This 5-day program is ideal for mid to senior level managers and supervisors as well as aspiring leaders from all sectors of the energy industry who wish to enhance their core leadership skills.
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| Dates | June 8 – 12, 2026 (Boston, US), August (Istanbul, Turkey) |
Price range: $4,500 through $5,750
This program is designed for mid to senior level managers and supervisors as well as aspiring leaders from all sectors of the energy industry who wish to enhance their core leadership skills.
This 5-day program is designed for rising managers and new leaders from all sectors of the energy industry who seek to enhance their understanding of leadership fundamentals and critical competencies, and then obtain in-depth understanding of five key leadership competencies: Effective Business Communication, Business and Financial Acumen, Teamwork, and Practical Negotiation skills. The program is taught by a team of highly regarded instructors who have broad and practical leadership experience in the energy industry. This program also has an expanded 2-week version that is offered in Boston annually.
This session summarizes leadership fundamentals and the most compelling competencies required of today’s leaders. It includes such topics as: what do leaders do? leadership theory and styles; motivation and social motives, emotional intelligence, self-assessment, management versus leadership competencies; leadership competencies: leading self, leading others, leading the organization; leading stakeholders; leading effective power and influence, leading the organization, organizational climate, organizational climate survey, improving organizational climate, leading change. Case Studies Include: What Do Leaders Do? What Makes a Great Leader? Power is the Great Motivator.
Major trends and drivers of change within the international energy industry: anticipating the future of energy trends throughout the value chains. Latest approaches to strategic planning and its importance for setting company vision and goals; effective implementation of strategy; planning and implementation of the plan using the Balanced Scorecard.
One of the essential skills of a leader is to acquire, develop and retain high performing employees and teams. This session is devoted to the talent management processes, the recruiting and building of a competent workforce, the development of effective teams and the active role that the leader should play to assure that the HR function achieves the strategic personnel goals of the organization.
Setting a communication strategy: credibility, persuasion, and channel choice. Presentation structure: writing vs. presentations vs. meetings vs. one-to-one conversations; writing more effectively; making effective presentations; running efficient meetings; speaking effectively one-on-one. Case studies and workshop sessions.
Financial statements measure the performance of the organization and a leader must have a solid understanding of them in order to make decisions that achieve the strategic and operational goals of the organization. Key topics include an introduction to the accounting process; four major financial reports: balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement and equity statement; how they impact each other, the major indices that are used to measure the performance of the company and the various financial decisions that impact performance of the organization. Session will include the analysis of an emerging company to show the impact of key decisions and the review of actual financial statements of energy companies.
The essentials of positive negotiation is the “Getting to Yes” process developed at the Harvard Law School and applied to a petroleum agreements case study by IHRDC. The key steps you will learn in order to achieve successful negotiations are:
Step One: Discovering Underlying Interests of the Counterparties
Step Two: Generating Options to a Negotiated Solution
Step Three: Identifying and Using Independent Standards
Step Four: Dealing with People Problems
Step Five: Generating Alternatives to a Negotiated Solution
Step Six: Reaching Closure
This workshop is composed of a series of interactive sessions where teams of participants, playing the role of either the government or the contractor, with active negotiations aiming to achieve win-win outcomes for the most often negotiated issues between parties. This challenging learning process enables participants to effectively internalize the essential aspects of both the business communication and leadership skills as well as an extremely effective negotiation process.
