High-Impact Agile Leadership for Hybrid Teams
Course overview
About this course
Hybrid work is now a core part of how many organizations operate. When leaders know how to enable hybrid teams with agility, they become essential contributors who help their organizations stay resilient, innovative, and productive.
This course gives you the techniques and expertise to help hybrid teams thrive. Effective hybrid agile leadership helps you:
- Build trust across distance and time zones
- Keep team members aligned, informed, and included
- Improve collaboration so people can innovate and solve problems together
- Create space for creativity
- Support resilience, adaptability, and continuous improvement in hybrid work
Time: 4 hours
Format: On demand
Credential: You'll receive a Northwestern and Scrum Alliance microcredential for High-Impact Agile Leadership for Hybrid Teams.
Prerequisites: None
What you'll get: Practical strategies for leading hybrid teams with agility, plus a lifetime microcredential to showcase your skills. Nonmembers receive a two-year Scrum Alliance membership.
Who should take this course?
If you lead or support hybrid teams, or work in one, this course will help you create an environment where people feel connected, trusted, and able to do their best work from anywhere. It is especially valuable for agile professionals, yet the skills apply across roles, industries, and organizational structures.
Ideal for:
Scrum masters
Product owners
Agile coaches and practitioners
Team leaders and managers working with remote or blended teams
Professionals who understand agile and want to apply it effectively in hybrid environments
Anyone responsible for guiding collaboration and delivery across distance
Course modules
List the characteristics of a hybrid team
Identify a hybrid team
Describe common challenges facing hybrid project teams
Recognize and address common facilitation challenges in hybrid project teams
Facilitate development of inclusive team norms and psychological safety
Design strategies to address location issues, time zone issues, and team isolation
Deploy strategies to build trust and connection within a hybrid project team
Choose the right communication channels for different types of collaboration
Design strategies to address communication gaps and establish effective feedback loops
Design workflows that support both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration
Establish effective collaboration cadences and core working hours
Visualize and manage work using digital tools
Create an environment of continuous improvement for hybrid team communication practices
Describe agile values and principles
Identify how hybrid environments impact agile cadence, flow, and team dynamics
Map hybrid team challenges to agile principles
Create a hybrid workflow playbook tailored to their team’s needs
Modify the workflows in response to changes in their team’s needs
Identify how hybrid environments impact scrum accountabilities or jobs and events, sprint rhythm, and communication loops
Facilitate inclusive scrum events in a hybrid environment: daily scrum or sync, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, sprint planning and backlog refinement activities
Identify challenges in backlog visibility and prioritization in hybrid teams
Differentiate between synchronous and asynchronous planning techniques
List characteristics / core requirements for digital tools to support scrum events
Scrum Alliance + Northwestern University
Practical training from trusted leaders, built for today’s hybrid, agile workplace.
Scrum Alliance and Northwestern University School of Professional Studies have partnered to bring you this course on agile leadership in hybrid environments. It is designed for professionals who need to make hybrid work effective, not just functional.
Level up your agility with a learning experience that reflects the realities of distributed work and modern organizations.
What this means for you:
A reputable credential backed by two trusted institutions
Actionable strategies grounded in agile thinking and organizational science
Skills you can apply immediately with hybrid, remote, and co-located teams
Content shaped by practitioners who work with hybrid teams every day
Practical, leadership-focused training that helps you become an essential enabler of hybrid work
Unmatched quality and scale
"Simply amazing learning experience!"
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Is a microcredential worth it?
Microcredentials are a great way to continually add new skills with fast and flexible formats. Here are just a few reasons microcredential training is a worthwhile investment for you and your team.
- Focused expertise — gain specialized knowledge in a specific area
- Flexible learning — learn the way you prefer by choosing from live or on-demand learning formats
- Cost-effective — typically less expensive than certifications or degree programs
- Relevant — topics prioritized to cover industry trends and emerging technologies
- Expedient — earn a credential in hours as opposed to weeks, months, or years
- Recognizable — validated by Scrum Alliance, a globally recognized credentialing body
- Practical — build skills and knowledge immediately applicable in your role
- Stackable — combine microcredentials to build comprehensive learning pathways
This course equips you with agile practices and leadership approaches tailored to hybrid environments. You will learn how to improve communication, increase transparency, and structure collaboration so people can contribute fully regardless of where they work. You will leave with practical tools and strategies you can apply with your team right away.
Hybrid work introduces complexity across time zones, tools, and cultures. Agile principles and practices provide not only an approach but also the transparency and frequent feedback that help teams stay aligned and engaged. This course shows you how to use agile values and practices to support hybrid teams so they can deliver value consistently and adapt to change while having a voice and active role on their team.
In hybrid settings, you cannot rely on informal hallway conversations or shared physical space to keep people aligned. Communication needs to be more intentional, workflows need to be visible, and meetings need to be inclusive for everyone, whether they are in the room or joining online. This course helps you adjust how you plan work, run scrum events, and communicate so hybrid team members are able to do what they do best.
While the course is grounded in agile principles and the scrum framework, it is designed for anyone who leads or supports hybrid teams. Whether you are an agile practitioner or a leader in a different context, you will find practical strategies for improving collaboration, trust, and delivery across distance.
By the end of the course, you will be able to lead hybrid teams more effectively. You will know how to structure communication, adapt scrum events and agile practices, and address common hybrid challenges before they become barriers. You will gain skills that make you an organizational enabler, someone who helps hybrid work succeed and supports innovation, resilience, and productivity in your organization.
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Become the agile leader who helps hybrid work succeed across your organization.