Introduction
IHRDC's Business Essentials e-Learning Series is an innovative set of self-paced modular courses in four key business areas designed to improve the critical business skills of individuals working in the International Oil and Gas Industry. All modules are carefully designed for flexible and efficient learning in a corporate environment.
IHRDC has tailored these business modules to meet the practical needs of individuals within the oil and gas industry through a partnership with a leading, Boston-based e-Learning developer of business topics for major corporations and top business schools. Through this partnership, IHRDC offers timely and engaging online business modules in four key topic areas: Finance, Communications, Human Resource Management and Project Management.
Audience
The Business Essentials Series is ideal for all Oil and Gas Industry personnel who need to improve their business knowledge and skills.
Key Features
- Very effective learning at modest cost
- Tailored to the oil and gas industry
- Flexible for today's busy professionals
- Accessible worldwide
- Comprised of rigorous content
- Based on engaging, real-world examples, readings and case studies
- SCORM 1.2 compliant
Business Essentials Modules
For optimum flexibility, the Business Essentials modules may be pursued individually, organized into an integrated course structure or incorporated into your learning management system.
Finance
A working knowledge of finance is important for personnel at all levels of an organization. With detailed oil and gas industry examples, our finance modules enable non-financial professionals to understand your corporate financial fundamentals, read financial statements, and understand why they are important.
- Overview of Finance
- Accounting Concepts and Financial Statement Analysis
- Time Value of Money Principles
- Risk and Return
- Practical Tools for Planning and Control
- Valuing Real Assets
Communications
The ability to communicate effectively in all areas of business is a key management skill. This communication series teaches the fundamentals of effective business writing and purposeful presentations by using relevant oil and gas industry examples.
- Effective Communication
- Organizing and Structuring
- Writing Effectively
- Presentation Basics
- Purposeful Presentations
Human Resource Management
Management and development of human and intellectual capital is one of the most important functional disciplines in the oil and gas industry because it focuses on ensuring the organization has a competent and productive workforce in a time of manpower scarcity. Because they contain examples pertinent to the industry, the modules address vital personnel issues, from planning and recruiting to performance management.
- Introduction to Human Resource Management
- Planning and Recruiting
- Employee Selection
- Training and Development
- Employment Benefits
- Performance Management
- Compensation
- Talent Management and Career Development
- Equal Employment Opportunity
- Ethics, Employee Rights and Discipline
- Employee Health and Safety
- Other HRM Issues
Project Management
Project management refers to the interrelated processes required to plan, implement and direct successful projects. Using relevant oil and gas mini-case studies, this series of modules covers both the theory and actual practice of project management. They teach the concepts, methodologies and tools of project management, as well as its major management components, including the management of schedule, costs, quality, environmental impact and procurement, as well as project integration. This series follows the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and prepares learners for the PMBOK exam.
- Introduction to Project Management
- Project Processes
- Teamwork and Managing People
- Project Communications
- Project Scoping and Tracking
- Project Time Management
- Project Cost Management
- Project Risk Management
- Project Quality Management
- Project Procurement Management
- Practice Examination: PMBOK Knowledge