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Gain the skills and certifications to lead remote teams effectively
In today’s evolving work environment, your ability to lead remote, hybrid, and onsite teams is crucial. The Certified Remote Work Leader course is designed to give you the skills needed to manage teams across different work settings. Whether you’re leading remote or hybrid teams, or overseeing onsite employees, this course equips you with practical tools to handle the challenges each environment presents. If you’re an HR professional, you’ll also gain valuable insights on developing remote work policies and guiding leadership on managing hybrid teams successfully.
Unlock Your Potential as a Remote and Hybrid Work Leader
This course combines expert-led lessons, real-world case studies, and interactive activities to teach you how to encourage open communication, build trust, and maintain accountability in remote and hybrid teams. You’ll learn how to use collaboration tools, set clear expectations, and address common challenges like burnout and communication breakdowns. Upon completion, you’ll earn a certification that proves your ability to lead diverse teams and help shape your organization’s remote and hybrid work strategies. Enroll today to develop the remote leadership skills or develop the remote work policy expertise your organization needs.
Earn this certificate in 12-20 hours (3-5 hours per week over 4 weeks)
The Remote Work Leader course is a blended course, combining online work with one interactive virtual workshop per week. It is designed to engage you, as an organizational leader or manager, in appropriate techniques, tools, and resources for the development and leadership of a remote or hybrid work team. You'll also learn various approaches to managing individual remote employees and designing remote jobs.
Course Dates 2025
| Course Start Date |
Course End Date |
Course Duration |
Application Deadline |
Workshop Dates | Workshop Times (1 hour) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 7, 2025 | August 6, 2025 | 1 month | July 2, 2025 | July 9, 16, 23, & 30 | 12 p.m. MT |
| September 1, 2025 | October 1, 2025 | 1 month | August 27, 2025 | September 3, 10, 17, & 24 | 12 p.m. MT |
Course Fees
| Course Fee | Note |
|---|---|
| $149/Participant | Each cohort of the course has limited capacity in order to ensure a high-quality learning experience for each student. |
Course Schedule
The Remote Work Leader course consists of seven core modules delivered in a self-paced, online format, integrated with four interactive virtual workshops hosted via video conference. Participation in the workshops and learning modules alternate and are based on the following schedule:
| Week | Description |
|---|---|
| Week 1 |
Attend Interactive Workshop #1
Complete Module 1: Vision |
| Week 2 |
Complete Module 2: Culture Attend Interactive Workshop #2
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| Week 3 |
Complete Module 4: Performance Management Complete Module 5: Conflict Management Attend Interactive Workshop #3
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| Week 4 |
Complete Module 6: Change Management Attend Interactive Workshop #4
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A complete course rubric and full list of competencies are available for download.
FAQs
Access the course syllabus by clicking here!
The program consists of seven core modules with the following objectives:
- Module 1: Vision
- Module 2: Culture
- Module 3: Communication
- Module 4: Performance Management
- Module 5: Conflict Management
- Module 6: Change Management
- Module 7: Learning & Development
Course Objectives
At the completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
- Critically assess their organization’s current vision for the future
- Create a plan to include culture-building in routine operations
- Develop an effective communication agreement between remote employees and management
- Design a performance management plan to address common challenges with managing remote employees
- Create a conflict resolution chart
- Develop a change management process to address barriers to organizational change
- Design a strategy for addressing common barriers to remote employees’ learning and development
This course includes four live interactive workshops hosted over a video call using Zoom, a free video-conferencing software. Workshops will be held on Wednesdays (please see course dates and schedule), and participation in all four workshops is mandatory for this course. If you are not able to participate fully in the workshops, please enroll in a different section of the course that is compatible with your schedule.
To successfully complete the course and earn the Certified Remote Work Leader online certificate, you will need to do all of the following:
- Complete all 7 course modules, including any assignments and quizzes contained within each module.
- Pass each assessment with a minimum score of 80%.
- Attend all four interactive workshops.
Upon successful completion of these course requirements, you will be presented with a Certificate of Completion to add to your professional credentials. You will also be supported by the Rural Online Initiative program as you move forward with creating a remote work environment within your organization.
You must also have broadband internet (DSL, Cable, Fiber, etc.) with minimum speed of 8Mbps download and 2Mbps upload to participate in the video workshops. You can check your Internet speed using http://www.speedtest.net
HR Certification Institute's® (www.HRCI.org) official seal confirms that Utah State University | Rural Online Initiative Extension meets the criteria for pre-approved recertification credit(s) for any of HRCI's eight credentials, including SPHR® and PHR®.