The Effective Shift Team Leader in the Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals Industries

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
16 Nov 2025 Riyadh, KSA $ 3,900 Register

The Effective Shift Team Leader in the Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals Industries

Introduction

This training course has been specifically developed to enhance the skills and knowledge of the Shift Team Leader working in the E&P, Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical industries.  Shift Team Leaders play a vital and integral part in the work operation providing the key interface between line management and the workforce.

On this highly interactive and engaging training course delegates will learn about the importance of their role, how to manage and lead others, problem solve, coach for higher performance, allocate resources effectively, lead and manage their teams, as well as develop team members to achieve their best performance. This training course is an essential development for any Shift Team Leader in the industry.

This training course will feature:

  • The importance of the Shift Team Leader role for organizational success
  • Your own self-awareness to manage yourself and others
  • The analyzing of risks and problems and providing effective decisions
  • How to manage people through excellent interpersonal skills, coaching, and communication techniques
  • Methods to develop increased performance management
  • Developing people and increasing your team performance

Objectives

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

    • Understanding your self-awareness, as well as your role in the organization and management style in order to effectively apply self-management
    • Defining effective problem solving, risk identification, and analysis within your working environment
    • Applying powerful interpersonal techniques to improve communication and manage others effectively
    • Applying development, coaching, and feedback techniques to increase optimum people performance management
    • Improve team cohesion and impact on production through your management and actions

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

This course is suitable for a wide range of professionals working in the E&P oil, gas, and petrochemical industries but will greatly benefit site/refinery/process/platform based:

  • Team Leaders
  • Shift Team Leaders
  • Supervisors
  • Newly promoted, or identified future Team Leaders, Shift Leaders or Supervisors

Course Outline

Day 1: The Important Role of the Shift Team Leader 

  • Shift Team Leader: defining the role in critical operations

  • Managing or Leading as a Team Leader

  • Critical Power Bases: how to utilize these effectively

  • Key characteristics of successful Shift Team Leaders

  • Inspiring change and innovation for continuous improvement

  • Achieving Shift Team Leader Excellence

Day 2: Solving Work Problems and Allocation of Resources

  • Defining operational problems in the industry

  • Technical problem-solving models and techniques

  • Practical and effective decision-making processes

  • Effective planning and time management of tasks

  • Allocating resources effectively and efficiently

  • Ensuring job enrichment and motivation with your team

  • How to delegate tasks to achieve optimum commitment

Day 3: Mastering Key Interpersonal skills and Hand over Briefing

  • Developing key interpersonal skills in the industry

  • Overcoming communication barriers in the workplace

  • Powerful communication and interpersonal techniques

  • How to influence the outcome of your team’s performance

  • Conducting effective hand-over briefs for safe operation

  • Managing conflict assertively with your team

Day 4: Leading and Managing your Team for Operational Success

  • Factors for enhanced Team development

  • Group dynamics in the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry

  • Team Role profile

  • Operational problem solving & decision making

  • Increasing team performance: ensuring a safe environment

Day 5: Developing your Team for Increased Operational Performance

  • Development options and planning

  • Ways of Developing team members

  • Workplace coaching: practical techniques

  • Giving powerful feedback to increase performance

  • Next Steps

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