--- title: Leading Remote Teams description: Leading remote teams involves managing and supporting employees who work from different locations. Learners will understand how to establish communication protocols, maintain team cohesion, and track performance across different time zones and digital workspaces. category: personal-development subcategory: leadership difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/leading-remote-teams --- # Leading Remote Teams Leading remote teams involves managing and supporting employees who work from different locations. Learners will understand how to establish communication protocols, maintain team cohesion, and track performance across different time zones and digital workspaces. ## Available Resources 3 Books • 1 Courses • 4 Websites ## Websites ### 1. GitLab Remote Work Handbook GitLab documents publicly how a company of thousands operates with no offices: hiring, onboarding, async communication, meeting norms, and compensation. Readers can copy concrete policies and see the tradeoffs an all-remote structure actually imposes. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/company/culture/all-remote/ **Tags:** remote-work, all-remote, async-communication, company-handbook, management ### 2. Basecamp Remote Work Guide Basecamp's page for REMOTE: Office Not Required, the Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson book arguing against the office. Sets out their case for hiring anywhere, managing by output, and the failure modes distributed companies hit. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://basecamp.com/remote **Tags:** remote-work, distributed-teams, management, company-culture, basecamp ### 3. remote.co Remote.co is a resource hub for remote work offering news, expert articles, practical guides on remote team management, and remote job listings. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://remote.co **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship ### 4. hbr.org Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://hbr.org **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ## Podcasts ### 1. The Collaboration Superpowers Podcast **Author:** Lisette Sutherland Long-running interview podcast hosted by Lisette Sutherland with managers, facilitators and companies that run distributed teams. Episodes cover remote and hybrid team agreements, virtual meetings, communication tools and trust-building, giving listeners practical approaches for leading and working in teams spread across locations. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com **Tags:** remote-work, distributed-teams, hybrid-work, virtual-collaboration, team-management ### 2. Distributed, with Matt Mullenweg **Author:** Matt Mullenweg Matt Mullenweg, cofounder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, embarks on a journey to understand the future of work. Having built his own company with no offices and more than 1,300 employees in 76 countries, speaking 95 different languages, Mullenweg examines the benefits and challenges of distributed work and recruiting talented people around the globe. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://distributed.blog **Tags:** remote-work, distributed-teams, company-culture, management ### 3. The Remote Work Tribe Podcast **Author:** Jessica Malnik Interview podcast hosted by Jessica Malnik in which managers and leaders of remote-first companies share how they run distributed teams, covering communication, team culture and day-to-day management. Listeners pick up practical tactics for leading people across locations and time zones. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.theremoteworktribe.com/ **Tags:** remote-work, distributed-teams, remote-leadership, team-management, hybrid-work ## Books ### 1. Remote: Office Not Required **Author:** Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson Fried and Hansson argue the case for distributed work from Basecamp's own practice, addressing objections about trust, collaboration, and culture. Short chapters give managers concrete habits for hiring, communicating, and measuring output rather than hours. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0091954673?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, leadership ### 2. The Long-Distance Leader **Author:** Kevin Eikenberry & Wayne Turmel Eikenberry and Turmel apply ordinary leadership principles to remote settings, arguing distance changes tools rather than fundamentals. The book offers models and exercises for building trust, coaching, and holding attention when you rarely share a room with your team. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1523094613?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, leadership ### 3. Leading at a Distance **Author:** James M. Citrin & Darleen DeRosa Drawing on executive search research and interviews with senior leaders, the authors cover hiring, onboarding, and running teams virtually. Practical chapters address building trust quickly, running effective virtual meetings, and sustaining culture without physical proximity. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119782449?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, leadership ## Courses ### 1. Managing Remote Teams GitLab's Coursera course on all-remote work, taught by Darren Murph, covering remote best practices, adapting an organization to distributed work, and building culture. Learners finish by outlining a concrete remote transition plan for their own team. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/remote-team-management **Tags:** courses, business-entrepreneurship, leadership --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/leading-remote-teams