The StatoilHydro School is our prime mover for targeted, proactive competence growth. Through targeted learning we develop top-flight professionals who create added value for the company. By learning more we master new challenges and create an exciting workplace. Through sharing knowledge we develop talent and expertise.
The StatoilHydro School is a coordinated network of decentralised learning environments, representing the company’s business areas and process networks. It provides more than 1,000 learning programmes ranging from exploration to retail. We have over 50,000 participants annually. Extensive cooperation with leading universities and external training providers, combined with the use of innovative learning methods, make us a major player in business-driven competence development.
Our “People@StatoilHydro” process ensures that your development plan and ambitions match with the company’s needs and strategies. There are learning opportunities within varied subject areas and delivery modes that suit different needs: classroom courses, seminars, field courses, e-learning or blended learning. Courses can be accessed worldwide through a corporate learning portal. Each of StatoilHydro’s business areas and professional networks identifies emerging needs for competence and knowledge. The StatoilHydro School is all about creating learning opportunities, and meeting current and future challenges.
Project Academy
The StatoilHydro Project Academy was established in 2005 to develop and sustain a group of project executives and project professionals capable of delivering extraordinary project results, both in the shorter and longer term as well as in Norway and internationally. The Project Academy offers the following training streams that build upon each other to meet the evolving development needs of project personnel:
Project Fundamentals Programs (PF)
Project Leadership Experience (PLE)
Project Professional Programs (PP)
Project Executive Program (PE)
Project Academy mission:
To develop a community of project executives, professionals and leaders that consistently delivers extraordinary short and long term project results in both national and international settings.
Project Academy Goals:
- Develop current and next generation world class project executives and project professionals
- Create a step change in the effective and reliable delivery of major projects
- Enhance the skill and abilities of the project leadership community
- Improve connectivity in the global project community
- Maintain a strong StatoilHydro profile in the academy programs and collaborate with world class Academic institutions
The teaching is given as courses and programs at different levels and in association with Universities in Norway as well as abroad. StatoilHydro has cooperated with a number of universities in Norway and other countries for many years regarding Project Management programmes.
We cooperate with the following universities/institutions:
University of California Berkeley, USA
Bedriftsøkonomisk institutt, (BI), Norge
Cranfield University, UK
Norsk teknisk naturvitenskapelig universitet, (NTNU), Norge
University of Calgary, Canada
The following quote from The Wall Street Journal highlights the Project Executive program:
"Some long-term custom programs reach beyond the business school and draw in professors from other parts of the university. StatoilHydro ASA, the Norwegian oil company, has formed a partnership with the University of California at Berkeley for a one-year interdisciplinary program to prepare managers for projects in Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world. In addition to business-school professors, the StatoilHydro program brings in experts in engineering, international studies, sociology and psychology to teach classes that participants attend for one week each quarter. Statoil's own executives also teach in some classes, and a StatoilHydro representative is even stationed at Berkeley to work regularly with the school's administrators and professors...
We're helping prepare StatoilHydro's people for managing in uncertainty, communicating in cross-cultural environments and understanding the sociopolitical history of other regions of the world," says Whitney Hischier, assistant dean of the Center for Executive Development at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. "We have also brought in psychology professors who study microfacial expressions and show how style and physical appearance affect power and negotiations."
(Wall Street Journal, September 2007)
Candidates are to be nominated through the People@StatoilHydro process.
Corporate leadership development programmes
“Become a Leader” is offered to first-line managers. This leadership development programme emphasises and reinforces critical leadership competence and skills, and increases administrative effectiveness for first-line managers as well as broadening their professional network.
“Business Leadership Experience” is offered to middle managers and executives. It is designed to widen the breadth and depth of the leaders’ understanding of our business context, strategic ambitions and global challenges. Furthermore, the programme addresses our change agenda and builds necessary skills to drive, establish and maintain sustainable
change in a complex business environment.
“Executive Leadership Development” is offered to our top executives. It addresses our business strategy and important leadership issues, and consists of three workshops a year which are led by the CEO. External development programmes at two premier league business schools are offered to top executives based on individual development needs.
