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Our extended list of training programs and seminars that can be offered on-demand

1. Management and Engineering Management Courses 
 
 

2. Management and Cultural Management Courses

2.1  Assertiveness Skills: Communicating with Authority and Impact

2.2  Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving

2.3  Effective Communication Skills

2.4  Influence Skills 

2.5  Management Skills

2.6  Managing Stress and Pressure at Work

2.7  Mind Mapping & Brain Training

2.8  Personal Skills for Professional Excellence

2.9  Presentation Skills

2.10 Self Development

2.11 Team Work & Team Building

2.12 The 4 Roles of Leadership

2.13 Time Management

2.14 Women Leadership

 

3. Management, Team Building, Leadership & Personnel Development Courses

 

3.1   Balanced Scorecard & Key Performance Indicators 

3.2   Benchmarking & Performance Indicators Measurements (KPI's) 

3.3   Customer Relationship Management 

3.4   Emotional Intelligence at the Workplace 

3.5   Leadership Skills for New Managers 

3.6   Problem Solving & Decision Making 

3.7   Say and Get What You Want 

3.8   Systems Dynamics

3.9   Successful Negotiation Strategies & Tactics 

3.10 The Art of Negotiating, Influencing, Communicating & Conflict Resolution 

3.11 The Personal Excellence Programme 

3.12 Tools & Tips for Today's Project Manager 

3.13 Value Engineering Workshop

 

4. Project Management Courses

 

4.1 Construction Management – Best Practices 

4.2 Managing Multiple Projects 

4.3 PM for Successfully Managing IT Projects 

4.4 PMP Exam Preparation Workshop – PMBOK 3rd Edition 

4.5 Project Budgeting & Cost Control for EPC Projects 

4.6 Project Risk Management 

4.7 Writing Project Technical Specifications

 

5. Safety, Health and Environment Courses

 

5.1   Basic Safety and Loss Prevention

5.2   Behavioral Based Safety

5.3   Chemical Process – Root Cause Analysis

5.4   Confined Space Entry (CSE) from A-Z

5.5   Construction Safety 

5.6   Defensive Driving Course 

5.7   Ergonomics for Office Workers

5.8   Hazard & Operability Studies HAZOP/HAZAN

5.9   Hazardous Waste Management

5.10 Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Safety Awareness

5.11 Identification and Assessment of Industrial Hazards

5.12 Improving Safety in Chemical Laboratories

5.13 Industrial Hygiene for Operation and Maintenance

5.14 Job Stress and Safety 

5.15 Office and Home Safety 

5.16 Off-the-Job Safety

5.17 OHSAS 18001 – Internal Auditor Course

5.18 OSHA General Industry Course – 30 hours 

5.19 OSHA General Industry Course – 10 hours 

5.20 Personal Protective Equipments Awareness

5.21 Principles of Life Safety

5.22 Risk Assessment within Production Operations 

5.23 Safety Management Techniques

5.24 Supervisors Safety Development Program 

5.25 Warehouse  and Storage Safety

5.26 Writing Effective Operating Procedures within Process & Maintenance Operations

5.27 Workplace Housekeeping Best Practices

 

6. Technical Process and Operation Courses

 

6.1   Air Pollution Control

6.2   Catalysts in Petroleum and Petrochemical Industries

6.3   Chemical Engineering for Other Engineers

6.4   Corrosion Management in Oil and Gas Fields 

6.5   Corrosion, Metallurgy and Failure Prevention

6.6   Corrosion Protection & Waste Water Treatment

6.7   Diesel Fuel Quality – The Growing Role of Additives 

6.8   Distillation Technology – Atmospheric and Vacuum

6.9   Gasoline Technology and Economics

6.10 Maintaining Jet Fuel Quality

6.11 Materials Selection & Corrosion

6.12 Pipeline Design, Maintenance & Rehabilitation Practices

6.13 Piping Inspector Preparatory

6.14 Pressure Vessel Inspector Preparatory

6.15 Process Plant Start-up & Shutdown

6.16 Shell & Tube Heat Exchanger

6.17 Steam Boilers: Operation, Maintenance & Control System

6.18 Storage Tank Design, Construction and Maintenance

6.19 Valve Technology

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Basic Managerial Skills

 

Course Objectives:

After completing this training session participants should acquire a full understanding of the basic skills of successful manager.

Who can attend?

Supervisors, Superintendents, Team leaders, Supervisors to be.

Course Outline:

The course will be held in 3 days as follows:

Day-1: (The Basic Management Theory and Science, Planning) 

·        Management: Science, Theory and Practice

·        The Nature and Purpose of Planning

·        Objectives

·        Strategies, Policies and Planning Premises

·        Decision Making 

Day-2: (Organizing) 

·        The Nature and Purpose of Organizing

·        Basic Departmentation

·        Line/Staff Authority and Decentralization 

Day-3: (Leading) 

·        Motivation

·        Leadership

·        Communication

·        The System and Process of Controlling

 

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Building and Managing Teams

 Course Objective:

After completing this training program, participants should be able to understand the process of building and managing team. 

Who can attend? 

All supervisory levels and Team leaders. 

Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 4 days as follows:

Day-1:

·        The problem

·        The importance of groups

·        Characteristics of a high performing team

·        The importance of vision

·        Diagnosis

·         Understanding group dynamics

-        Stage 1: Orientation

-        Stage 2: Dissatisfaction

-        Stage 3: Production

-        Stage 4: Integration

Day-2:

·        Changes in productivity and morale

·        Adaptability

·        Four leadership styles

·        Task and maintenance functions

·        Teaching someone else

·        Using the concepts

·         Answering the questions

Day-3:

·        Managing the Journey to empowerment

·        When to change one's leadership style

·        Regression

·        Process observation

·        Understanding group dynamics

Day-4:

·        The manager as educator

·        The new one minute managers

·        Sharing it with others

·         Praisings  

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Development of Marketing Strategy

Course Objectives:

Participants will be able to 

§         Understand how to perform marketing audit

§         How to perform practical market research

§         Able to apply a number of models and techniques to analyze data uncovered through audit and research

§         How to set SPORT objectives

§         How to develop a proposition around the marketing mix

§         How to use implementation tactics to deliver the plan effectively & What to monitor and how to evaluate 

Who can attend?

Senior managers, managers and staff involved in developing marketing strategy at company or business unit level. Marketing strategy development is an approach that will add shareholder value to all types of business.

Course Outline:

The course will be held in 5 days as follows:

Day-1:

·        The marketing audit and marketing research

·        The current marketing mix - customer behavior

·        Market segmentation and targeting

·         Competitive analysis and STEP Analysis 

Day-2:

·        Analysis of Data

·        Product Identification

·         Life-cycle and portfolio analysis 

Day-3:

·        BCG matrix SWOT and Forecasting

·        Setting marketing objectives that are SPORT

·         Subjective - Practice & Output 

Day-4:

·        Rules and Team  - Developing plans

·        Marketing mix – Cost leadership

·        Differentiation & Product Development

·         Market Development – Implementation

Day-5:

·        Tactics within the marketing mix framework

·        Monitoring and Evaluation

·         Developing a system that measurers the right things

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Improving Communication Skills

Course Objective:

After attending these training session participants should be able to develop basic communication skills [message's coding, decoding, listening skills, presentation's skills].

Who can attend?

All employees. 

Course Outline:

The course will be held in 4 days as follows: 

Day-1: (The nature of communication) 

Day-2: (Main components of communication) 

Day-3: (Verbal and non-verbal communication) 

Day-4: (How to listen?) 

Day-5: (Group Practices of Studied Concepts and Case studies)

 

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Organizational Loyalty and Productivity

Course Objective: 

After attending this training course participants should be able to understand the role of employee's loyalty in improving organization's performance. 

Who can attend? 

All supervisory levels and H.R. specialist.

Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 3 days as follows:  

Day-1: (The nature of organizational loyalty and organizational justice) 

Day-2: (Factors that enhance loyalty) 

Day-3: (How to measure loyalty?)

 

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Performance Appraisals

 Course Objectives: 

After completing this training program, participants should be able to build better relations with appraises. 

Who can attend?

All supervisory levels and Team leaders. 

Training Methodology
 
Participants will learn by active participation during the program through the use of exercises, group discussion, training videos and discussions on relevant types of issues/accidents and case studies in their organizations as well as other regional organizations.

Course Outline: 

This course will be given in 5 days and will cover the following concepts: 

Day-1: (The nature of Performance Appraisals) 

Day-2: (Performance Appraisal's methods) 

Day-3: (Performance Appraisal's stages) 

Day-4: (M.B.O as a performance appraisal technique) 

Day-5: (P.A as a developmental method)

 

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Public Relation & Corporate Communications

Course Objectives:

Participants will be able to 

§         Set corporate Affairs in strategic anticipatory and effective context

§         To develop an understanding of stakeholder programmes for regular, focused communication

§         Examine the development of Corporate Affairs tools

§         How to set SPORT objectives

§         Understanding the development of strategy/plans/tactics and coordinating these

§         Evaluation and the use of research 

Who can attend?

Public Relation Manager, Supervisor and others, Other key personnel in the organization whose work involves contact and interaction with internal/external public, Particular managers and supervisors in the areas of personnel, marketing, sales, training and administration.

Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

Day-1: (Introduction and Welcome: The Power of Communication)

·        Introduction and welcome

·        Course programmed, design and options

·        Opening exercise: Goal setting

·        Corporate Affairs and Public Affairs approaches

·        Corporate identity and image

·        Corporate communications overview and strategy

·        External reputation management Communication as a change agent

·        Communication as goal for all manager 

Day-2: (From the Inside Out: Crafting Consistent Messages)

·        Internal communications

·        Family and friends as Stakeholder

·        Measuring emotional capital

·        Communications channels mapping and monitoring

·        Setting internal communications goals

·        New media for rapid interaction

·        Champions, opinion formers and incentivisation

·        The place of the company magazine/newsletter

·        The multinational internal communications programme

·        Commitment from internal decision makers 

Day-3: (Risks and Threats: Their Identification and Management)

·        Single issue politics

·        Special interest groups

·        Whistleblowers and the rules of disclosure

·        External opinion formers

·        Cause related PR and core values

·        Campaigns, their design and planning

·        A crisis management toolkit

·        Stakeholder interest inventories

·        Opinion former networks 

Day-4: (Corporate Affairs / PR in the Corporate Mix)

·        PR in the communications mix

·        PR in the marketing mix

·        Direct response PR

·        Financial PR

·        PR and strategy

·        Brand PR

·        Persuasion measurement techniques

·        Integrating PR/Communications and marketing plans

·        The art of leveraging

·        Corporate affairs and customer relations 

Day-5: (Powerful and Persuasive Action Planning)

·        Measurement of performance: bottom line impact

·        Translating strategy to tactics

·        Horizons for PR and corporate affairs development

·        Tools and techniques summary: a tactical inventory

·        Recruiting allies: a networking approach

·        Justifying the plan and convincing top management

·        Making the most of other disciplines to maximize results

·        Individual and group consultancy

·        Further sources of help and information

 

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Strategic Planning

Course Objectives: 

After completing this training program, participants should be able to develop a better understanding of strategic planning. 

Who can attend? 

All supervisory levels and Team leaders.

Course Outline: 

This course will be held in 4 days as follows: 

Day-1: (The nature of strategic planning) 

Day-2: (Components of strategic planning) 

Day-3: (How to generate information and construct a strategic plan?) 

Day-4: (How to evaluate a current strategy?)

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Assertiveness Skills: Communicating with Authority and Impact

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course, participants will learn how to 

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for anyone who wants to enhance their assertiveness skills, build a confident, credible image and develop effective workplace relationships. 

Course Outline:

This course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

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Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course, participants will learn how to 

 

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for anyone who makes decisions at any level of the organisation. 

Course Content:

This course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

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Effective Communication Skills

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course, participants will learn how to 

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for those who want to strengthen their communications skills and enhance their ability to interact with others.

Course Content:

This course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

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Influence Skills

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course, participants will learn how to 

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for anyone who relies on influence rather than authority to achieve his or her goals. 

Course Content:

This course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

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Management Skills

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course, participants will learn how to 

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for both new and experienced managers who wish to gain or refine management skills while increasing the commitment and productivity of their teams. No previous management experience is required.

Course Content:

This course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

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Managing Stress & Pressure at Work

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course, participants will learn how to

Who Should Attend? 

Managers, Supervisors, Personnel officers, Training officers, Occupational health specialists, Health and safety officers, anyone that has to manage stress and pressure at work.

Course Content:

This course will be held in 4 days as follows: 

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Mind Mapping & Brain Training

Course Objectives:

This course will provide the input details, brain dominance assessment and personal in – depth profile and feedback to enable participants to be more innovative and creative, communicate, interact and think in a completely new and holistic way. 

Who Should Attend? 

Anyone, at any level who wants to improve his or her personal effectiveness and ability to handle information overload. 

Course Content: 

This course will be held in 4 days as follows: 

 

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Personal Skills for Professional Excellence

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course, participants will learn how to 

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for everybody involved in working with the people, projects or information. It benefits those taking on responsibility for the first time, as well as experienced managers who want to maximise their personal effectiveness. 

Course Content:

This course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

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Presentation Skills

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course, participants will learn how to 

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for anyone who needs to communicate ideas to their colleagues, customers or business associates. Some experience using PowerPoint is helpful. 

Course Content:

This course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

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Self Development  

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course, participants will learn how to 

Who Should Attend?

Superintendents and above 

Course Content:

This course will be held in 4 days as follows: 

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Team Work & Team Building

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course,  

Who Should Attend?

If you are a manager who would like to learn more about high-performing teams and their powerful strategies for long – term, bottom line results, and then you should attend this seminar. 

Course Content:

This course will be held in 4 days as follows: 

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The 4 Roles of Leadership

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course participants will be able to control and improve their time and result on the job more efficiently and effectively by exploring delegation skills that will help to avoid time wasting while reducing fatigue and stress. 

Who Should Attend?

Engineers, Senior Staff and above 

Course Content:

This course will be held in 4 days as follows: 

 

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Time Management

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course, participants will learn how to 

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for anyone who want to improve their productivity and strengthen their time-management skills through multiple ways of thinking about and using time more effectively. 

Course Content:

This course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

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Women Leadership

Course Objectives:

After completion of the course, participants will learn how to 

Who Should Attend?

Engineers, Senior Staff and above 

Course Content:

This course will be held in 4 days as follows: 

 

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Balanced Scorecard & Key Performance Indicators

Course Objective:

In particular, this seminar will: 

Course Outline:

This course will be held in five days and will cover the following concepts: 

Day-1:
LINKING STRATEGY TO RESULTS 

Day-2:
BUILDING THE SCORECARD 

Case study: an examination of the vision, Mission and related strategies.

Day-3:
TURNING STRATEGY INTO ACTION 

Case study: An examination and comparison of different KPI performance metrics used in Oil and Gas Industries. 

Day-4:
IMPLEMENTING THE SCORECARD 

Case study: an examination of different KPI performance metrics 

Day-5:
PRESENTATION OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION
 

Case Study: Building the Balance scorecard 

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Benchmarking & Performance Indicators Measurements (KPI's)

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course you will be able to: 

Course Outline:

This course will be held in 5 days and will cover the following concepts:

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Customer Relationship Management

Course Objectives:

In today’s competitive world, Customer Loyalty is critical to a company’s survival and growth. There is a need to look beyond the narrow channel of Customer Service. Customer Relationship Management ( CRM ) is a combination of Business Process and Technology that seeks to understand a Company’s Customers from multiple perspectives to COMPETITIVELY differentiate a Company’s Products and Services. The programme is a Blend of Theory and Practice--Live examples of Companies from a variety of businesses, who have succeeded using CRM, and Case Studies for participants to deliberate in groups and make presentations, followed by an Open Discussion.  

Who can Attend?

This programme will be useful to ALL functional disciplines in a company. CRM is a Business Strategy hence it is all pervading--Senior and Middle Managers who are instrumental in Designing, Procuring, Manufacturing, Servicing and Marketing a company’s Products or Services will benefit from the interaction.  

Course Outline: 

This course will be held in 5 day and will cover the following concepts:  

Day-1:

o       You have to "discover" what they really need.

o       14 questions with multiple choice answers to see if your approach to Customer Satisfaction is in line with your Customers Superior Needs.

o       Delivery, Customer Service, Company Image, Emergencies,

o       Live Examples of Companies excelling in Service Quality.  

Day-2:

o       A Working Definition-Going beyond Target Marketing.

o       Satisfaction with the total experience with your Company.

o       Four Simple, Fundamental Ideas that explain the Value Proposition of CRM.

o       The Three Phases of CRM.

o       Assignments for the Participants - Analyse Individually, or in Groups, make Presentations, and throw open for discussion.  

Day-3:

o       From Mass Marketing to Transaction Marketing to Relationship Marketing.

o       Customer Care is Pro-Active and Re-Active.

o       Making your Sales Force a CRM oriented Team.

o       Assignments for the Participants- Analyse Individually, or in Groups, make Presentations, and throw open for discussion.  

Day-4:

o       The Distinction between Information and Knowledge. Harnessing this Knowledge to be your competitive strength.

o       How KM and CRM blend into a powerful Competitive Strategy.

o       How CRM drives a Company’s functional disciplines. An enterprise-wide Initiative.

o       Assignments for the Participants-Analyse Individually, or in Groups, make Presentations, and throw open for discussion.  

Day-5:

·        Implementing CRM

o       The Six Steps - Develop your Company’s CRM Strategy into an Actionable Plan

o       Seven Success Factors

o       Assignments for the participants -Analyse Individually, or in Groups, make Presentations, and throw open for discussion.

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  Emotional Intelligence at the Workplace

Course Objectives:

After Completion of this course, participants will learn how to

·        Gain insight into the give components of emotional intelligence

·        Gain competence in each of five components of emotional intelligence

·        Enhance personal confidence and self-image

·        Enhance interpersonal effectiveness

·        Be able to apply information gleaned from international studies of competency models

·        Further own and others’ careers  

Course Outline:

The course will be held in 5 days as follows:  

Day-1:

·              Career and Interpersonal competence

·              What is emotional intelligence?

 Day-2:

·              The Five components of emotional intelligence

·              How to apply and enhance your EI?

Day-3:

·              Emotional intelligence leaders

·              What really counts at work – best practice emotional competence

Day-4:  

·              Typical business interactions requiring emotional intelligence

·              Employing EQ for effective interpersonal interactions

Day 5:

·              Managing conflict through emotional intelligence

·              Interaction persuasively

·              Building Trust

 

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Leadership Skills for New Managers

 

Course Objective: 

Cycle times are shorter. Change is changing more rapidly. The New Leader is expected to grapple with situations, some of which have never been experienced before and lead the organization to success.  

Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 5 days as follows:  

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  Problem Solving and Decision Making

Course Objective: 

After completing this course, the participants will be able to understand in depth the role of management in managing problems and solving them and in making decisions. This course will cover all the aspects of problem solving and decision making including strategy and strategic thinking to understand their organization’s position in changing global marketplace and how the organisation’s internal structures and cultures can be shaped to  match the developing business and global environment.  

Who can Attend:

This course is designed for the Engineers and Managers who have been identified for accelerated promotion to senior posts and for experienced middle and senior managers who are seeking develop further in modern management techniques.

Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 5 days as follows:  

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Say and Get What You Want

Course Objective: 

After completing this course, the participants will be able to learn

·        Understand what it means to be truly assertive & Understand the impact of goal clarify on their behaviour

·        Know the effect that the value driven life has one one’s ability to be assertive & Work towards a more positive self-image

·        Understand and practise communication & assertiveness skills

·        Have added supporting strategies to workplace relations

Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 5 days as follows:  

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  System Dynamics

Course Objective: 

After completing this course, the participants will be able to learn

·        Understand the distinctions between systems of different nature and levels of complexity

·        Become aware of their mental models and the way they think about problems

·        Understand the fundamentals of systems thinking and systems dynamics

·        Learn and use a practical framework for diagnosing and understanding business dynamics

·        Understand the important role of tangible and intangible resources in strategy dynamics

·        Use simulation software to model systems and to identify appropriate interventions

 Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 5 days as follows:  

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  Successful Negotiations Strategies & Tactics

Course Objective: 

After completing this course, the participants will be able to learn

·        Learn strategies for analyzing the other side and preparing for negotiations

·        Gain Skills for managing the negotiation process

·        Practice negotiation skills and tactics through games and role-plays

·        Understand alternative dispute resolution methods

·        Receive feedback on their negotiation skills  

Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 5 days as follows:  

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The Art of Negotiating, Influencing, Communicating & Conflict Resolution

Course Objective: 

After completing this course, the participants will be able to learn

·        Quickly develop your communication, negotiation and persuation skills

·        Effectively communicate and negotiate with clients, vendors, colleagues, staff, team members and management

·        Professionally resolve various conflicts at work

Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 5 days as follows:  

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  The Personal Excellence Programme

Course Objective: 

After completing this course, the participants will be able to learn

·        Understanding how to develop high self-esteem and enhance the self-esteem of others

·        Understanding the benefits of controlling your attitude

·        Learning to identify and control negative input from others

·        Identifying and challenging any limiting beliefs that are holding them back both in their business and personal life

·        Understanding the basics and importance of personal motivation

·        Evaluating their own goals and understanding why success is about taking life just one step at a time  

Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 5 days as follows:  

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  Tools & Tips for Today’s Project Manager

Course Objective: 

After completing this course, the participants will be able to learn

·        Creativity – developing innovative solutions

·        Information – converting data into a meaningful format

·        Meetings – assembling people to achieve a specific goal

·        Methods/processes – applying ways of doing business to transform input to output

·        Organization – taking a structured approach for handling a host of situations

·        People – addressing the human side of managing projects

·        Planning – defining the who's, what's, where's, when's, and why's of projects

·        Time-making more of something that is becoming less available  

Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 5 days as follows:  

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  Value Engineering Workshop

Course Objective: 

After completing this course, the participants will be able to learn

·        Gather and organize information and cost relevant to design and Construction project.

·        Define essential functions & Understand and be able to use creative thinking

·        Develop new design that improve while retaining client’s oriented needs & Apply objective methods for evaluating design alternatives

·        Understanding and be able to apply life cycle costing terminology & Present alternatives solutions to top management and clients  

Course Outline: 

The course will be held in 5 days as follows:  

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Construction Management – Best Practices

Course Objectives:

This program covers application of construction management techniques related to the unique nature of construction projects. Looks at elements of construction management, construction delivery systems, partnering and subcontracting, cost  estimating and scheduling, contract administration and control techniques, construction quality control, construction safety, use of construction contract control software, includes case studies from the construction industry. 

Course Outline:

The course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

Day-1: (construction Industry and Practice) 

·        Management in the Engineering and Construction Industry

·        Development and Organization of Projects

·        Applications and Requirements for Management Organizations 

Day-2: (Professional construction Management in Practice) 

·        Introduction to an Example Project

·        Preconstruction Site Investigation, Planning, Scheduling, Estimating and Design

·        Bidding and Award

·        Construction

·        Applications of Control

·        Selecting a Professional Construction Manager 

Day-3: (Methods in Project Management) 

·        Concepts of Project Planning and Control

·        Estimating Project Costs

Day-4: (Methods in Project Management) 

·        Planning & Control of Operations & Resources

·        Cost Engineering

·        Procurement

·        Value Engineering

·        Quality Assurance

·        Safety and Health in construction 

Day 5: (Business Methods in Managing Construction Overview)

·        Risk Management, Insurance and Bonding

·        Claims, Liability and Dispute Resolution

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Managing Multiple Projects

Course Objectives:

This program focuses instead on time management and priority setting. These are vital skills. In fact, you do not develop good time-management and priority-setting skills, you will not be able to put the tools in this course to good use. 

Course Outline:

The course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

Day-1:  

·        Introduction (The Art of “Juggling” or managing multiple small projects)

·        Task Oriented Project Portfolios (Managing the task-oriented project portfolio)

Day-2:

·        Independent Project Portfolios (Managing The independent Project Portfolio)

·        Planning a single project

·        How to read and use a gantt chart 

Day-3:  

·        Schedule Multiple Projects (How to Schedule Multiple Projects

Day-4:  

·        How to Manage Multiple Projects in an Independent Portfolio

·        Interdependent Project Portfolios (Managing the Interdependent Project Portfolio)

Day 5:

·        Planning and Interdependent Project Portfolio

·        How to Manager Multiple Projects in an Interdependent Portfolio

 

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 PMP Exam Preparation Workshop – PMBOK 3rd Edition

Course Objectives:

The Certification preparation Workshop will give participants a comprehensive review of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Third Edition), latest release of PMBOK, which forms the basis for the PMP exam. In addition, Participants will go through lots of sample questions similar to those expected on the exam, and mock exams to give them a feeling of the real exam environment. In addition, we provide support and consultation during the application procedure and help participants prepare their credentials and qualifications to submit to PMI. 

Course Outline:

The course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

Day-1:  

·        The Project Management Framework

·        Project Life Cycle and Organization

·        The Project Management Processes for a Project

·        The Project Management Nine Knowledge areas (Project Integration Management)

Day-2:

·        The Project Management Nine Knowledge areas (Scope Management)

·        The Project Management Nine Knowledge areas (Project Time Management) 

Day-3:  

·        The Project Management Nine Knowledge areas (Project Cost Management)

·        The Project Management Nine Knowledge areas (Project Quality Management)

Day-4:  

·        The Project Management Nine Knowledge areas (Project Human Resource Management)

·        The Project Management Nine Knowledge areas (Project Communication Management)

Day 5:

·        The Project Management Nine Knowledge areas (Project Risk Management)

·        The Project Management Nine Knowledge areas (Project Procurement Management)

 

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  Project Budgeting & Cost Control for EPC Projects

Course Objectives:

After Completion of this course, participants will learn how to

·        Understand the cost  structure of their company

·        Move towards activity-based costing

·        Exploit the advantages of proper budgeting and variance analysis

·        Link costing and budgeting with advanced performance management 

Course Outline:

The course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

Day-1:  

·        Introduction to Project budgeting and cost control

·        Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) and chart of account

·        Budgeting and cost control methods along with their links, if any 

Day-2:

·        Budgeting and cost control processes

·        Cost estimating and Budgeting

·        Actual Cost allocation and processing 

Day-3:  

·        Forecasting

·        Cost analysis and analysis of variance (rate, Qty, and cost)

Day-4:  

·        Variations (Change order/extra work) and budget adjustment

·        Reporting

Day 5:

·        Users’ Cost consciousness and interest/attraction

·        Closeout

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 Project Risk Management

Course Objectives:

After Completion of this course, participants will learn how to

·        Develop a Risk Management Plan for a Project

·        Identify project risks, which might affect the project

·        Measure the probability and consequences of risks and estimating their impact on project objectives using “Qualitative Risk Analysis” (QRA)

·        Develop procedures and techniques for risk response planning

·        Monitor residual risk and control new risks throughout the project life cycle 

Course Outline:

The course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

Day-1:  

·              Introduction and overview of risk management

·              Risk types

·              Risk Classification / Categorization 

Day-2:

·              Risk management planning

·              Output

·              Risk Identification

·              Output 

Day-3:  

·              Quantitative Risk Analysis

·              Outputs

Day-4:  

·              Risk Response Planning

·              Tools and Techniques

·              Outputs

Day 5:

·              Risk Monitoring and Control

·              Tools and Techniques

·              Outputs

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Writing Project Technical Specifications

Course Objectives:

After Completion of this course, participants will learn how to

·        Gain Knowledge of current industry standard recommendations, principles and techniques of construction specifications writing

·        Develop an understanding of CSI’s Classification Systems and Formats concepts

·        Master the principles and techniques for locating and arranging construction information in contract documents

·        Obtain hands-on experience in creating clear, concise and coordinated specifications

·        Apply the different methods of specifying and learn basic writing styles

·        Identifying resources and computer programs available for specifications preparation 

Course Outline:

The course will be held in 5 days as follows: 

Day-1: (Fundamental and Formats)

·              Project Manual Concept

·              Classification Systems

·              Formats

·              Construction Documents 

Day-2: (Specification Writing)

·              Master Format and Section Format

·              Methods of Specifying

·              Drawings

·              Language and Writing Style 

Day-3: (Specification Application) 

·              Product Evaluation and Selection

·              Master Specifications

·              Method of Specifying

Day-4: (Specification Production) 

·              Writing Specification Sections

·              Substitutions

Day 5: (Practice Exercises)

·              Warranties

·              Producing a Project Manual

·              Specifications Writing-Practice Exercises 

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Basic Safety and Loss Prevention

Course Objectives:

The participants will be able to identify different hazards in their environment and hazards resulting from human error. The participants will evaluate risks and target resources to prevent accidents through effective risk recognition, assessment and control. This course is intended to provide familiarity with the concept of industrial safety, major accidents analysis and loss prevention.

Who can attend?

Safety Officers and Loss Prevention Officers. All personnel involved in implementing the Company’s Health-Safety-Environment (HSE) Management System.

Training Methodology:
Participants will learn by active participation during the program through the use of exercises, group discussion, training videos and discussions on relevant topics and case studies in their organizations as well as other regional organizations.

Course Outline:
The course will be held in 3 days as follows:

Day-1:
 

·        Principles of Industrial Safety and Loss Prevention

·        Hazard recognition

·        Evaluation and Control

·        Safety communication

·        Employee investment.  

Day-2: 

·        Safety training

·        Safety teams

·        Audits and inspections

·        Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene

·        Ergonomics,

·        PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)

·        Off-the-Job Safety and Safety Awareness Program  

Day-3:

·        Accident theories and Root Cause Analysis

·        Case studies for major accidents such as flix-borough, Bhopal etc.

·        Injury and illness reporting and Recordkeeping

·        Maintaining Safety function

 

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Behavioral Based Safety

Course Objectives:

This course is intended to give engineers and team leaders how to recognize and enhance positive employee's behavior and attitude as contributors to a safe and healthy work. 

Who can attend?

Safety engineers, process engineers, maintenance engineers and team leaders.  

Training Methodology
Participants will learn by active participation during the program through the use of exercises, group discussion, training videos and discussions on relevant topics and case studies in their organizations as well as other regional organizations. 

Course Outline:

The course will be held in 3 days as follows: 

Day-1:

·        Introduction

·        Basic Principles of  Behavioral Based Safety (BBS)

·        Defining Critical behaviors

·        Developing and reviewing the behavioral inventory

·        Train observers and Conducting Kick-off meetings

·        Implementation roles and responsibilities  

Day- 2: 

·        Process feedback and improvement (Providing two-way feedback)

·        ABC Model analysis

·        BBS process alignment

·        Data-Based Action- planning for continuous improvement  

Day- 3:

·        BBS Critical Success factors

·        Identifying and removing barriers to safe behavior

·        Incident investigations as per BBS – fix problem, not to blame

·        Outcomes and Case histories Study

·        Safety Performance Measurements

 

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Chemical Process – Root Cause Analysis

Course Objectives:

 

To enable the process of Incident Investigation & RCA to be learned so that each individual skill of investigation & RCA can be recognized, developed and applied.

Who can attend?

-          Safety  Engineers, Supervisors and Officers

-          Process/ Operation  Engineers

-          Process/ Operation Supervisors & Team Leaders

-          Maintenance Engineers

-          Maintenance Supervisors and Team Leaders 

-          Incidents Investigation Team Members

Training Methodology
 
Participants will learn by active participation during the program through the use of exercises, group discussion, training videos and discussions on relevant types of Incidents / accidents reports & types and case studies in their organizations as well as other regional international organizations.

Course Outline:

This course will be given in 5 days and will cover the following concepts: 

Day-1: 

·        Introduction & Definitions

·        Causes of accidents & incidents

·        Work injuries by type of an accident

·        Accidents, injuries and losses

·        Unsafe acts and unsafe conditions

·        Accident-injury relationship

·        Accident-cost relationship

·        Parts of the body injured on the job

·        Chemical burn injuries

·        Heat burn injuries

·        Repetitive strain / soft tissue injuries

·        Introduction of theories of incident / accident causation. 

Day-2:

·        Domain Theory of accident causation

·        Human factor theory of accident causation

·        Combination theory of accident causation

·        Behavioral theory of accident causation

·        Other types of accident causation theories

·        Tape show

·        Case study – Chemical plant & team discussion

·        Case Histories - Explosion case

Day-3: 

·        Incident / Accident reporting barriers and solutions

·        Conducting the investigation

·        Incident / Accident investigation

·        Roles & Responsibilities

·        Incidents / Accidents investing team RCA & conclusions

·        Incident / Accident Investigation team recommendations

·        Incident / Accident Investigation reporting to Management

·        Tape Show

·        Case Study & Team discussion  

Day-4:

·        Your role in incident / accident investing

·        Incident / accident Investigation Program Management

·        The realities of Accident Investigation Management Philosophy

·        The realities of Accident Investigation – Job Safety Analysis

·        Examples from Industries on type of incident / accident process and reports

·        Role of condition reporting as a protective way for incident / accident prevention method

·        Case Study & Team discussion 

Day-5:

·        Behavior Based Incident Investigation method

·        Questions asked during an Incident / Accident Investigation (including checklists)

·        Tips for being helpful during an investigation

·        Incident / Accident process including checklists

·        Gap Analysis for incident / accident Reporting & Investigations

·        Safety awareness programs related to incident / accident prevention.

·        Lessons learned from Industry (Bhopal, Flix borough, Seveso, etc.)

·        Team discussion

·        Summary & Conclusion

·        Test what you have learned about Incident / Accident Investigation

·        References

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Confined Space Entry (CSE) from A-Z

Course Objectives:

This course is intended to operation, maintenance, and Safety workers in order to identify hazards with Confined Spaces Entries and how to control them.

Who can attend?

Operations, maintenance, EH&S staff.