Transition towards a world-class Oil & Gas organisations with PetroEdge.
  
Competition for the best and brightest talents are reaching fever pitch in the Oil & Gas industry. Leading operators and contractors are fighting to hold-on to top talent, often lured away by unmatchable offers. Furthermore retiring senior professionals leave your organisation, taking with them years of experience and knowledge. You need to have a sustainable capacity building solution in place to protect your organisation’s skill pool and capability. Losing valuable skills without the ability to replace or develop them will have a significant impact on the bottom line.

Let’s take some action. You know that your human skill-pool is your biggest asset. The capacity to meet the future demands of your business relies on you taking proactive steps now to ensure the competency of your people.

To meet this need in assisting Oil & Gas companies accomplish their human capability development target through a sustainable approach, PetroEdge is pleased to announce the launch of its very own consulting division on Human Capability Development. This new division will feature a dedicated and fulltime consulting team with specific expertise in Oil & Gas from experience through-out the world.

Anchoring this new division in PetroEdge, as our full time consultant is Mr. Tak-Poi Mak. A qualified Oil & Gas engineer, he just retired from Shell after 36 years of service. He is a true practitioner with specialised insight on talent development and management challenges in the Oil & Gas industry from a multinational perspective in Asia.

More about Mr. Tak-Poi Mak

Below are indicative areas of work that PetroEdge can help you & your Organisation with:

• Set-up or review / tune-up  / revamp / transform Organization’s Learning & Development strategy, system, processes and execution by tapping on  practical, relevant and cost-effective learning technologies – in developmental, leadership as well as business competences
• Review, enhance or revamp performance management system, processes and dynamics.
  • Enable Leaders, Supervisors and Teams with skills to hold crucial conversations that raise individual / team commitment, accountability & performance
• TeamBuild for group excellence to better achieve Results, Relationship and Respect  :
  • Set Standards ( for teams not achieving expectations )
  • Set Direction ( for good teams struggling for results in changing environments )
  • Set Free ( for great teams to go even further )
• Thinking Partner for Leadership Team Challenges & Initiatives
• Leadership ( Managers & Front Line ) Development : processes, skills & implementation
• Leader’s role, approach & skills to Lead in times of uncertainty, change & transformation 
• Consultant for Employee Engagements : process, issues analysis and crafting initial execution and long term journey to employee hearts, mind and spirit
• Fine-Tune or  Create / Build  an Organization-wide Coaching Culture
  • Analysis of status, build case and strategy for coaching for performance
  • Enable Coaching Mindset & Skills – position Leaders & Managers as Coaches
  • Achieve a “I Coach / Get Coached” strategy and execution for key Talents
• External Coach to selected  Managers, Supervisors, High Potential/Future Leaders  : create and execute a structured approach with defined measurable results 
• Structured Personal Development & Excellence process & implementation – targeted Talent Development of Key and  identified High Potential Staff  :
  • Competences, Habits and Skills for Excellence – Recognize, Attain, Apply
  • Communication & Interpersonal Skills that achieve results, WITH relationships
  • Skills for Difficult / Crucial Conversations
  • Skills for Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
  • Skills for Impact, Presentation and Persuasion
  • Skills for personal and work change  and transitions
• Negotiating and Collaborative Working Skills - for Results, Relationships, Respect
• Business management skills for excellence ( project management, creativity and innovation)
• Review / revamp / nurture Safety Culture and Practices
• Motivational  talks &  Specific Topic Sessions at Organization Events / Away Days

Call us on +65 6741 9927 and speak with Malina or Easwaran to learn more about how we can assist you in overcoming the challenges that you face in your talent development strategy.

When you engage the services of the PetroEdge Human Capability Divison, you access expertise of  proven Learning & Development Professionals from the Oil & Gas industry who bring with them a clear business results-focus,  utilizing the latest learning technologies, yet adapted for your Organization’s  needs, challenges and opportunities.

Here are some questions to get you started thinking about your next move in developing your talent development strategy:

• If most Organizations have equivalent technical expertise and technologies, what qualities in your Talents will truly differentiate you from your competitors and delight your Stakeholders?
• If Leadership, Personal & Business Skills of your Talents are differentiators, where are your people with these skills, on a scale of [ 1 (low) – 5(avg) – 10 (excellent) ]  ?  And what will you, as a Leader do, to move TOWARDS 10? 
• What is your Team or Organization trying to achieve or create that is a challenge but when met, will deliver great opportunities?
• Given where your Organization is, its level of performance and its Business Vision, what deep strengths and soft skills do your Talents really need to master?
• How systemic and systematic is your Team or Organization’s approach to people development?
• Without action, what will your Team and Organization be MISSING?
• Taking action, what will you GAIN tremendously?
• Bottom-line, what do you really want or need, as a Team / Organization to achieve the desired results and relationships?
• To make that happen, what will you commit to?

Call us on +65 6741 9927 to learn more about how we can assist you in clarify challenges that you face in your talent development strategy.

Meet Tak Poi and our other Learning & Development consulting associates at our up-coming Human Competency and Capablity Development in Oil & Gas from 5 - 8 October 2010 (now in its 3rd run!).

Tak Poi will also be a guest speaker at our International Oil & Gas Executive Development Program in Kuala Lumpur from the 11 - 15 of October 2010.