Soft Skills

Tackling climate change is the key issue for the oil and gas industry in the years ahead. How will you respond?

The authors provide practical suggestions for improving your presentations to management so that your research contributions are more likely to be supported.

Cajetan Onu, senior reservoir geologist, Total E&P UK, talks about the importance of hard work.

Technical and managerial career paths are not mutually exclusive. For 80 or 90% of technical management roles, there is significant common ground with respect to the journey, accomplishments, recognition, and relative success.

A few books worth mentioning to bolster the petroleum engineer's library.

Navigating your career in times of volatile oil prices.

Kurt Weiss walks readers through several recent studies about the importance of gender diversity within the industry.

We all have choices about how to handle difficult people at work. Sometimes our old patterns of behavior in dealing with hard-to-manage people may limit our thinking and thus, our effectiveness. It is essential to revisit our choices before we are in a crisis or a time-bounded reactive situation.

Adel Anwar, management consultant, focuses on effective thinking and superior leadership.

Systems thinking, sometimes called the "fifth discipline", is a way for teams and individuals to look for changes that will provide long-term improvements.