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BREAKTHROUGH LEADERSHIP IN COLLABORATIVELY DRIVING CHANGE IN PARTNERSHIP

London, UK

Start Date:  

Jan-20, 2025

End Date:  

Jan-31, 2025

Price:  

GBP 17,500

This course emphasizes collaborative efforts where multiple stakeholders work together to create and sustain impactful change in their shared area of interest. This approach emphasizes synergy, shared goals, and collective action. They often tackle complex challenges that no single entity could address alone.

The learning objectives of Breakthrough Leadership in Partnership focus on developing the skills, mindsets, and strategies necessary to lead collaboratively in dynamic, complex environments. These objectives aim to equip leaders with the ability to foster impactful partnerships, drive transformative changes, and sustain progress in diverse contexts.

Day 1: Understanding the Principles of Effective Partnership Leadership

  • How to Develop a deep understanding of what makes partnerships successful, including shared vision, trust, mutual accountability, and alignment of goals.
  • How to Recognize the unique challenges and opportunities that arise in partnership contexts.
    • Differing Partner Cultures and Values
    • Alignment of Goals and Expectations

Building Collaborative Mindsets and Skills

  • How to Cultivate a mindset of openness, curiosity, and adaptability to navigate diverse perspectives.
  • Mastering skills such as active listening, negotiation, and conflict resolution to build and maintain strong relationships.

Day 2: Driving Vision and Shared Purpose

  • Learn how to co-create a compelling, shared vision that unites diverse stakeholders.
  • How to translate the shared vision into actionable strategies and measurable outcomes.
    • Communication and Transparency
    • Resource Allocation and Management

Navigating Complexity and Change

  • Develop strategies to lead through ambiguity and uncertainty in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
  • Understand systems thinking to address interconnected challenges within partnerships.

Day 3: Emotions and Emotional Intelligence

  • What is Emotional Intelligence and what it has  to do with Leadership
  • Understanding the concept of Workplace Emotional Power
  • 6-Principles of EI
  • Emotional Quotient

Day 4: DISC Assessment – Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance.

In-depth look at your personal talents

  • Behaviors: Will help you attain a greater knowledge of yourself as well as others. The ability to interact effectively with people may be the difference between success and failure in your work and personal life. Effective interaction starts with an accurate perception of oneself.
  • Motivators: This provides information on the why of your actions, which with application and coaching can tremendously impact your value of life. Once you know the motivations that drive your actions, you will immediately be able to understand the causes of conflict.
  • Integrating Behaviors and Motivators: This will help you blend the how and the why of your actions. Once you can understand how your behaviors and motivators blend, your performance will be enhanced, and you will experience an increase in satisfaction.
  • Acumen Indicators: This will help you truly understand how you analyze and interpret your experiences. Your acumen, keenness and depth of perception or discernment, is directly related to your level of performance.
  • Competency: We shall discuss 25 key competencies and rank them from top to bottom, defining your major strengths. The skills at the top highlight well-developed capabilities and reveal where you

Day 6: Enhancing Influence and Trust

  • How to Build credibility and influence as a leader in partnerships, fostering trust among stakeholders.
  • Learn techniques to effectively communicate and inspire action across cultural and organizational boundaries.

Day 7: Innovating and Problem-Solving Collectively

  • Facilitate innovation by leveraging the strengths and creativity of all partners.
  • Utilize tools for joint problem-solving and decision-making that encourage equitable contribution and ownership.
    • Mind Mapping (e.g., XMind, MindMeister)
    • Nominal Group Technique (NGT)
    • Brainstorming Software (e.g., Miro, Stormboard)
    • Fishbone Diagram (Ishikawa or Cause-and-Effect Diagram)
    • Collaboration Platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Slack, Asana, Trello) etc

Day 8: Ensuring Accountability and Measuring Impact

  • Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating progress.
  • Learn to use data-driven insights to adapt strategies and demonstrate the value of the partnership.
    • Consider taking our Data Driven Decision Making course (DDDM)

Day 9: Sustaining Partnerships for Long-Term Impact

  • Understand how to design partnerships that are resilient, adaptable, and sustainable.
  • Learn approaches to manage transitions, scale successful initiatives, and sustain momentum beyond the initial breakthrough.
    • Evaluate Impact: Analyze both qualitative and quantitative metrics to understand the initiative’s impact. Are the outcomes meeting the intended goals? Are stakeholders satisfied? This could involve customer satisfaction surveys, performance metrics, and social or financial impact assessments.
    • Standardized Operations: Streamline workflows and create standardized procedures to ensure consistency and efficiency. This might include standard operating procedures (SOPs), automated processes, or centralized tools to reduce redundancies.

Day 10: Personal Leadership Growth

  • Reflect on your leadership style and identify areas for personal growth.
  • Build self-awareness to lead authentically and inclusively in diverse partnership settings.

COLLABORATION AND SYNERGY IN THE ENERGY SECTOR: ALIGNING REGULATORY AND INDUSTRY OBJECTIVES FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TRANSITION

Houston, TX

Start Date:  

Mar-10, 2025

End Date:  

Mar-14, 2025

Price:  

$7,500

This course examines the Collaboration and synergy in the energy sector are essential for addressing the complex challenges of energy production, distribution, and consumption. This course is designed to analyze the key components and strategic objectives of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), with a focus on its regulatory, fiscal, and governance structures. How do you Evaluate Operators’ Strategies to Regulatory Compliance and Operational Efficiency? These are pertinent questions that will be answered by this course. By attending this course, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of how collaboration and synergy can drive the sustainable energy transition, equipping them with the tools to engage effectively in the energy sector.
Module 1: Understand the Energy Landscape & Exploring the Regulatory Frameworks
  • Comprehend the current state of the energy sector, including key challenges and opportunities in transitioning to sustainable energy sources.
  • How to Analyze various regulatory frameworks and policies that influence energy production, distribution, and consumption at local, national, and international levels.
  • Identify key stakeholders in the energy sector, including government agencies, private companies, NGOs, and communities, and understand their roles in collaboration.
Module 2: Foster Collaborative Strategies & Evaluate Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)
  • Develop strategies for effective collaboration among stakeholders to align their objectives and promote  sustainable energy initiatives.
  • Examine successful case studies of PPPs in the energy sector and assess best practices for leveraging shared resources and expertise.
  • Explore how collaboration between the energy sector and other sectors (e.g., transportation, technology) can enhance sustainability and resilience.
Module 3: Promote Innovative Technologies
  • Investigate emerging technologies in the energy sector and their potential to facilitate collaboration and improve efficiency.
  • Enhancing communication and negotiation skills necessary for fostering collaboration among diverse stakeholders with differing objectives.
  • Understand the environmental implications of energy policies and practices and develop strategies for minimizing negative impacts through collaborative approaches.
  • Design actionable plans that outline steps for stakeholders to align their objectives, implement collaborative initiatives, and measure success in achieving sustainable energy goals.

ADVANCED APPROACH TO MAKING CORPORATE STRATEGY WORK

Houston, TX

Start Date:  

Apr-14, 2025

End Date:  

Apr-18, 2025

Price:  

$7,500

Implementing Corporate Strategy effectively is vital for an organization’s long-term success. The advanced approach involves a systematic, dynamic, and adaptable process, ensuring alignment across all levels of the organization. An advanced approach to making corporate strategy work requires a well-defined process that integrates strategic alignment, comprehensive analysis, dynamic formulation, rigorous testing, and adaptive implementation. By following this detailed procedure, organizations can increase the likelihood of successful strategy execution, driving sustainable growth and long-term success.

1. Strategic Alignment and Vision Clarification

2. Comprehensive Environmental Analysis

3. Strategy Formulation

4. Strategy Validation and Testing

5. Strategic Communication and Engagement

6. Strategy Implementation

7. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Control

8. Continuous Learning and Improvement

 

 

DATA DRIVEN DECISION MAKING

Houston, TX

Start Date:  

May-05, 2025

End Date:  

May-09, 2025

Price:  

$7,650

This course, Data-Driven Decision Making (DDDM) teaches an approach to making choices, setting strategies, and solving problems based on empirical evidence and data. It involves everaging data analytics, statistical analysis, and data visualization techniques to derive insights and inform decision-making processes across various domains and industries.

Decision-making models are structured approaches or frameworks used to systematically analyze and process information in order to make choices or reach conclusions. These models help individuals or groups navigate through complex situations by breaking down the decision-making process into manageable steps.

This course is designed for project engineers, geoscientists, reservoir engineers, production engineers, petroleum engineers, Inspectorate, planning and development analysts, business planners, and managers.

ISO 9001: LEAD AUDITOR CERTIFICATION (QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS)

Houston, TX

Start Date:  

Jun-16, 2025

End Date:  

Jun-27, 2025

Price:  

US$ 17,525+

Understanding the ISO 9001 Standard

  • Grasp the Scope and Structure: Understand the purpose, structure, and scope of the ISO 9001 standard.
  • Key Principles: Learn the fundamental principles of quality management as outlined in ISO 9001, including customer focus, leadership, engagement of people, process approach, improvement, evidence-based decision making, and relationship management.

 Quality Management System (QMS) Requirements

  • Clause-by-Clause Knowledge: Gain detailed knowledge of each clause of the ISO 9001 standard, including context of the organization, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation, and improvement.
  • Document Control: Learn the requirements for controlling documents and records within a QMS.

 Implementation of ISO 9001

  • Planning and Design: Understand how to plan and design an ISO 9001-compliant QMS tailored to the organization’s context and requirements.
  • Process Mapping and Documentation: Learn how to map, document, and manage processes effectively.
  • Risk-Based Thinking: Understand how to apply risk-based thinking to identify and mitigate potential risks to the QMS.

 Roles and Responsibilities

  • Top Management’s Role: Recognize the responsibilities of top management in leading and supporting the QMS.
  • Employee Involvement: Understand the importance of employee involvement and how to engage staff in the QMS.

 Internal Auditing

  • Audit Principles: Learn the principles and practices of auditing, including audit planning, conducting audits, and reporting audit results.
  • Audit Techniques: Gain practical skills in conducting internal audits to ensure compliance with ISO 9001 requirements and identify opportunities for improvement.

Continuous Improvement

  • Corrective Actions: Understand the process for identifying nonconformities, implementing corrective actions, and verifying their effectiveness.
  • Continual Improvement Strategies: Learn strategies for continual improvement of the QMS, including the use of quality tools and techniques.

 Performance Evaluation

  • Monitoring and Measurement: Understand how to monitor and measure QMS performance using key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Management Review: Learn how to conduct effective management reviews to assess the performance of the QMS and make informed decisions for improvement.

Compliance and Certification

  • Certification Process: Understand the steps involved in achieving ISO 9001 certification, including preparation, selection of a certification body, and the certification audit.
  • Maintaining Certification: Learn how to maintain certification through continual improvement, internal audits, and management reviews.

 

CASE STUDIES.

1:         Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Battery Explosions (2016)

Issue:   Samsung had to recall its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after several units caught fire due to battery defects.

ISO 9001 Relevance:

Clause 8.3 (Design and Development of Products and Services): Emphasizes thorough testing and validation of product designs.

Clause 8.5.6 (Control of Changes): Ensures that changes in the design and development process are controlled and reviewed.

Prevention:

Comprehensive risk assessment and testing protocols mandated by ISO 9001 could have identified the battery design flaws before the product was launched.

 

2:         BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2010)

Issue:   The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion resulted in a massive oil spill, causing extensive environmental damage and significant financial losses.

ISO 9001 Relevance:

Clause 6.1 (Actions to Address Risks and Opportunities): Requires organizations to identify and mitigate risks.

Clause 8.6 (Release of Products and Services): Ensures that products and services meet requirements before release.

Prevention:

A robust risk management system as required by ISO 9001 could have identified and mitigated the risks associated with the drilling operations, potentially preventing disaster.

 

3:         Volkswagen Emissions Scandal (2015)

Issue:   Volkswagen was found to have installed software in diesel engines to cheat emissions tests, leading to significant legal and financial repercussions.

ISO 9001 Relevance:

Clause 5.1 (Leadership and Commitment): Stresses the importance of ethical leadership and commitment to compliance.

Clause 9.1 (Monitoring, Measurement, Analysis, and Evaluation): Requires accurate monitoring and measurement of product performance.

Prevention:

ISO 9001’s emphasis on ethical leadership and accurate measurement could have fostered a culture of compliance, preventing the unethical practices that led to the scandal.