
SPE Online Education
Business Essentials Courses
Corporate Social Responsibility
Contains 2 Component(s), 0.4 credits offeredCorporate social responsibility (CSR) is the concept of organizations taking responsibility for their impact on society and the environment. Businesses which embrace CSR promote the public interest through what they do (for example, encouraging community growth and development) and what they refrain from doing (for example, eliminating or avoiding practices that harm stakeholders, regardless of whether such practices are legal).
Data Analysis for Improving Organizational Performance
Contains 2 Component(s), 0.5 credits offeredThis intermediate-level course will explain some of these measures and tools, describe some specific measurements, and explain the relationship between assessment and strategy. Summarizing the data with the correct tool can be the gating factor to reaching staff and effecting changes that spur performance improvement.
Data Analysis in the Real World
Contains 2 Component(s), 0.5 credits offeredThis intermediate-level course will provide answers to these questions as well as recommendations for decision-making based on data analytics for each sector. The course will begin with an introduction of Big Data, then continue into a deeper dive on its implications within each sector. Industry case studies make the concepts applicable in the real-world.
Effective Communication
Contains 2 Component(s), 0.25 credits offeredFocuses on improving business writing. You will learn how to write clearly and directly for your audience.
Effective Negotiation
Contains 2 Component(s), 0.4 credits offeredEvery day we are involved in negotiations of one form or another.
How to Coach
Contains 2 Component(s), 0.4 credits offeredThis brief course focuses on the skills and techniques of positive coaching in an organizational setting including listening actively, providing constructive feedback based on observation, reinforcing positive employee performance through recognition and praise, and teaching new skills.
Introduction to Data Analysis
Contains 2 Component(s), 0.5 credits offeredUpon completion of this course, the participant should be able to: review surface flowing well conditions with the goal of optimizing production, describe the basic layout of an upstream producing facility and the functions of its major components, outline the general requirements for separating and treating produced oil as a basis for a detailed facility design, and plan and oversee routine field maintenance work, and maintain a safe operation through proper application of good work practices and the careful control of site activities.
Introduction to Project Management
Contains 2 Component(s), 0.35 credits offeredThis course was designed as a supplemental study guide for the major content areas of Chapters 1 and 2 of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Fifth Edition. In this course, you will consider some of the organizational issues surrounding project management.
Leading and Managing Change
Contains 2 Component(s), 0.4 credits offeredBased on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, this course addresses the key issues managers face in a dynamic environment.