Leadership and Management > Rapid and Inclusive Strategy Development in Oil & Gas

About this Training Course

In times of prolonged business uncertainty, oil & gas organisations are often forced to make changes. Some opt for simple radical surgery and cut out unnecessary or redundant resources. Others opt for a more complex solution and restructure their operations. Both approaches are fraught with difficulty and from past history and research, the majority of organisation changes fail to reach their objectives.

Harvard Business School has identified eight key causes and they lead to a disconnect between leaders, employees and other stakeholders in an organisation – the leaders had good ideas but failed to get them across effectively.

Rapid and Inclusive Strategy Development in Oil & Gas is a 2-day course looking at strategic development from an alternative viewpoint, exploring strategies that yield success and stimulate employees and other stakeholders in oil & gas organisations.

The course addresses the new agenda for strategy development in organisations – stakeholders, inclusivity, knowledge management, organisation learning, scenario thinking, rapid and continuous change.

It investigates a range of methods for influencing and creating a new future by entering into dialogues that will generate that inclusive, successful strategy, and exploring processes for creating commitment and conducting strategic planning in large groups to enable people to embrace changes positively. Methods covered include Future Search Conferences, Open Space Conferences, Real Time Strategic Change, Appreciative Inquiry Summits, SOAR, World Café.

This course is particularly attractive to groups of participants from the same organisation who are responsible for strategic planning and are required to develop methodologies for its own strategy development.

During the 2-day course, you will be equipped with the opportunity to understand and experience techniques that:

  • Create new visions and strategies in which people can believe
  • Find common ground in the conflicting interests of stakeholders in an oil & gas organisation
  • Identify and enhance what builds on the strengths in organisations rather than trying to fix weaknesses
  • Enable events to be designed and run involving the simultaneous participation of large numbers of people
  • Allow for the rapid and cost-effective design and deployment of strategy
  • Generate energy and commitment

Suggested attendees include, but not limited to:

  • Managers
  • Professionals
  • Specialist functional staff
  • Those who are involved in developing and introducing strategic change initiatives where time and commitment is of the essence.

This course uses simulations, practical exercises, case studies (including videos), presentations and group discussions to allow participants to experience the different technologies and approaches.

Your course leader has been working as an organisation and management development consultant for over 30 years, initially as an internal consultant with Esso Petroleum, then as the principal of his own consulting practice. He has direct line and HR management experience with Esso Petroleum, and has worked in almost every private, public and not-for-profit sector in countries across Europe, Middle East, South East Asia, Africa and the USA.

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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