Training Programs

Strategic Talent Management in the Oil and Gas Industry

LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT


Fees:
Venue: Munich / Germany
Start Date: 2025-04-13
End Date: 2025-04-17
Duration: 5 days

Course Content:

Introduction

Identifying, developing and retaining your talent has never been more important for the industry with the ever-changing economic market. An organisations best and most valuable asset is undoubtedly the people; as it’s the people who operate the systems, the equipment and who can really make the difference between growth or failure. Losing or not being able to recruit the best talent can have a disastrous impact on an organization’s growth and sustainability. This highly interactive Strategic Talent Management training course will teach you the key talent management processes, systems and procedures in order to apply these in the multi-complex industries.

On this Talent Management training course, you will gain insight into innovative talent identification methods, develop targeted grading structures, review and develop competency / behavioral frameworks as well as how to grade and assess your talent/high potentials with the effective use of psychometric tools and other assessment methods. In addition, you will define critical development options ensuring the correct development for talent in the organization. You will also learn how to create sustained growth through active succession planning and strategy to ensure positive career paths and development for talent and high potential employees.

Course Objective

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the mechanisms to define talent, as well as manage your talent and high potential.
  • Develop key strategies to optimize your talent and high potential employees.
  • Engage and employ robust talent strategies within the complex multi-discipline industries.
  • Produce develop effective and functional succession planning strategies.
  • Lead and manage OCR (Organisational Capability Review) meetings to ensure proactive succession for sustained growth.

Training Methodology

 A highly interactive combination of lecture and discussion sessions will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge and experience transfer. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivate everybody finding the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their own questions and to share developing the right answers using their own analysis and experience.

Course Outline

 Day 1:

Defining and Attracting Talent

  • Talent management – Overview and background.
  • Talent / high potential - Defining the criteria.
  • Talent options - Recruit external or growth internal.
  • Aligning talent management with organisational development (OD) and business strategy.
  • Utilizing workforce planning and other sources of data.
  • Attraction strategies – Use of media and other channels.

Day 2:

 Creating Your High Potential Talent Pool

  • Talent management models, grading and structures.
  • Assessment methods and systems - Use of Psychometric / Behavioral / Competency Frameworks.
  • Conducting an effective talent gap analysis.
  • ABC model of potential – Getting the criteria right
  • Using the 9 Box Grid, and other methods to create your talent and high potential matrix.

 Day 3:

 Developing Your Talent and High Potentials

  • Defining high caliber development options.
  • Conducting an effective performance discussion.
  • Creating individual development plans.
  • Powerful feedback techniques: Motivating individuals to achieve higher potential.
  • Coaching for success.

Day 4:

  Retaining and Sustaining Your Talent and High Potentials

  • Career paths – Guidance for growth.
  • Using mentoring programmes to develop and retain your talent.
  • Reward strategies - Intrinsic and extrinsic incentives to motivate your talent.
  • Managing expectations and delivering workable outcomes.
  • Growth rotation development (assignments, experience strategies).
  • Creating a sustainable talent pipeline.

Day 5:

 Strategic Succession Planning and Organisational Capability Review

  • Defining your bench strength.
  • Succession planning and the OCR process.
  • Conducting effective calibration meetings.
  • Formulating a strategic talent plan for the organization in-line with the business strategy.
  • Communicating the strategy to the board and the company.
  • Conclusion and review.