Entry Level Program Tailored to Your Corporate Needs

Sopu Essentials

  • Intensive Entry Level Program
  • 4 Half Days / 2 Full Days
  • Online or Face to Face

Organizations around the world trust us.

Increase harmony in your organization with Sopu Essentials

  • Discover “sopu”, Finland’s win-win approach.
  • Achieve your goals with technology-supported, up-to-date educational approaches.
  • Learn by doing with a highly interactive training setup.
  • Reinforce your theoretical knowledge in a safe environment with simulations.

  • Experience a comprehensive learning journey with a training tailored specifically for you.

A must-have for all organisations:

Negotiation and Teamwork

Sopu Essentials is designed to solve common operational and communication problems faced by companies in different sectors. The program helps teams develop efficient and effective collaborations, manage conflicts constructively and improve their processes.

Organised in 2 full or 4 half days according to your needs, this program aims to develop proactive problem solving approaches in organisations.

Inspired by Finland’s win-win focused sopu approach, Sopu Essentials has a highly interactive and fun flow. Bring Sopu Academy programs to your team and discover harmony at work!

For whom?

Onboarding/MT Programs

First Steps: Rapid Adaptation to the Business World

Accelerate your employees’ onboarding process and provide new team members with the basic communication skills they will need at the beginning.

Sales Professionals

Sales Excellence: Strengthening Customer Relationships

Resolve communication problems in customer relations and establish long-term bonds with your customers through effective negotiation techniques.

Team Leaders and Managers

Leadership Guide: Mastering Team Management

Increase the leadership skills of your managers and team leaders, strengthen the dynamics within the team and turn conflicts into opportunities.

Customer Relations Professionals

Customer Satisfaction: Building Lasting Connections

Increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and enable customer relations professionals to deliver more effective and constructive solutions.

Training Process

Self-Assessment and Needs Analysis

Training programs begin with the Sopu Self-Assessment Inventory developed by our team. Based on the results of the inventory, the training program is lightly customised to accommodate the actual needs of the team.

Our theoretical content, developed in collaboration with the world’s leading institutions, is presented synchronously and asynchronously throughout the training. Participants reinforce theoretical topics with practical exercises.

Weekly 45-minute practice sessions: Simulations customized to your team’s work area provide a safe environment for transferring theoretical parts to daily life. Constructive feedback with the Sopu App mobile application accelerates the team’s development.

After the program, reports prepared specifically for each participant ensure the continuity of the development process. A holistic perspective is presented with training performance, expert feedback and self-evaluation studies.

A Sample Program Flow:

Teamwork in Technology Companies

Sopu Essentials programs are customized according to your industry and team profile.

Simulations in the training include problems that the team frequently encounters. Theoretical topics are selected from a wide range according to your requests.

Introduction: Constructive Feedback Culture

Objective: Exploring constructive feedback dynamics for high-performing technical teams

Main Topics

  • Introduction and Warm-Up
  • Giving and Receiving Feedback
  • Constructive Feedback Methods
  • Accepting Feedback and Development

Activity

  • Group discussions and introductions: Participants share with each other the problems they experience in giving feedback in technical teams and highlight the difficulties and results.

Fundamentals of Negotiation in a Teamwork

Objective: Being able to construct a path to a win-win solution in solving technical problems.

Main Topics

  • Your tone of voice as a negotiation instrument
  • The essential elements of win-win solutions
  • Active listening and trust-building techniques

Simulation

  • Solutions for Technical Debt: A software development team disagrees on when to address technical debt. In this simulation, participants search for a compromise between long-term goals and immediate demands.

Fairness: The First Step for Winning Together

Objective: Learning the importance of fairness to solve complex problems in teamwork.

Main Topics

  • Tactical use of the concept of fairness in communication
  • Positively managing conflicting expectations of justice
  • Collaborative problem-solving techniques

Simulation

  • Workload Distribution Among Team Members: The fact that some team members feel that they are constantly given more challenging tasks affects team dynamics. The team needs to  distribute the workload for a balanced and fair solution.

Managing Complex Problems Across Teams

Objective: Being able to find a common solution in situations where many interconnected issues are discussed with different stakeholders.

Main Topics

  • Group dynamics in complex problem solving
  • Psychological traps in professional meetings
  • Expanding the pie vs. fixed pie problems

Simulation

  • Product development schedule: The meeting between the software team, the sales team and the product manager to clarify the product development schedule. The participants try to discover the optimal solution for everyone.

About the Trainer

Semih Ersöz

Semih Ersöz, CEO of Sopu Academy, completed MSc. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management at Aalto University, and BSc. in Management Engineering at Istanbul Technical University.

He has designed and implemented entrepreneurship and negotiation-focused trainings throughout his career. Before founding Sopu Academy, he worked as an educator and coordinator in different units of Aalto University, one of Northern Europe’s leading institutions. He also worked as a coordinator at İTÜ Çekirdek, one of Türkiye’s leading entrepreneurship centres.

Semih Ersöz has consulting experience in several investment funds, NGOs and startups from Finland and Turkey. He still supports Helsinki University incubation programs, Helsinki Education Hub and İTÜ Çekirdek as a mentor and a coach.

As an integration program run by the city of Helsinki, it is very important for us to offer our participants skills and tools they can use when settling in both socially and professionally. Sopu Academy’s workshop on Negotiation Skills gave us the wonderful opportunity to do exactly that.
Jochen Faugel, City of Helsinki Project Planner - International Talents Acceleration
It was so enjoyable that I wished this 4-day program had lasted longer. The details of the program were thought out very thoroughly; we completed these four days without any issues. I can say it was one of the best investments I’ve made for myself lately. I definitely recommend others to try this as well.
Naz Yıkılmaz, Project Manager at Unilever
I’ve never experienced such a dynamic training in both my personal and professional life. It was an exploration of my own communication and negotiation skills.
Sezin Finns, Vice Principal at Hisar Schools
Cooperation with Sopu Academy is always rewarding! Their exercises inspire young people with up-to-date concepts. Theory and practice in the programs are in the right ratio. it’s great how young people bravely take on tasks and get to know each other at the same time.
Jenni Korte, Teacher at Etu-Töölön lukio - Finnish nominee in Teacher of the Year Award/TOP10 in Europe
Markus Lorenz
It was a great experience for students and it will help them in their future careers. I can definitely recommend it to every other educational institution.
Markus Lorenz, Business Educator at BHAK BHAS Hallein & Regional Coordinator of Salzburg, Austria
Sopu Academy enhances our negotiation skills through hands-on practice with various scenarios every day. It covers negotiation at both individual and societal levels, offering participants valuable experiences.
Esen Şen, Psychologist

Why Sopu Academy?

sopu app

Technology-supported educational experience

Enrich your learning journey with our mobile application Sopu App, developed with the latest technologies specifically for our training programs.

Negotiation approaches of Northern Europe

Discover win-win solutions that leave no one behind with our unique educational content inspired by Finland’s “sopu” approach.

Helsinki education

Building knowledge through hands-on learning

Experience globally recognized, innovative educational approaches developed in collaboration with leading European universities.

Training Contents

Negotiation Techniques

One of the most important elements of achieving success in today’s business world and social life is to have effective negotiation skills.

Consensus Building

Consensus building training stands out as an effective method for resolving disagreements in personal and professional life.

Communication Skills

Communication is a process that plays a central role in human life and enables the effective transfer of thoughts and feelings to the other party.

Conflict Management

In the business world, the coming together of different people and ideas can naturally lead to various conflicts.

Persuasion Techniques

Persuasion techniques refer to the ability of individuals to influence others towards an idea, behavior or decision.

Teamwork

One of the key to success in the modern business world is the ability of employees to work effectively as a team.

Empathy

Empathy training is a skill-building program that is becoming increasingly important in the modern business world.

Personal Development

Personal development training is an educational process that helps individuals achieve more successful, productive and satisfying results in their lives.

Social Skills

Social skills are a set of competencies that enable people to communicate with each other effectively and harmoniously.

Contact us!

We are ready to meet you to start your learning journey.

Let’s find the most suitable solutions for your team.