2020 has been a year in which Yıldırım Academy continued its training activities mostly online. While classroom trainings were transformed into an online classroom model, the Training Module was enriched by adding new contents. In addition, Academy roadmap has been created for 2021 with the determination of the needs that emerged as a result of the Training & Development Needs Analysis meetings were held with the departments in September.


In November 2020, Stress & Time Management training, the first training of the modular training program created specifically for the Global Logistics Center department, was completed in 6 groups in the online classroom format with the teams. In the training given with the trainer Begüm Kocaefe; stress, the effects of stress on the brain and body, methods of coping with stress, and time management tips were discussed. In 2021, the program will continue with trainings on “Customer Experience, Being a Team and Understanding Each Other, Cultural Intelligence”.

The “Finance for Buyers” training, which is the last training of the CIPS: Purchasing School program, another of the department-specific training programs, was conducted online in December and the program was completed in 6 modules for the entire Purchasing department.

Relationship Management Based on Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Management trainings, which were organized throughout the organization in the previous periods, was organized in December for the specialist level employees who have not yet received it and were completed in 11 groups in total.

The webinar themed “Resilience in Hard Times” was conducted by Franklin Covey TR with 80 participants from terminals in Region TR, HQ AND employees of Yildirim Group companies. While discussing the concept of resilience in the webinar, suggestions were shared to increase emotional endurance capacity in uncertain and stressful periods.

Due to the pandemic, with the start of working from home in November, it will be able to support training and development processes; The “Online Training Booklet”, which includes many online platform suggestions from art, science, library archives and virtual museums, was shared with employees.

In addition to these, new Turkish and English E-Learnings were shared with the employees in Region TR through HRZONE Learning Module. It is aimed to enrich Yıldırım Academy’s e-learning library, which includes titles such as Stress, Time, Meeting Management, by adding new contents in 2021 and to increase its active use.

Employees were informed about mobile usage in order to provide access to HRZONE Training module anytime and anywhere. Thus, in 2021, new contents will take their place in the HRZONE Training Module and will be accessible anytime, anywhere, with any device.