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A photo of Mesa Power Solutions' employees at a Leadership 101 course and their materials.

Teaching Leadership: Three Reasons Your Company Should Have Leadership Training

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe success of a company largely depends on its leadership. Therefore, companies should invest in teaching leadership to their employees to see positive results in terms of employee engagement, productivity, and overall success. In fact, teaching leadership in a company can have a significant impact on the growth and success of the organization. Below, we will explore three reasons why teaching leadership in a company is crucial, including increased employee engagement, improved productivity, and the ability to adapt to change. Increase Employee Engagement First, when companies teach leadership, it can increase employee engagement. When companies provide leadership training to their employees, it makes them feel valued by their employers. As a result, they are more likely to feel that they are part of the company’s success and become more engaged in their work. Engaged employees are motivated to work harder and be more productive, making them more loyal to the company and more likely to stay for the long term. By investing in leadership training, companies can create a culture where employees feel empowered to take ownership of their work

Mesa Power Solutions Senior Technician adjusting the control panel on a generator in North Dakota.

Becoming a Master Technician at Mesa Solutions: A Challenging Journey

Reading Time: 2 minutesMesa Solutions provides many opportunities for career advancement. One of those opportunities is tailored specifically to our generator technicians. Becoming a Master Technician at Mesa is a challenging journey.  Mesa offers all the necessary study materials, troubleshooting guides, coaching, and mentoring to help technicians succeed in their careers. Entry-level Generator Technician Training As an entry-level Generator Technician, Mesa puts your career in your hands. Technicians undergo an initial Generator Technician training program in Casper to equip them with the knowledge and skills to be successful in their careers. This training is followed by the Generator Technician Program, a step-based career development program designed to improve proficiency and advance careers. Once technicians have completed their initial training, they return to their assigned basin and enter the Generator Technician Program. This is a step-based career development program designed to improve their proficiency and advance their careers. The first step is to pass the Technician Assessment, which includes a written exam and a hands-on demonstration of the components of the Mesa generators, as well as some basic service tasks. Upon completion of this

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Mesa’s Leadership Reading List

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe leadership team at Mesa Solutions has a goal to train leaders at all levels of the company. To achieve this goal, a reading list has been compiled and curated to include books that help develop and hone leadership skills and traits, and to help foster Mesa’s values and culture in all employees. The reading list includes reading material that is required reading for those in leadership positions and is recommended reading for every Mesa employee to give them insights and tips on developing these important skills. Listed below are books that create a strong foundation for teamwork and leadership. Each Mesa employee is given the book The Ideal Team Player on their first day and encouraged to read it to discover what three qualities make a great team player. Not much of a reader? Start with one. Then another. You’ll have the whole list knocked out in no time! In the wise words of Fred Fichtner, COO and reading list administrator, “If you don’t think you have time to read, you don’t have time to lead.”  1. The Ideal

Brief Drilling History

Reading Time: 3 minutesMesa Solutions understands that to know where things are going, we must know where things have been. Mesa Solutions cares about history, place, roots. Driving our work at this point is a compilation of all that have come before us, building upon hard work that has already been done. This article is aimed at giving Mesa Solutions’ customers a brief drilling history and lifting as it relates to oil production. The word petroleum derives from the Latin petra ‘rock’ and Latin oleum ‘oil’ – literally, “rock oil”. Bituminous rocks and liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons are often exposed at the earth’s surface or flow freely at low pressures – a natural occurrence commonly known as a petroleum seep. Early civilizations exploited these natural seepages of petroleum, asphalt, bitumen, tar and pitch for thousands of years, evidenced by bitumen adhesive on the ancient tools of the Neanderthals, as a setting material for Mesopotamian jewelry, and, in antiquity, as the waterproofing for Greek and Roman ships. The Chinese were the first to drill wells in order to reach the hydrocarbons trapped beneath the