My organisation encourages charitable activities
As part of Marathon Oil "Achieving Excellence" leadership course, attendees took part in a charity team building event. This involved small groups of five visiting local charities and community projects to understand their business challenges. The teams then worked on potential strategies to help the charities meet these challenges. The groups reported their findings at a networking event attended by the charities' management teams and
Marathon Oil senior leadership team. As well as supporting these third sector organisations in the local community, this gave their employees an opportunity to develop their business acumen in an environment very different to their own.
The Energy Schools Challenge is a competition organised by the Energy Institute, OPITO and local radio station, NorthSound 1, aimed at emphasising career opportunities the Energy sector offers, as well as helping to improve links between industry and education. The competition is recorded from September-November at different venues, with two shows being recorded at each venue over each evening. The shows are then broadcast on local radio. Each team is made up of secondary school pupils from S3-S6, who answer questions on both an individual and team basis, on a variety of topics, including energy, and also questions set by and specific to the host company. Marathon has sponsored and hosted the event for a number of years; most recently the energy related presentation and questions being presented by their industrial placement students.
Their F&A team supported local Arrdeir House Residential Home where they helped with a garden project.