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

Master
Navigate decision-
Motivate difficult making, time
teams and situations and management
sustain morale people 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

MANAGEMENT PEOPLE SKILLS

SKILLS
TECHNICAL
SKILLS

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Motivational Techniques

Recognition Treat people Offer Training Give them

with respect 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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To handle the legal side of shutdowns, leadership
must know…
What is a contract?

When are contracts needed?

Types of contracts

Rules of contracts

Making contract revisions 99

Request bids

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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.

Education@LCE.com
www.LCE.com
800-556-9589

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