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Leadership for Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages
Developed by Joel Levitt and the Life Cycle Institute

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Leading a strategic outage combines careful
planning and effective leadership
Navigate
difficult
situations and
people
Motivate
teams and
sustain morale
Master
decision-
making, time
management
and
communication

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Developed by Joel Levitt, world renowned
expert in maintenance management
Based on Joel’s highly acclaimed book
“Managing Maintenance Shutdowns and
Outages”
Aligned with maintenance management
best practices as taught by the Life Cycle
Institute and Life Cycle Engineering

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Participants will learn how to:
Assess your leadership and decision-making style
Motivate teams and sustain morale during a planned
outage
Cope with difficult situations and people
Practice verbal and non-verbal communication
techniques
Handle the legal side of a shutdown
Develop a personal action plan to increase
productivity

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Leadership for Shutdowns, Turnarounds and
Outages
2-day workshop
1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Private
Workshops may be tailored to your specific needs and
delivered at your site.
STO Competency Improvement Program
This course is delivered as part of the three-week STO
Competency Improvement Program

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Who Should Attend
• Maintenance Managers
• Maintenance Supervisors
• Key Staffers in Heavy Maintenance Environments,
• Shutdown/Outage Team Members such as
– Maintenance Engineers
– Planners
– Project Managers
– Outage Planners
– Project Engineers
• Non-Maintenance Managers responsible for shutdowns
• Site Personnel with potential to lead and manage future outages

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Shutdown leadership rests on three legs
PEOPLE SKILLSMANAGEMENT
SKILLS
TECHNICAL
SKILLS

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Motivational Techniques
Recognition Treat people
with respect
Offer Training Give them
power or
ownership

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Leading shutdowns requires effective
communications
Communicate to support management objectives
Watch body language - 70% of communication comes from
non-verbal cues
Be mindful of differences in communication across genders,
cultures, ethnicities, and class

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What is a contract?
When are contracts needed?
Types of contracts
Rules of contracts
Making contract revisions
Request bids
To handle the legal side of shutdowns, leadership
must know…
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3 Reasons to Choose the Life Cycle Institute
Building competency is what we DO!
Our team of learning professionals understands what it takes before,
during and after training to change behavior to produce results!
LCI instructors are trained learning facilitators
Rigorous facilitator qualification and certification process
Focus on the learning process and transfer to the job
Engage learners, reinforce relevancy and integrate prior experience
LCI training is an active experience
Learning by doing vs. lecture
Group activities, assessments, case studies
Network with peers
Develop action plans to drive results post-training
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The Life Cycle Institute is the learning, leadership and
change management practice at Life Cycle Engineering.