Human Performance Improvement for the
Turkish Energy Sector

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Who’s going to
fill those boots?

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Reality Check!
• How concerned are you about the availability of key skills?
• What do you expect to happen to headcount in your
company over the next 12 months?
• Based on survey conducted: 57% of Turkish employers
are concerns about the availability of key skills.
• The global average is about 35%.
SO, WHAT WILL YOU DO?

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Talent Management
Boards Give Their Companies an "F”
What is top of mind for
corporate boards?
Corporate directors identified
talent management as their
single greatest strategic
challenge.
Source:http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/05/talent-management-boards-give/
by Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell | 12:00 PM May 28, 2013

How can you
make him an
expert?

Solving Your Operations & Engineering
Talent Challenge with Performance
Improvement Solutions

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Energy Demand vs. Your Talent Requirements
Who can fill the shoes? How? With what?
Sources: ExxonMobil, The Outlook For Energy: A View to 2040,
2013
Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD), 2009
Global energy demand up 35%
by 2040
Technology: No barrier
Investment: No barrier
Trained resources: Big barrier
Growing demand for skilled
operators and process engineers
Highly competitive environment
30% turnover
“Boomers” retiring
Imperatives
Improve employee sourcing
Speed up onboarding
Increase up-skilling effectiveness
GLOBAL
ENERGY
DEMAND
QUALIFIED
ENERGY OPS
& ENGINEER
TALENT

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Talent Management Not Addressed in
Traditional DCS Vendor Approach
Focus on
engineering
lifecycle
Enter lifecycle
early
Gain
mindshare/acco
unt control
Image courtesy of Statoil

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 Create a digital
learning environment
SIMULATION
& TRAINING
TECHNOLOGIES
What You Can Do
E2E Life Cycle Simulation & Training Technologies
 Improve design
accuracy
 Reduce “Time to Autonomy”
 Reduce attrition
 Reduce time to
assess design
cases
 Determine control
variables with greater
effectiveness
 Reduce turn-
around times
 Develop control strategies
in virtual plant setting
 Increase production performance
 Operate process
safely with greater
confidence
 Improve process
understanding
 Improve operator
effectiveness
 Increase knowledge
transfer
 Improve ability to
handle process upsets
 Enjoy faster production
start-ups
 Improved testing of modifications
to controls/ process
 Reduce
operational risks
 Reduce
environmental
incidents
 Experience less
equipment damage
 Increase plant
availability

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Plus…
Pre-Employment Assessments
Smart Operator Assistants
Bridge the Talent Management Gap
Experience, Process, Technology
Process
Fundamentals
Self Paced Tutorial
Applied Learning
through Generic
Simulation
Instructor Led
Real World
Knowledge
Transfer
Mentoring
Unit Specific
Experiential Learning
Custom Operator
Training Simulators
Process Control
Self Paced Tutorial

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Representative GSE Energy Industry
Customers

Demonstrations

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6 Important Questions
On the journey to develop employees into autonomous
decision-makers (i.e., make them Experts) how much is
1 less day of training worth to you?
What does it cost to bring in an “outsider” SME versus
advancing someone from your own “bench?”
How much is a 1% improvement in operator effectiveness
worth to you?
How much would you save if you could eliminate 1 day of
commissioning and startup?
How much would you save if you could eliminate just 1
unplanned shutdown per year?
How much is 1 less reportable incident worth to you?

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