane and real-life. What I liked is the set of materials Gitalb provided as a supportive materials for the course. There are a lot but it is easier to get them from there rather than look for the same on Gitlab website.

By udi b

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Oct 21, 2023

The course was structured in a logical manner, focusing primarily on the journey of transitioning a company to a fully remote work model. While it was evident that the instructors were well-prepared and articulate, the content did not align with my personal expectations. I was hoping for more practical tools and insights on managing remote teams effectively. Perhaps a more fitting title might be "Transitioning to a Fully Remote Business Model." As a global team lead in a multinational company that isn't entirely remote, I found the course less applicable to my needs. I desired more hands-on strategies and advice.

By Dwanna C

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Mar 15, 2021

It was okay. I took the Inclusion course first which was outstanding so this was a little bit of a let down. I would have liked to have a few mini assignments that led up to the whole transition plan. Perhaps doing parts of the plan along the way would be better and allow the student to implement the smaller things that should be in a plan.

However, this course did provide some good insight which I appreciated having never worked remotely.

By Blanca C

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Mar 13, 2023

The course title should be more "How to transition to remote", as it's intended for companies/managers that want to move from non-remote approaches. I would have expected more content about how to handle remote team members and the struggles of not being colocated. Overall it has been a nice course.

By Prachi P

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May 22, 2022

Remote work may not always work.

I thought it was heavily based in promoting remote work.

The quiz could be well organzied. "All of teh above" shpuld come in the end, not as first point.

By Amin M

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Apr 17, 2024

I found this course on How to manage a Remote Team to be a very interesting course and I learnt a lot from the course.

By Jason C

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Feb 17, 2022

This is a great class for someone who is just starting in project management.

By Meelik G

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Nov 22, 2020

Very basic course

By Alberto F

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Nov 2, 2023

Not very practical if you are already managing a distributed company. In general it shows a lot of theory and it lacks of practical advices.

By Roman Z

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Aug 24, 2021

Quite general information and advice, not very detailed course.

By Thibaut F

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Apr 4, 2024

few interesting management insights

By chris

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Oct 18, 2022