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Managing Virtual Teams

4.6(2,000) on LinkedIn Learning·80K enrolled
Intermediate 2 hours English Course Certificate
SkillsVirtual teamsRemote leadershipAsynchronous communicationTrustEngagementManagement

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This LinkedIn Learning course tackles the specific, non-obvious challenges of leading people you rarely see in person.

Good for: Leading distributed and remote teams effectively.

Skip if: You manage only co-located teams or want general management.

It covers building trust without physical presence, setting communication norms for asynchronous work, and keeping remote teams genuinely engaged. These aren't just co-located management skills done over video — trust and engagement work differently when you can't read a room, and the course is built around that difference.

That focus is the point: it's for anyone managing across locations, and less relevant if your team is fully co-located or you want general management. It comes with a LinkedIn Learning subscription (usually a free trial first; free via many libraries), with a completion certificate as a learning record. Distributed work is here to stay, so these skills keep mattering (as of 2026).

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About this course

This LinkedIn Learning course covers the specific challenges of leading distributed and remote teams: building trust without physical presence, establishing communication norms for asynchronous work, maintaining team culture virtually, managing performance through outcomes rather than activity, and running effective virtual meetings.

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Kevin Eikenberry
LinkedIn Learning instructor
80K+ learners6 courses4.6 instructor rating

Taught by leadership and organizational development specialists on LinkedIn Learning with research and practical experience in remote work effectiveness.

Frequently asked questions

Leading people who work remotely or across locations: building trust without face-to-face contact, communicating clearly across time zones and channels, running effective virtual meetings, keeping remote team members engaged and accountable, and managing performance at a distance. It focuses on the leadership and communication adjustments that distributed work demands, rather than any specific tool or platform.

Partly. Its focus is genuinely remote and distributed teams, where the challenges — trust, visibility, communication — are sharpest. Managers of in-person teams will still find useful ideas, especially for hybrid setups, but the emphasis is on the particular difficulties of leading people you rarely or never see in person, which is where it adds the most value.

New and experienced managers leading remote or hybrid teams, and anyone stepping into distributed-team leadership for the first time. It assumes no special background beyond some management context, so it suits team leads, project managers, and founders adapting to remote work. Individual contributors curious about what good remote leadership looks like may also find it useful.

Not by default — it runs on LinkedIn Learning, which is subscription-based — but a free trial is common, and many public libraries and universities give members full access at no cost. Check whether a library card or an institution you belong to already provides LinkedIn Learning before paying, since that quietly unlocks this course and the whole catalogue.

Yes, you earn a LinkedIn Learning completion certificate that attaches to your LinkedIn profile. Treat it as a signal of professional development rather than a formal management qualification — leadership is judged on how you actually lead, not a badge. The real value is the practical remote-management techniques, which show up in how your distributed team performs and feels.
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