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Professional Certificate Series

Professional Certificate in Leading in a Remote Environment

Improve your leadership and management skills in today's work environment.

    • 2 Courses
    • 2 Months
    • Earn Your Certificate
    What You'll Learn

    How has remote work changed how you manage and lead?

    While working in a remote environment provides many opportunities for global teams, it also presents unique challenges to maintaining relationships and achieving goals. Leaders need to be adaptive in order to mobilize a remote workforce to meet these new challenges. Learn how to adapt as a leader and manage a remote team in Remote Leadership. In the first course, Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles, you’ll learn how to be an effective leader and motivate your remote team while navigating change and common challenges. In Remote Work Revolution for Everyone, you will learn the professional development skills to excel in virtual teams. You will learn how to build trust, increase productivity, use digital tools intelligently, and manage remote teams.

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    Learning Outcomes

    Implement practices that will allow you to be an effective leader and successfully manage a remote team.

    Learning Outcomes

    Develop strategies for yourself and your team, improving productivity, communication, and collaboration.

    Learning Outcomes

    Learn how to select the right digital tools to increase productivity and access between remote employees.

    2 Courses

    Beyond our premium learning paths you can still earn certificates

    Remote Work Revolution for Everyone

    2-3 hours a week

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    Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles

    2-3 hours a week

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    Learn from the best in the industry

    Meet your instructors

    Ronald Heifetz

    Ronald Heifetz

    King Hussein Bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School

    Tsedal Neeley

    Tsedal Neeley

    Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

    The course was amazing. It helped me understand about how to speak in public, how to write in a more effective leader. I also learned about how to be a good leader, and how to take into consideration the needs of different parties.
    Sebastian S.
    [Exercising Leadership] changed the way I'm approaching my next leadership challenge. I strongly suggest to anyone who works with other people to take this course.
    Alessandro G.

    Industry Insights

    "53% of leaders indicated that building skills was the best way to close their company’s capability gaps in the next year” – McKinsey Survey

    "Only 23% of managers feel confident to manage a team of remote workers" – Harvard Business Review

    "51% of all knowledge workers worldwide are expected to be working remotely by the end of 2021" — Gartner survey