Overview:

Digital projects succeed or fail on people, not platforms. In this intensive full-day workshop, you’ll move beyond theory to build a tailored change-management toolkit complete with real-world frameworks, hands-on simulations, and peer coaching so you can diagnose resistance, engage critical stakeholders, and keep your digital oilfield initiatives on track.

What Will You Learn?

• Pinpoint behavioural roadblocks using a proven “Wheel of Change Agility.”
• Identify and prioritize formal and informal influencers in your organization.
• Craft targeted messaging and intervention strategies for frontline adoption.
• Practice real-world pushback scenarios and refine your response techniques.
• Develop SMART milestones, accountability checkpoints, and success metrics.

Who Should Attend?

• Transformation executives and program sponsors
• Digital project leads in IT, OT or operations
• Vendor client-success and implementation teams
• Change-agent networks and innovation champions

Why Choose This Workshop?

• Exercises and case studies specific to upstream, midstream, and downstream challenges.
• Mix of facilitated lectures, small-group work, role plays, and peer coaching.
• Leave with a fully sketched change roadmap plus stakeholder-engagement templates.
• Delivered by seasoned practitioners who’ve driven digital transformations in major operators.

Agenda:

9:00–9:15    Welcome & Workshop Kick-off

• Workshop objectives & outcomes
• Participant introductions & “biggest change challenge” icebreaker

9:15–10:30    Module 1: Understanding Change Dynamics

• Mini lecture: why tech isn’t the blocker
• Case study debrief: a stalled SCADA rollout
• Self-assessment: map your organization’s resistance profile

10:30–10:50    Morning Break

10:50–12:05    Module 2: Stakeholder Mapping & Influence

• Identify formal vs. informal power holders
• Workshop: build your stakeholder-influence matrix
• Breakout: draft three tailored engagement plans

12:05–12:50    Lunch Break

12:50–14:05    Module 3: The Wheel of Change Agility Framework

• Framework walkthrough: Diagnose • Design • Deliver • Drive
• Small-group simulation: select one “spoke” and apply it to a live project scenario
• Debrief: lessons learned and best-practices checklist

14:05–14:25    Afternoon Break

14:25–15:40    Module 4: Building Your Influence Playbook

• Template introduction: messaging, channels, cadence
• Role-play exercise: handle common pushback from operations and IT teams
• Peer feedback and refinement of your own playbook

15:40–16:00    Short Break

16:00–16:45    Module 5: Action-Planning & Peer Coaching

• Draft your 90-day change roadmap with SMART objectives
• Peer-review pairs: critique milestones, metrics, and risk-mitigation steps

16:45–17:00    Wrap-Up & Next Steps

• Consolidated toolkit handout (templates + checklists)
• Q&A and resource pointers
• Feedback survey & closing remarks