Report: Competing on the labor market
Jane Duinisveld, Technip
Jacco van Uden, De Haagse Hogeschool
To break the ice the workshop starts with dividing the group in two and a pile of LEGO blocks on the table. An introduction of people is ignored on purpose. The two groups are asked to build a tower. No other information is given. For example it isn’t said that this is a competition. From time to time some members get a little note though, saying ‘it has to be a high tower’ or ‘it needs to be a very stable tower’.
The purpose of this exercise is to see how people cooperate when conditions (just like in the O&G sector) are not clear.
Next is an inventory, through a brain dump, of what can be gained when companies cooperate within the O&G sector. The outcome of this session is clustered and 1 theme is chosen:
The gaining of talent when showing a cohesive group (group branding, branding the sector)
- Reach a biggergroup
- Knowledge extension
- Achieving more goals
- Tuning -> demandeducation
- Flexpoolthrough companies/sectors
- More exposure as a sector
- Better preparation for a new generation of employees
- Prevent the same work is done twice
- Allround/broadperspective
- What is gained by one company is lost by an other company
- Cross-contamination
The yellow highlighted items where marked as the two most important by the group
In the following session, three groups worked on answering the opposed question: ‘What do you have to do to destroy a cohesive performance’. Every group is working on this question from a different perspective:
- What do you have to do….
- What does the company need to do….
- What do other organizations need to do….
Tables (including perspective) are switched after some time.
The outcome of this session is (re-)connected tothe original question and from these answers a top 5 is selected:
- One voice -> 1 oil & gas sector
- Diversity (no more old boys network).
- Search for subjects that enable openness
- Perform as a group of companies towards schools