[100% Off] Turnaround Strategy: Stabilize, Diagnose And Rebuild

Added on November 11, 2026 Business 4 min read

What you’ll learn

Lead a recovery in the right order: take 320 templates
procedures
question lists and checklists in 41 downloadable resources,Decide what to stabilise now and what to rebuild with the Stabilize or Build Decision Workbook,Separate stopping the bleeding from fixing the cause
and sequence them,Cut payroll and benefits in the order that does the least damage,Find where profitability actually failed with Pareto
the theory of constraints and a breakdown of revenue and cost,Rebuild the financial model and turn strategy into concrete targets and a budget,Find the process black holes that consume money without producing output,Keep the people you need with a retention programme and calculate what turnover costs,Deliver bad news through the right channels so the strongest people do not leave first,Learn with Mike
the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments
170,000 students
about 200 books on Amazon

Requirements

A business
unit or team in difficulty
or responsibility for one,No finance background required: the models are introduced from the start,A spreadsheet for the workbook and the financial calculations,English at intermediate level or above
since all lessons are in English

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Cutting costs is not a turnaround. It buys time and answers none of the questions about why the business stopped earning. Here are 320 tools for a real recovery: 234 ready-to-use templates, procedures, question lists, checklists and matrices, 78 models and methods, 7 services shown on screen and the Stabilize or Build Decision Workbook.

Open a lecture, take the tool, apply it to the part of the business that hurts most.

Why most turnarounds fail

The company cuts first, because cutting is fast and visible. Six months later the costs return as overtime and contractors, output falls further, and the people who could have fixed it have taken other offers: a badly communicated reduction tells the strongest people exactly when to start looking. Nobody has found where profitability broke, so the second round of cuts is as blind as the first.

What changes after this course

You stabilise first with cuts in the least damaging order, then diagnose the real problem and where the damage is concentrated. You rebuild the economics, goals and metrics, keep the people the recovery depends on and communicate so that bad news does not turn into an exit wave.

What is inside: 320 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

41 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus the Stabilize or Build Decision Workbook
234 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
72 templates and sample documents: risk register with mitigation, problem statement canvas, pilot experiment canvas, strategy map
65 step-by-step procedures and workflows: SAFE-24 stabilization playbook, root cause diagnosis, bottleneck diagnosis, operational cash flow forecasting
34 question lists and scripts: profit loss diagnosis, revenue diagnosis, cost prioritization, zero-based position necessity assessment
31 checklists: bad-news communication, root cause validation, rapid experiment design, troubleshooting pitfalls
23 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: dismiss or retain decisions, intervention cost and effort, impact-effort matrix, TOWS matrix
6 formulas and metric sets: process bottleneck metrics, unit economics metrics, financial KPI calculations
3 other working tools: problem versus trouble decision tree, TRIZ contradiction classification guide, business symptom to framework selection
78 models and methods explained with examples: SWOT analysis, business model canvas, Lean Six Sigma, cash conversion cycle
7 services shown on screen, including Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Loom and Workvivo

Where the tools are

Stabilising (2 sections, 69 tools). Stopping the bleeding, hard calls and restoring stability.
Diagnosis (4 sections, 141 tools). Framing the real problem, where the damage is concentrated, stuck problems, group work and recovery frameworks.
Rebuilding the economics (4 sections, 35 tools). The financial model, purpose, processes, goals, strategy, budget, metrics and scale.
Keeping the people you need (2 sections, 44 tools). Retention risks and the retention programme.
Communicating through it (2 sections, 46 tools). Messages, channels, bad news and measurement.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe. I am also a founder and lead the strategy of my own academy.

At Alfa-Bank I saw the bank grow from 1,000 to 6,000 employees and then shrink back to about 1,000 in the 2008 crisis; I helped people who were let go find new jobs. At the STB TV channel, through 2013 and 2014 with no salary reviews for two years, we kept turnover almost flat: it rose by only about two percentage points.

How to use the course

Start with the workbook and the stabilising sections, then move to diagnosis, the economics, people and communication in the order the recovery needs them. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

42 lectures across 15 sections, 23 hours
41 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and the decision workbook
320 tools across the lessons
Lifetime access to all materials
Active instructor support in the Q&A section
A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Write down the three people your recovery cannot lose, and what would make each of them leave next month. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.

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