Learning and Development Specialist: Duties, Skills, and Career Growth
November 22, 2024
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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
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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.
In this module, you will learn about how to prepare a remote-friendly organization, and apply it by assessing your current remote readiness.
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In this module, you will learn about common challenges and adjustments that need to be made when beginning to manage a remote team. You will understand and be able to evaluate performance, morale, and success metrics.
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In this module, you will gain understanding of your organization's current level of remote adaptation, and begin to map out a foundational strategy for optimal remote operation.
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In this module, you will understand the importance of culture and values statements for supporting business strategy. You will learn how to develop, roll out, and refine organizational values for a distributed team.
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GitLab is an open core company which develops software for the software development lifecycle used by more than 100,000 organizations, 30 million estimated registered users, and has an active community of more than 3000 contributors. GitLab openly shares more information than most companies and is public by default, meaning our projects, strategy, direction and metrics are discussed openly and can be found within our website. Our values are Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging , Iteration, and Transparency (CREDIT) and these form our culture. GitLab's team handbook, which if printed would be over 5,000 pages of text, is the central repository for how we operate and is a foundational piece to the GitLab values. GitLab believes in a world where everyone can contribute. Our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of human progress. With GitLab, everyone can contribute.
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Reviewed on Mar 26, 2023
This course offers a comprehensive background about the different types of remote teams and discusses steps to follow for businesses to be able to transition to remote work seamlessly.
Reviewed on Jan 3, 2021
I especially liked the GitLab resouces that were made available to all participants. This level of trnasparency and quality is a great example for those setting up remote teams.
Reviewed on May 4, 2021
This course is an eye-opener to Remote Work structure. I have learned new skills of leading a remote work team and enjoyed doing the assignments and the discussion forums.
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