Leaders are tasked with ‘motivating’ people and building engagement, but doing so can be difficult. In this course, participants will learn ways to help build employee engagement and performance, as well as leadership styles that can influence motivation and build positive behaviors. For more information or to register, go to https://aaimea.org/courses/motivational-skills-leaders/ 

Many new leaders are challenged by the volume of tasks and responsibilities that need to be resolved daily and weekly. These challenges affect the need to create vision and direction for a team or an organization. In order to be successful, leaders must plan and be proactive as it relates to time management. Participants will develop […]

Delegation and empowerment are essential leadership skills for managers. Delegation is a straightforward means of assigning tasks. Done effectively, it can be motivating. Empowerment is giving employees more autonomy with the aim of developing their commitment and expertise. Put together delegation and empowerment and there are wide-ranging benefits for the manager, the employees, and their […]

An effective letter or email informs, persuades, and impresses your reader. This class provides various methods for writing efficiently, avoiding pitfalls to written communication like passive sentences, wordiness, overuse of big words, and clichés. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on learning, participants will learn how to write simply and clearly, eliminate redundancies, and create […]

This course offers an introduction and review to the legal and regulatory compliance issues that persons in human resources or supervisory positions deal with on a day-to-day basis. The roles that HR can play within an organization will be explored.

HR Strategy: Organizational Strategy & Planning Human Resources professionals can help their organizations evolve and grow from being only reactive to forward thinking and proactive. Organizational strategy helps identify opportunities & challenges, develop measurable goals, and provide a framework for midstream adjustments. These strategies also help all members of the organization to become more accountable and take ownership […]

Everyone can be guilty of procrastinating from time to time and putting off unpleasant tasks. However, the habitual cycle of putting things off and slacking until the last minute, and the feeling of guilt that comes out of it, is something procrastinators often struggle with. This course goes beyond just the standard to-do list to […]

While most people and organizations enjoy stability and consistency, change is an inescapable fact in our lives. Technology and the economy demand that we adapt to new and different circumstances on a continual basis.  And yet, most people find change threatening and resist it; even positive change. As leaders, you will be creating and facilitating change throughout your […]

Nothing is more important to an organization than retaining and developing the talent that will lead to the preservation and future success of the organization. Yet, the competency of developing people is one of the newer competency focuses for leaders. It doesn’t have to be mysterious and it is important for leaders to learn how […]