Transforming capability development from a tightly regulated process into a self driven capability management eco-system.
An upstream technical skill group of a national oil company in South East Asia had identified that its existing
competency assessment & development process had the following features which they wanted to enhance:
- Capability development is compartmentalized, disciplined focused & disproportionately technical
- Capability development is lagging behind in business and portfolio strategy
- Development is organisation managed, thriving on control and governance
- Competency Assessment lacks consistency, hence, result doesn’t reflect true potential
A project team was formed to address current pain points and transform the process into a line driven system
with the following desired criteria:
- Broad capability development effort especially during the early years
- Development that is tightly linked to business and portfolio strategy
- Self-managed development through empowerment of staff and supervisors to meet specific role of the job
- Objective competency assessment through the provision of enhanced process control & upskilling of
assessors
EnergyEdge was engaged to help strengthen the competency assessment process through the provision of the
following services:
- Conduct a situation analysis to identify strengths and areas of improvement of the existing process
- Illustrate the current state vs the desired state, once the process is transformed
- Document the desired Competency Assessment process and develop guidelines for assessors and assessees
- Develop a customised Competency Assessment program entitled ‘Superior Managed Assessment Readiness
Training’ (SMART) and train all identified assessors.
Three sessions of the SMART program were delivered from January to February 2020 to train 75 senior &
general managers, who were expected to own and manage the newly transformed competency assessment
process as part of their role as superiors.
PetroEdge was also required to replicate the SMART program and train an additional 150 senior supervisors from
the Downstream Division of the company. Six SMART program sessions have been confirmed to be conducted
from March to April 2020.
