Rick Heyland's special guests include; Susan Sharp VP- Sinclair Oil, Carina Gillenwater- VP- Southwestern Energy and Ana Ximenes- VP- RLG International. They share valuable leadership lessons over their distinguished careers.  They also share their insights into how to promote and mentor more female leaders.

Rick Heyland reviews the importance of weekly game planning to help focus and accomplish our most important goals.  Go to www.ci4life.org for a free download of the weekly game planning tool.

Improve your performance, employee ownership and positive accountability by facilitating a monthly business review that promotes “the great reversal” in meeting reporting and effectiveness. James Bowzer (ex-Marathon Oil and Baytex Executive) and Roger Laing (RLG VP and Business Unit leader) share their passion, enthusiasm and insights for the leader who wants to create a powerful monthly business review.

Improve the levels of stress, engagement and productivity of your employees and increase your shareholder return by four times the market by building your Trust. Rick Heyland and Ron Kiskis (ex-Chevron Executive) talk about the keys to developing this type of Trust in personal and professional relationships and partnerships.

Are you busy but not accomplishing the most important goals?  Are you just doing roundtable updates at your daily team meetings?  If you answered yes to these questions, you are likely stuck in the busy and unproductive trap. It is time to stop and change!  Rick Heyland, RLG International’s EVP Global Client Solutions discusses how to build practical and effective personal daily planning habits. Neil Longson, an RLG- VP and Business Unit leader, shares his best practices for daily team meetings and huddles that motivate members of a team.

37% of your meetings don’t add value!  Rick Heyland with Kevin Brown (ex-Lyondelbasell executive) and Don Telfer (RLG Team Leader) discuss solutions for more effective meetings that result in a high performing culture.

Rick Heyland of RLG International and Chris Miller Ex- Chevron Project Director discuss the issues and solutions for mega capital projects.  Chris adds his 40 years of Chevron Project experience and insights to discuss solutions for capital project success.  Among the solutions they discuss, the importance of quality front-end engineering and design and great leadership as key success factors for total shareholder value.

Rick Heyland discusses with several guests from RLG and Appian Corporation (automation experts) on the state of automation opportunities for work process improvement.  RLG special guests are Bradford Sledge and Craig Windes.  Appian Corporation guests are Glenn Healy and Ryan Byrne. Our hope that every leader listening to this podcast will find additional work processes in their business to automate in order to save time, money, employee stress and to drive out waste.

Collaboration, Trust and Empowerment are key to delivering outstanding results for Megaprojects.  Tjalling Terpstra (Project Director- Shell Oil company) and Rick Heyland (EVP RLG International) discuss the issues, and solutions for delivering megacapital projects.  Tjalling shares an early career example that lead him to a more collaborative contractor and stakeholder approach for capital projects.

RLG International's President and CEO Brad Farrow and EVP of Global Client Solutions Rick Heyland discuss the issues and solutions to successfully delivering mega capital projects.  Brad and Rick offer five solutions to on-time and on-budget delivery of mega capital projects:

1. Strong leadership skills
2. Contractor partnerships of trust
3. Development of the effective leading and lagging KPI's for each level of the organization
4. Highly visible and consistent Operating Rhythm™ to drive daily, weekly and monthly accountability
5. Integrated Schedule Optimization efforts to benefit contractor productivity