Strapi’s values (Genuine Humility👂 and Measured Ambition 📈) support your growth. To help you accomplish your developmental goals, Strapi provides resources such as a learning budget and learning hours. You are encouraged to take ownership of your development and seek learning opportunities to help you succeed in your role, expand your knowledge and develop your skills.
Strapi believes that giving you the right support at the right moment can make a big difference in your personal and professional development.
You are encouraged to test, experiment, take risks, try new things, and pursue your mission. And if you make a mistake? Let's learn from it, and share your journey with the team (#failing-is-learning
channel).
3 Types of Learning at Strapi
Global
- Budget: $170,000 (subject to annual review)
- Includes: technical or soft-skill training.
- Budget: $700 per team-member
- Budget: $750 per year (712€ in 2023)
Individual Learning - Precisions
Strapi encourages Strapiers to use their training budget with Care & Ownership.
💡 Spending Framework: You may use your budget for any training that can help improve your professional performance and is aligned with StrapiValues
Strapi fully encourages all formats of training and learning as long as it fits within the framework. In addition to technical, field-related training, you can also explore diversity, language, emotional intelligence, and personal development courses. Please consider what learning would be the most helpful in your role. E.g. courses for languages that are not used in your work are great developmental activities, however, most probably there is training that would have a better direct impact on your success at Strapi. Any books purchased with your training budget will belong to you.
🔎 You can verify your remaining budget in the Individual Learning dashboard at any moment.
The learning budget is allocated for the calendar year. Any unused budget cannot be transferred to the following year.
Strapiers who joined during the year, receive an individual learning budget proportional to the number of calendar days between their start date and the end of the year.
- Strapi contributes a portion of its global payroll to a state-sponsored training program, called DIF (this is a legal obligation in France).
- When you use your DIF budget, Strapi can "top up" the portion of the training expense not covered by your DIF by using your Individual training budget.
- As a company, Strapi can negotiate preferential prices for certain training courses (e.g. for English classes we work with Forma+ and can obtain more training hours for your DIF budget). Let us know if you have something in mind.
- You may use your DIF as you want: Strapi cannot and will not force you to use it in any particular way. It is 100% personal and does not belong to Strapi.
How to use the Individual Learning budget?
Each year, Strapi has a budget for a specific number of employees provided by ATLAS. This budget and number of employees will vary yearly from the previous one. Both numbers are provided by the French government and can’t be negotiated by companies.
Some pieces of training are eligible to be partially refunded by this organism. They have to be referenced as “Qualiopi”.
- If you wish to know if your training is eligible, please check the catalog: https://campus.opco-atlas.fr/
- If your training is referenced, please contact @Laurine RENELIER to check if there is still some budget and places left.
- Your email address
- Name of the training/conference/meetup/book/etc.
- Learning provider - e.g. name of the company organizing training/conference/meetup or book author
- Learning description/objectives to give others the idea of what’s that learning about
#learning
channel.Encourage your team members to use their learning budget to develop skills that will help them succeed in their roles and achieve their ambitions. Support them in identifying the areas they could focus their learning on. 1:1 meetings are perfect opportunity for such discussions 🙏
Learning Hours
Sometimes training requires more time than money. In addition to the training budget, Strapi offers each Strapier (excluding Interns) 40 hours (equivalent to 5 days, 1 day = 8 hours) to take off and dedicate to learning.
Any unused time cannot be transferred to the following year.
How to take learning hours/days off?
- Your email address - it’s going to be used for reporting purposes and email notifications, so ensure that it’s correct!
- Your Manager email address - just select from the list
- Name of the training/conference/meetup/book/etc.
- Learning provider - e.g. name of the company organizing training/conference/meetup or book author
- Learning description/objectives
- Number of hours you are requesting
- Start date
- End date - if you are taking hours off on one day only - start and end date will be the same
- Anything else to add? - this is optional question; please add there any other relevant information e.g. if you are going to spread hours off across days, please specify it there
#learning
channel.✅ If all is fine - select YES in “Manager’s approval” column
❌ If the request doesn’t meet all requirements - select NO in “Manager’s approval” column and support your team member in adjusting their learning plan
Team Learning Budget
The Head of Department is responsible for managing Team training. However, feel free to take the initiative and propose the training you think the whole team could benefit from!
#learning
channel:- Name of the training
- Provider
- Cost - please include the amount in USD. If you are going to pay in different currency, please convert the amount to USD at the current exchange rate.
- Learning description/objectives
- Duration or dates (if training will be completed synchronously)
#finance-payments
channel 🙏#learning
channelCross-Team Learning
If you would like to invite other team members for the training that you are organizing for your team, please agree on how it will be paid. You can consider two options:
- Your team’s learning budget covers 100% of the cost
- A portion of the cost is allocated to the additional participants’ team training budget << must be confirmed with Head of each Department involved
Inform the People Team & Finance Team (@team-finance) about it in #l
earning
channel.
While submitting invoice for payment please select your Department cost center. In the comment please indicate how the costs should be split between cost centers (Departments). If there is a delay in obtaining/submitting the invoice, please inform Finance Team in #finance-payments
channel 🙏
Global Learning Budget
People Team manages global training. You can check in the Compensation & Benefits Dashboard how much the budget is already spent.
If you have any idea for the training that the whole Strapi would benefit from, propose it to People Team in #learning
channel.
Training recommendations
- Udemy – Online courses with a range of topics
- Skillshare – Online courses for creators
- Highbrow – Get 5-minute lessons delivered to your inbox every morning
- Datacamp – Learn Data Science online
- Lynda – Online courses, classes, training, and tutorials
- Treehouse – Learn Web Design, Coding, and more
- EggHead
- OpenClassRooms
- FrontEndMasters
- https://www.educative.io/explore
- https://www.shinebootcamp.com/foundations
- Strapi works with - Monceau langues for English classes and so far is happy (@Pierre Wizla, @Maeva Lienard, @Hicham El Abbassi & @Fanny Le Gallou) with the results and we can negotiate group prices. - Intercountry (tested and validated by @Pierre Burgy, @Jim Laurie & @Aurélien GEORGET).
- Elysées langues also have been tested and recommended (by @Fanny Le Gallou)
- The Babbel learning app is also highly recommended for personal daily practice.
- 8 websites to learn English: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/best-websites-to-learn-english/
#learning
or contact @Marzena BRZOZKO