Course Description:

This course provides oil and gas industry managers and executives with the critical skills needed in six essential areas: communication, negotiation, management, leadership, corporate strategy, financial planning and control, and corporate finance. Highly-regarded instructors will share in these critical areas in a manner that will allow attendees to expand their core competencies and apply them within the context of the international oil and gas industry

Course Goal:

To broaden the participant’s knowledge, skills and ability necessary to improve his overall managerial effectiveness.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course the participant will be able to:

1. Set a communication strategy.
2. Write more effectively.
3. Make more effective presentations.
4. Run more efficient meetings.
5. Speak one-to-one more effectively.
6. Identify essential leadership competencies
7. Understand the organizational complexities and problem-solving strategies
8. Lead more effectively organizational change initiatives
9. Manage inter-organizational negotiations, partnerships, joint ventures, and mergers
10. Understand the global context and its implications for managing in today’s oil and gas firms
11. Analyze the competitive environment and defining performance
12. Understand the financial statements
13. Understand cost behavior and cost-volume-profit relationships
14. Measure financial performance in energy companies.
15. Understand the financial impact of operational decisions
16. Assess project economics.

Course outline:

• Communication

1. Communication strategy.
2. Effective Writing.
3. Effective presentation.
4. Efficient meeting Management.
5. Effective Speaking.
   • Leadership
6. Leadership as a sustainable competitive advantage: identifying essential leadership competencies
7. Organizational complexities and problem-solving strategies
8. Personal awareness and effectiveness in facing conflict
9. Leading effective organizational change initiatives
10. Negotiation strategies for oil and gas managers: managing inter-organizational negotiations, partnerships, joint ventures, and mergers
    • Corporate Strategy
11. The global context and its implications for managing in today’s oil and gas firms
12. Analyzing the competitive environment and defining performance
13. Strategy implementation in multinational settings
    • Corporate Finance and Managerial Control
14. A practical approach to understanding the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement
15. Cost behavior and cost-volume-profit relationships
16. Measuring financial performance in energy companies: comparing Full Costing and Successful Efforts.
17. Understanding the financial impact of operational decisions
18. Assessing project economics: discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques, quality of data, measurement used (payback, IRR, NPV), relevant cash flows, appropriate cost of capital

Who Can Benefit?

1. Executives in positions of substantial general management responsibility (or those about to move into such positions) who seek to improve their overall managerial effectiveness.
2. Managers with significant managerial decision-making responsibilities in a specific industry segment or functional area, such as exploration, production, transportation, refining, marketing, or finance.