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Conclave 2024

December 5, 2023
 |  Learning and Development
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Refinery Redesigns Critical Training in Response to COVID-19 Crisis

August 19, 2021
 |  Learning and Development
By 2020, many companies had already begun attempts to transition their training from face-to-face and add more e-learning and virtual delivery, but the COVID-19 pandemic hastened these companies to make their move with immediacy! Additionally, the industry’s financial health, used to previous highs and lows of economic cycles, faced an oil price de...
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Instructor of the Month | Kindra Snow-McGregor

July 7, 2021
 |  Learning and Development
Let me introduce you to one of our incredible instructors, Kindra Snow-McGregor. Kindra is the Technical Director of Oil and Gas Processing at PetroSkills | John M. Campbell and is the instructor for a lengthy list of courses including Overview of Gas Processing - G-2, Gas Conditioning and Processing - G-4, and all of our G-4 Short Courses, to name...
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Training Reimagined and Lessons Learned Down the Virtual Road

June 2, 2021
 |  Learning and Development
During the COVID 19 pandemic, all face-to-face training came to a hard stop in March of 2020. As a training organization in the Oil and Gas Industry with a large offering of face-to-face training courses, we were faced with a significant challenge to quickly convert our course offerings to virtual delivery. Our success in the conversion of the mate...
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PetroSkills Simulation Solutions Delivers First Virtual Simulator Course

June 18, 2020
 |  PetroSkills News
In May, PetroSkills Simulation Solutions delivered its very first series of virtual simulator courses. Learn about the virtual training process and hear from participants who took the course.
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Investing in People: How to Quantify the Value of Competency Development

April 17, 2013
 |  Learning and Development
For all the emphasis placed on competency development, training budgets are almost always the first cut during any kind of down turn. For competency management to become more than a Human Resource Management fad it will have to demonstrate quantified financial return. This abstract outlines one approach to quantify the return on competency develo...
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