How to Manage Remote Teams as a Project Manager

Many managers still run an office playbook on remote teams, and the result is back-to-back video calls and fatigue. The real challenge is not distance but the loss of ambient information an office used to provide. This course shifts you from presence-based management to output-based leadership and builds the communication systems and human practices a distributed team needs.

Who this course is for

• Project managers leading remote or distributed teams
• Leaders whose teams work across time zones
• Managers whose calendars are packed with meetings that fragment focus time

What you'll be able to do

• Design a communication operating model that deliberately separates synchronous from asynchronous work
• Treat documentation as infrastructure and make transparency the default ("if it could be public, make it public")
• Audit your meeting calendar, protect time-zone overlap, and rotate meeting times fairly
• Use one-on-ones as the anchor for workload, clarity, career, and wellbeing conversations
• Build connection deliberately and respond to a disengaged team member with an empathetic private conversation instead of performance management

Complete the video and knowledge check to earn up to 1.5 PDUs, credited from your recorded learning time.