Course Objectives

• Set a communication strategy.
• Write more effectively.
• Make more effective presentations.
• Run more efficient meetings.
• Speak one-to-one more effectively.
• Identify essential leadership competencies
• Understand the organizational complexities and problem-solving strategies
• Lead more effectively organizational change initiatives
• Manage inter-organizational negotiations, partnerships, joint ventures, and mergers
• Understand the global context and its implications for managing in today's oil and gas firms
• Analyze the competitive environment and defining performance
• Understand the financial statements
• Understand cost behavior and cost-volume-profit relationships
• Measure financial performance in energy companies.
• Understand the financial impact of operational decisions
• Assess project economics

Course outline:

• Communication
• Communication strategy.
• Effective Writing.
• Effective presentation.

• Efficient meeting Management.
• Effective Speaking.

• Leadership

• Leadership as a sustainable competitive advantage: identifying essential leadership competencies
• Organizational complexities and problem-solving strategies
• Personal awareness and effectiveness in facing conflict
• Leading effective organizational change initiatives
• Negotiation strategies for oil and gas managers: managing inter-organizational negotiations, partnerships, joint ventures, and mergers

• Corporate Strategy
• The global context and its implications for managing in today's oil and gas firms
• Analyzing the competitive environment and defining performance
• Strategy implementation in multinational settings
• Corporate Finance and Managerial Control

• A practical approach to understanding the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement
• Cost behavior and cost-volume-profit relationships
• Measuring financial performance in energy companies: comparing Full Costing and Successful Efforts.
• Understanding the financial impact of operational decisions
• 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?

• Executives in positions of substantial general management responsibility (or those about to move into such positions) who seek to improve their overall managerial effectiveness.

• Managers with significant managerial decision-making responsibilities in a specific industry segment or functional area, such as exploration, production, transportation, refining, marketing, or finance