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Results of 2024
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16+
years in the soft skills
training market
500+
corporate clients
16+
years in the soft skills
training market
400
corporate clients
At Stratoplan,
we give every manager, CEO, and company the support and guidance they need to take their management expertise to the next level

We offer a safe environment for you and your employees to build skills and experience that will help you tackle complex management and business challenges

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We know how and when to develop valuable human resources. Drawing on our years of experience and expertise in teaching soft skills, we help you and your employees make the right career moves — with programmes tailored to the needs of modern business.

What problems can
we help you solve?

For managers
For businesses
  • Struggling to receive a promotion or salary increase
  • Feeling unprepared for an unexpected promotion
  • Not getting a raise
  • Being overlooked for interesting projects or prevented from building your team
  • Deadlines constantly being missed despite all your efforts
  • Feeling like everything depends on you while others lack motivation
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  • Slow or unpredictable company growth
  • Employees stagnating or leaving unexpectedly
  • Facing a talent shortage at critical moments
  • Poor communication among employees and with clients
  • Clients reporting issues to you due to employee inefficiency
  • High staff turnover or costly hiring processes
  • Lack of clear strategy and not knowing how to create one
Team Management Tools
Total program length depends on the number of modules chosen.
Each module lasts 10 hours
(2 days × 5 hours)
Initial Team Audit
Questions the module will answer:
  • What should be the first actions of a team leader or manager when they are assigned to a team?
  • What are the dynamics of the group?
  • Do these people really form a team?
  • What aspects of group dynamics and applied sociology should you know, in order to ensure your position as group leader and to avoid any initially inappropriate relationship with the team?
What you’ll learn:
  • Tuckman: team dynamics
  • Mammoth: team goals
  • Bern: the team boundaries and resistance
  • Litvak: leadership types and team types
  • Battery: team resource level
  • DISC: applied behavior typology
Team communication (constructive confrontation)
Questions the module will answer:
  • How is team management connected to task management and working with people?
  • Is communication the main tool in working with people?
  • What are sustainable agreements? How can they be achieved? And how can you change the behavior of a person without manipulation?
  • How can we negotiate?
What you’ll learn:
  • The principles of Constructiveness
  • The algorithm for constructive confrontation
  • Conscious rejection of manipulation
  • The algorithm of decision-making for the Head or Team Leader (Tree)
  • DISC: arguments that are listened to
  • Battery: When a team member is in energy saving mode
Interviewing, hiring, and firing
Questions the module will answer:
  • The selection and recruitment of team members can be a task for a team leader or manager as the founder of the team, or it can be a task that follows the team leader’s inclusion to the team.
  • While a technical interview is something even inexperienced managers feel able to handle, identifying the suitability of personal characteristics and soft skills is usually more challenging.
What you’ll learn:
  • The ideal deal candidate profile
  • Personal interview
  • DISC: profile and role matching
  • Battery: How not to hire a burned out or toxic employee
  • Projective questions: how to "get into the head” of a candidate
  • Deciding to raise or revise the salary or position
  • Mistake and misconduct
  • When to part with an employee
Task setting, task control, delegation
Questions the module will answer:
  • What is the difference between task setting and delegation?
  • At what point does the alignment of control types happen?
  • What determines the type of control for each specific task?
What you’ll learn:
  • 5 Supervision Types
  • 7 Delegation Levels
  • Injustice in Assessment: Demotivation and more
  • Battery: Link between Resource Levels and Supervision Types
  • DISC: Link between Behavior Typology and Task Types
  • Work Tool: Supervision Type Table
Controlling Team Dynamics and Feedback
Questions the module will answer:
  • The team is working. Tasks are being set and executed. Communications are not interrupted. Daily group and personal rituals and operations are established. Still there remains one no less important activity - to monitor the current state of the team and provide timely corrective and developmental feedback. This particular aspect is often neglected by leaders and managers with a technical background. The most useful means of managing this important area are regular 1-1 meetings using supportive tools and protocols.
What you’ll learn:
  • Technique: 1-1 meetings
  • Technique Expansion: Skip level 1-1
  • The Battery Tool: how to use in 1-1 Meetings when preparing Development Plans
  • Tool (Matrix) "Interest — Competence"
  • Tool "$10,000 Questionnaire" (29 Motivational Factors)
  • Behavior Change: Constructive Confrontation in practice in 1-1 Meetings
  • Gallup Questionnaire: Evaluation of Managers
  • Motivation, demotivation
Negotiations module "Defending the Team, Project and Processes"
Questions the module will answer:
  • Establishing the process and delivering results is the main responsibility of a team leader or a manager. We work in the real world, we have internal competition for resources, where you have to protect the project and convince colleagues from other departments or company management in some decisions.
    What does "territory control" means and includes? How to protect the team, the process, and the project for the benefit of the common goal and company interests.
  • Upward communications: choosing argumentation and “selling” solutions
  • Customer and Management communications (trust and transparency)
  • Horizontal communication
  • Communication with problem employees
  • Defending Against Attacks: Protocol and Practice
Format:
  • Online
  • Theory and practice in small groups with a dedicated facilitator from the School
  • Groups for practice of 8+ participants
  • Option to choose modules tailored to your needs
Duration:
  • Total program length depends on the number of modules chosen
  • Each module lasts 10 hours (2 days × 5 hours)
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In a customized program, you may choose all 6 modules or only those ones that address your objectives.
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Minimum number of modules in a customized program is 2.
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The program will be fully tailored to your needs: we will prepare practical cases adapted to your business specifics and the challenges your team faces.
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In customized format, each module concludes with a supervision session (review and adjustment) + a session for analyzing participants’ real work cases (optional, if enough cases are collected)
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Each participant receives a personal account with lifetime access to all course materials including recordings of the training sessions
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The maximum number of participants is 30. Groups of more than 30 participants are discussed separately.

Some statistics

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clients — IT-companies or IT departments
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reaching the finish line in open long-term projects
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students come to the next projects or bring their colleagues and employees
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8.9–9.5 from 10 points — average rating of open long-term projects
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some companies train with us 5th generation of their managers
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