BUILDING AN INDUSTRY BENCHMARK
The Competency Alliance approach began in 2001 in the oil and gas sector. BP and Shell collaborated with external learning provider OGCI to create the PetroSkills Alliance.
 | Why? - Certain aspects of training are important, but not unique and can leverage external resources if done well at lower cost.
- By collaborating together, the industry can create a pool of performance ready professionals, thus reducing the need to poach skilled talent from competitors.
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 | How? - An alliance of companies across an industry has greater collective resources and can provide content and curriculum oversight, as well as identifying and engaging subject matter experts and instructors.
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 | What? - A full spectrum of competency-based training programs and organizational learning & development tools for both technical and operations & maintenance professionals.
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Through this Alliance approach, PetroSkills has delivered training to over 500,000 learners in 160 countries.
HOW THE ALLIANCE WORKS
RenewableSkills, like all sectors in The Competency Alliance, is structured to build competency frameworks through collaboration.
 | Alliance Advisory Board - strategy and processes - Approves Board Members
- Directs Sector Councils and Discipline Networks
- Provides approval and quality assurance for Alliance processes
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 | Sector Councils - program and quality assurance - Identify competencies needed to deliver business outcomes
- Approve content to deliver competencies
- Facilitate continuous improvement
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 | Discipline Networks - technical integrity and cross-sector collaboration - Describe inventory of skills needed for each functional discipline
- Define activites required to develop skills at each level
- Identify and approve experts to direct courses
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