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Business & EntrepreneurshipIntermediate

Remote Team Management

Lead distributed teams across time zones with clarity, trust, and results.

14 hoursNina Kovács4.7 (3,400 learners)

About this course

A practical management course for leaders running remote or hybrid teams. Topics include asynchronous communication design, meeting cadence, goal-setting frameworks, performance management at a distance, building team culture without an office, and the tools and workflows used by the best remote organisations.

Target audience: Engineering managers, startup founders, team leads managing remote workers

What you will learn

  • Remote management
  • Async communication
  • OKRs
  • Remote onboarding
  • Distributed team culture

Course syllabus

10 modules · video + workbook

  1. 1Remote work fundamentals: why most remote teams fail and how to avoid it
  2. 2Async-first communication: writing clearly, reducing meeting load
  3. 3Tool stack: Notion, Linear, Slack, Loom, and when to use each
  4. 4Hiring for remote: what to look for and how to assess it
  5. 5Onboarding new remote employees: the 30-60-90 plan
  6. 6Goal-setting: OKRs and weekly check-ins
  7. 7Performance management: feedback, reviews, and difficult conversations remotely
  8. 8Team culture: rituals, recognition, and belonging without an office
  9. 9Time-zone management: overlap windows and async boundaries
  10. 10Managing managers: scaling a distributed org

Prerequisites

  • Some management experience helpful

Frequently asked questions

Is this relevant to managing contractors and freelancers as well as employees?

Yes. The communication and goal-setting modules apply equally to contractors. The legal and HR modules focus on employees but note where contractor management differs.

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