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IHETC Executive Education

Certificate in Leading Distributed Teams

Lead teams you do not see daily — without surveilling them.

Entry level
Professional certification
Award
Professional certificate
Duration
4 months
Actual work
12 h/week
Pace
Compatible with a job
Tuition
2 800 000 GNF in total

A certificate for managers whose teams are spread across several sites, projects or branches. It covers what on-site management does not: setting a checkable expectation remotely, deciding without having seen the situation, and holding together a team you meet once a month.

Learning objectives

  • Set a checkable expectation without being there to observe it
  • Hold a short, regular check-in that replaces presence without imitating it
  • Address a performance gap remotely, before it becomes a conflict
  • Move information between sites without adding a meeting

Curriculum

120 hours · 12 credits

Year 1120 hours

  1. Leading a team

    30 hours · 3 credits

    Roles, objectives, useful meetings, delegation, follow-up

  2. Reviews and appraisal

    30 hours · 3 credits

    The annual review, the professional interview, corrective conversations, recognition

  3. Conflict and difficult situations

    30 hours · 3 credits

    Analysis, mediation, sanction, return to work

  4. The legal framework of management

    30 hours · 3 credits

    Contracts, working time, discipline, harassment, the manager's obligations

Real prerequisite

What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.

Supervising a team, however small, however informally. With no real situation to work on between sessions, the practical work runs empty — the format demands it, it is not a formality.

Entry requirements

  • Open to working managers, all sectors
  • No academic requirement
  • Actually supervising a team for the duration of the certificate

Career outcomes

  • Multi-site team leader
  • Branch or site manager
  • Operations coordinator
  • Contractor supervisor

Skills acquired

  • Checkable expectations
  • Follow-up conversations
  • Handling gaps
  • Cross-site communication

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Certificate in Leading Distributed Teams — IHETC