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The 10 Biggest Mistakes of a Team Leader

The 10 Biggest Mistakes of a Team Leader

The simple truth is that with good effective team leaders they can drive their teams to achieve all the critical aspects of their business goals and objectives. The quality of team leadership usually determines the success of the...

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7 habits to ruin your Root Cause Analysis (and how to avoid them)

7 habits to ruin your Root Cause Analysis (and how to avoid them)

Complex problems in your technical systems might appear not to be so complex at all, if your facilitators were able to keep it simple. But in a complex world we expect problems to be complex and therefore we create complex approaches even for simple...

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Which Wireline Tools Do You Know That Can Measure Porosity?

Which Wireline Tools Do You Know That Can Measure Porosity?

If you believe that for most of you this will be a very easy question to answer, think it twice, most people will answer something like this: That is easy! Density, neutron & sonic, some others that are a little more technical will include Nuclear...

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4 Principles to Improve FMECA Sessions and Quality

4 Principles to Improve FMECA Sessions and Quality

Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis is a convenient method to gather knowledge and experience about the behavior of your technical systems, apart from the information and specifications you already have in your documentation. FMECA...

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Waterworld – The Earth Has Seen It Before

Waterworld – The Earth Has Seen It Before

Waterworld is a 1995 American post-apocalyptic science fiction action film starring Kevin Costner. The setting of the film is in the distant future. Although no exact date was given in the film itself, it has been suggested that it takes place in...

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Keep Your Financial Accounting Skills Set-Sharp Relevant

Keep Your Financial Accounting Skills Set-Sharp Relevant

“Are you losing touch with your financial accounting know-how and getting left behind in today’s world of rapid change and economic turmoil?” You may think your financial accounting know-how is adequate and up-to-date for financial...

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7 Listening Tips to Improve Communication Effectiveness

7 Listening Tips to Improve Communication Effectiveness

Where communication is poor, mistakes arise, relationships breakdown and opportunities are missed!  There is a real distinction between merely hearing the words and really listening for the message. When we listen effectively we understand what...

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Self-Belief in Leadership: Harnessing the Power Within

Self-Belief in Leadership: Harnessing the Power Within

Leadership is one of the great enigmas – some seem to ‘have it’, whilst others don’t, some find it easy, whilst others don’t, some demonstrate it, whilst others don’t.  Unfortunately, there is no magic formula for leadership, as there...

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Where Oil is First Found in the Minds of Men

Where Oil is First Found in the Minds of Men

Oil can also be found in new sedimentary basins or in old basins but with new ideas but it is rarely found in old basins with old ideas’. But carrying this one step further oil can be found in old basins using sometimes old data to generate new...

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Oops...Hang On, I’m the Manager Now! - 5 To Dos for First Time Managers

Oops...Hang On, I’m the Manager Now! - 5 To Dos for First Time Managers

So you’ve been newly promoted to being a Manager – Congratulations!  Now after all the excitement at your promotion has died down you are probably realising that being a great manager doesn’t happen automatically – if only that were the...

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7 Steps to Motivation through Mastery

7 Steps to Motivation through Mastery

Getting the best from team members has always been high on the priority list for supervisors, managers and leaders. To achieve this, managers have traditionally set direction, supervised closely and rewarded or reprimanded depending on output....

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BACK-ROOM TO BOARDROOM: The 6 Core Competencies of a Modern Finance Professional

BACK-ROOM TO BOARDROOM: The 6 Core Competencies of a Modern Finance Professional

In the globally competitive world of the 21st century financial professionals, and the finance function itself, are under greater scrutiny and pressure than ever before to help cut costs, to grow revenue and to maintain control. Under these...

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6 STEPS FOR SUCCESSFUL INCIDENT INVESTIGATION

6 STEPS FOR SUCCESSFUL INCIDENT INVESTIGATION

“What happened, and what can we do to prevent this from happening again?” It really is essential that you and your organisation have a confident and professional team able to conduct a thorough Accident Investigation as soon as practicable...

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Towards a Reliable and Stable Power System…

Towards a Reliable and Stable Power System…

Reliable electric power systems serve customer loads without interruptions at different voltage levels. Power plants are meant to generate enough power to meet the customer demand. At the same time, transmission systems are responsible for...

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Leadership and Effective Communication

Leadership and Effective Communication

Leadership – one of the great enigmas in the modern world.  There’s very little that we don’t know about Leadership – it’s just gaining agreement.  If you Google ‘leadership’ you will see hundreds of definitions, as well as many...

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