Petrochemical 3

The Question:

How to keep global project teams focused, aligned and committed.

The Client

A global oil and gas exploration and producing company.

The Challenge:

The opportunity to develop reserves in an international offshore location created the need to blend the needs and interests of several investment partner companies with those of developing nations. The company needed to design and manage a project organization and develop project teams and project team leaders to ensure that all parties would be focused, aligned and committed throughout the life of the project.

GLA's Role:

We provided consultation to the Project Leadership Team along several key dimensions:

• Designed the project organization
• Defined the structure, staffing, roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities
• Defined a competency map for each critical position
• Designed a succession planning process to ensure that critical positions would have qualified people ready as rotational assignments occurred during the project
• Provided ongoing consultation to the project team and executive coaching to individual Project Leadership Team members

Results:

• Measured and tracked development of the project team and the key project leaders throughout the life of the project
• Facilitated the completion of a complex package of commercial agreements through collaboration and teamwork
• Achieved agreement on structure and staffing of the Operating Company ahead of schedule
• Resolved significant governance issues without disrupting the project schedule
• Achieved increased levels of growth and development of the project team and its key functional leaders-this was clearly related to the successful achievement of project performance targets