Coaching & Mentoring Skills for Leaders in the Energy Industry – Powering People to Drive Performance

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Apply professional leadership and communication tools to enhance their effectiveness as coaches and mentors.
• Develop structured career and performance plans to optimise employee potential and productivity.
• Build strong and fair relationships with employees founded on trust, justice, and mutual respect.
• Set, monitor, and maintain performance goals that align individual and team objectives with organisational targets.
• Lead and support teams effectively in multiple roles, as Trainer, Coach, Mentor, Appraiser, and Sponsor.
• Conduct productive coaching conversations that strengthen motivation, accountability, and performance improvement.
• Foster a workplace culture of continuous learning, empowerment, and growth.

This course is ideal for:

• Organisations:
  • Companies in the oil & gas, power utilities and related sectors that aim to strengthen leadership capability, coaching culture, and workforce development across operational and managerial levels.
• Roles/Functions:
  • Line managers, superintendents, shift leaders, supervisors, team leaders, human resource practitioners, technical heads, and functional managers responsible for staff development and performance outcomes.
• Also suitable for:
  • Emerging leaders preparing for managerial roles and experienced managers seeking to refine their coaching and mentoring effectiveness.

• Basic

This highly participative training course combines leadership simulations, practical exercises, case discussions, and peer-learning activities. Participants will engage in realistic workplace scenarios and structured coaching conversations that reinforce the application of key leadership concepts. The use of interactive techniques ensures that participants gain both conceptual understanding and practical confidence to apply what they learn immediately in their workplace.

Your expert course instructor has been coaching leaders, managers, and supervisors in ExxonMobil & BP and other large organisations for more than 30 years. He has held various positions in Engineering, Logistics, Supply, Distribution, Safety and HR. In his previous capacity as Training Manager, he managed the company’s training system equivalent to People Developer, i.e. from Training Needs Analysis, Training & Development Programme Design, to actual training delivery. He designed and facilitated in many Organisational Effectiveness Intervention programmes including senior leadership team sessions. He also set up and successfully ran several cohorts of Team Leaders School as Dean. He is a management coach and an active member of the Organisational Development & Intervention fraternity.

He possesses a Master degree in Training and Performance Management. He also holds a Professional Certificate in Designing and Facilitating Experiential Learning from STADA. He has been delivering training for the last 30 years and held positions like Training Manager and Safety Management System Manager in his career. Whilst he was in the HR Department at ExxonMobil, he was involved in employee coaching and terminations. He was also the steward of the Performance Improvement Process for identified poor performers in ExxonMobil Chemical.

Later, in a senior public sector role, he developed a Coaching Framework and raised 28 internal executive coaches and put 160+ public officers at the Director level through coaching, saving the organisation $1.3 million in coaching fees and accelerated the success of newly promoted Directors in the public service.

Your expert course instructor also mentored 16 senior leaders in a chemical company in Brunei and guided their leadership performance through the company’s intense turnaround activities. He was most recently a Vice-President for Human Resources in a large organisation in Singapore, and Director of its Academy.

Unlock the potential of your workforce with customized in-house training programs designed specifically for the energy sector. Our tailored, in-house courses not only enhance employee skills and engagement but also offer significant cost savings by eliminating travel expenses. Invest in your team’s success and achieve specific outcomes aligned with your organization’s goals through our expert training solutions. Request for further information regarding our on-site or in-house training opportunities.

In our ongoing commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility, we will no longer providing hard copy training materials. Instead, all training content and resources will be delivered in digital format. Inspired by the oil and energy industry’s best practices, we are leveraging on digital technologies to reduce waste, lower our carbon emissions, ensuring our training content is always up-to-date and accessible. Click here to learn more.

To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized “One to One” coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster.
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