AAIM

Conflict, Coaching & Challenging Discussions LIVE ONLINE - May 2026
2026-05-07 13:30 - 2026-05-14 15:30 (America/Chicago) | AAIM St. Louis Office, 12851 Manchester Rd., Suite 150, St. Louis, MO, 63131, United States
As a Leader, Mentor, or Team Member, managing important conversations well is a critical aspect of your role. This two-part series is focused on all aspects of Business Conversations. This series is designed to enhance the participants’ ability to manage conflict within a team, provide effective coaching to members of the team, lead challenging discussions and provide follow up to assess results to help the team to move forward with success.

Conflict, Coaching & Challenging Discussions ST. LOUIS 05/08/2026
2026-05-08 08:30 - 12:00
As a Leader, Mentor, or Team Member, managing important conversations well is a critical aspect of your role. This four-part series is focused on all aspects of Business Conversations. This series is designed to enhance the participants’ ability to manage conflict within a team, provide effective coaching to members of the team, lead challenging discussions and provide follow up to assess results to help the team to move forward with success.

Presentation Skills ST. LOUIS 05/08/2026 - CANCELLED
2026-05-08 18:00 - 21:30
Presentation Skills is an interactive course designed to help professionals speak efficiently and effectively by teaching ways to prepare and deliver presentations, and engage audiences. This course provides an encouraging environment where participants can “get their feet wet” in the art of public speaking. For more information or to register, go to https://aaimea.org/courses/presentation-skills/

Personal Productivity LIVE ONLINE 05/08/2026
2026-05-08 13:30 - 15:30
We all face this daily challenge: too much to do and not enough time to do it. Do you feel overwhelmed by your workload? Do you wish that you could just stop the flood of emails, voicemails, interruptions, and meetings?

This course is all about helping you find better ways to effectively deal with these challenges, get your work done, achieve more, and decrease your stress. We concentrate on practical “how-to” information. That includes tips, techniques, and strategies that will have an immediate impact on your personal productivity.

Navigating Management: Harnessing DiSC® for Effective Leadership - CANCELLED
2026-05-12 13:30 - 21:30

Intro to Microsoft SharePoint LIVE ONLINE 05/12/2026
2026-05-12 13:30 - 15:30

KLS: Coaching for Peak Performance LIVE ONLINE 05/13/2026
2026-05-13 09:00 - 11:00
Coaching is an integral part of success at all levels of management. As a supervisor, you are only as good as your people and the work they produce. Within today’s competitive and results-focused environments, coaching is a highly visible and positive demonstration of your commitment to ongoing personal development and performance improvement.

HRE: Employee Communications for HR Professionals LIVE ONLINE 05/13/2026
2026-05-13 13:30 - 15:30
This course offers a review of the role of Human Resources in communicating with employees. It will examine best practices, issues & challenges that persons in human resources deal with on a day-to-day basis when communicating with employees.

Assertive Communication Skills Peoria - 05/14/2026 - CANCELLED
2026-05-14 13:30 - 21:30
To be successful in today’s challenging workplace, you must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently. This course teaches key communication skills that helps you speak, write, and behave in an assertive way. In addition, the course provides key strategies for overcoming mental roadblocks while building confidence, and gives you relationship strategies that build rapport and help overcome personality conflicts. For more information or to register, go to https://aaimea.org/courses/assertive-communication-skills/

Copilot Basics & AI Fundamentals – HR Edition - 05/14/2026
2026-05-14 13:00 - 15:00
This 2-hour training session is the perfect starting point for anyone curious about Microsoft’s new AI assistant, especially HR professionals looking to streamline their workflows.

You’ll discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot can become your everyday productivity partner.

Intro to Microsoft Teams LIVE ONLINE 05/19/2026 - CANCELLED
2026-05-19 14:30 - 16:30

MS Excel Level 3 LIVE ONLINE 05/20/2026
2026-05-20 08:00 - 15:00
This Excel course is a day of finding ways to save time and energy digging into your data to get the desired result. You will be introduced to various functions that will quickly condense substantial amounts of data through a Pivot Table, pull out specific data through VLOOKUPs, conditional and logical functions, and save time through macros, data validation, and more. This class is a segue into our more focused courses for individual advanced Excel topics.

Negotiating Skills - ST. LOUIS 05/20/2026 - CANCELLED
2026-05-20 13:30 - 21:30
Negotiation is the process by which you resolve the differences between parties in a manner that provides a positive outcome for all groups, and leaves everyone looking forward to working together again. Negotiating effectively and at the appropriate time are keys to driving results. This course covers processes and skills for preparing and leading successful negotiations that result in mutually beneficial commitments and contribute to the development and maintenance of long-term relationships. For more information or to register, go to https://aaimea.org/courses/negotiating-skills/

Selling With Confidence: Value vs ROI LIVE ONLINE 05/20/2026
2026-05-20 09:30 - 11:30
The way that consumers and businesses buy has changed drastically over the past few years. Gone are the days of high-pressure techniques, get-it-right-now deals or complex ROI calculations. Working with today’s more informed buyer requires a bit more finesse. Selling on value and highlighting the benefits has never been more important.

At the end of this course you will be able to:
– Understand the benefits of selling on value vs ROI
– Align your sales process to the modern customer journey
– Create benefit based statements for any solution/product/service
– Verbally and visually present value during a pitch

Topics that will be covered:
– Defining and Redefining Value vs ROI
– Buyer’s Motivating Factors
– The Modern Customer Journey
– Finding the Customer Centric Benefits
– Giving a Value Based Recommendation

Who Should Enroll in this Course:
– Individuals with professional sales experience (inside or outside, B2B or B2C)
– Professionals who have been trained in a value based or consultative sales process
– Salespeople aiming to transition away from a transactional selling approach

Preparation: Current sales process self-assessment provided with registration.

Competencies: Sales Recommendations
Method: Group-Live
Course Level: Intermediate
Duration: Half Day in Person, 2 hours Live-Online

Copilot Basics & AI Fundamentals - 05/20/2026
2026-05-20 13:00 - 15:00
Copilot Basics & AI Fundamentals is the perfect starting point for anyone curious about Microsoft’s new AI assistant. In this focused 2-hour class training session, you’ll discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot can become your everyday productivity partner. We’ll demystify what Copilot is and show you how it works within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
Watch live demos of Copilot drafting documents, analyzing spreadsheets, and summarizing emails!

Building Influence & Credibility 05/21/2026 - CANCELLED
2026-05-21 13:30 - 17:00
The ability to work with and influence others is a key workplace skill. This program provides in-depth training on the sound use of tactics to influence work behavior and attitudes in an upward, lateral and downward direction. You will identify your preferred approach and learn how to flex your style according to the context and desired outcomes. For more information or to register, go to https://aaimea.org/courses/building-influence-credibility/

Microsoft Excel Level 1 LIVE ONLINE 05/21/2026
2026-05-21 10:00 - 17:00
This course will familiarize students with Excel, helping them to learn how to create, entering and editing text, values, and formulas and how to save workbooks. They will learn to move and copy data and formulas, and work with ranges (contiguous versus non-contiguous), rows, and columns. Students will also learn to use simple functions and easily apply formatting techniques to worksheet data. They will review workbooks for spelling errors, modify page setup, and print professional looking worksheets.

Supervisor's Toolbox ST. LOUIS - May 2026
2026-05-22 08:30 - 2026-06-05 16:30
As a supervisor, you are only as good as your people and the work they produce. This series course is designed to provide critical management skills to perform duties and responsibilities required of a management member. Participants will be able to develop a clear understanding of their job responsibilities as a supervisor, gain insight into their leadership style, and understand the basic skills needed to be an effective supervisor. For more information or to register, go to https://aaimea.org/courses/supervisor-essentials/

Principles of Leadership ST. LOUIS - May 2026
2026-05-22 08:30 - 2026-06-26 16:30
Making the jump from individual contributor to manager is one of the toughest career challenges an employee can face; it requires a new mindset and new skills. New managers no longer focus only on their personal workload – they need to know how to lead their teams to maximum productivity.

Intro to Microsoft Word LIVE ONLINE 05/26/2026
2026-05-26 09:30 - 11:30

Leadership for Leads ST. LOUIS - May 2026 - CANCELLED
2026-05-27 13:30 - 2026-06-17 17:00
Making the transition from team member to team lead can be challenging. This course helps you assess and develop your leadership skills, discover practical and proven ways to effectively communicate, motivate and train others, and increase your personal effectiveness and professional reputation. As a work lead, your team’s success is your success. For more information or to register, go to https://aaimea.org/courses/leadership-for-leads/

Motivational Skills for Leaders ST. LOUIS 05/27/2026 - Cancelled
2026-05-27 18:00 - 21:30
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/

Time Management LIVE ONLINE 05/28/2026
2026-05-28 09:00 - 11:00
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 a Time Management Plan that makes sense for their schedules and objectives.

KLS: Delegating & Empowering Others LIVE ONLINE 05/28/2026
2026-05-28 09:30 - 11:30
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 organization.

The idea of delegation is certainly nothing new. It’s something effective supervisors and managers do well. This training provides guidelines that help all leaders learn how to do it right.

Supervisor's Toolbox FLORIDA - June 2026
2026-06-02 07:30 - 2026-06-16 15:30

Communicate with Clarity ST. LOUIS 06/02/2026
2026-06-02 08:30 - 12:00
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 messages that readers will remember. For more information or to register, go to https://aaimea.org/courses/effective-writing-skills/

HRE: HR Role & Regulatory Compliance Fundamentals LIVE ONLINE CANCELLED
2026-06-02 14:00 - 16:00
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.

Strategic HR: Organizational Strategy & Planning LIVE ONLINE 06/02/2026
2026-06-02 09:30 - 11:30
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 of the direction the company. Understanding HR’s role in Organizational strategy is key to aligning C-suite goals with the workforce.
At the end of this class, the participants will be able to:
• Understand the importance of organizational and strategic planning
• Analyze internal and external business environments
• Understand the role of mission, vision, and values
• Formulate and implement corporate business and functional level strategies
• Understand HR’s role in strategic planning

Preventing Procrastination LIVE ONLINE 06/02/2026
2026-06-02 13:30 - 15:30
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 help prevent procrastination by helping develop solid action plans and move you off the hamster wheel of frustration and inefficiency.

Attendees will learn:

5 Steps to creating a truly effective To-Do List
The breakthrough process that will banish your procrastination habits
How to uncover the keys to actually getting your To-Do’s accomplished

Join us Live Online to learn how to stop just rewriting your to-do list and how to actually prevent procrastination from being more productive.

KLS: Influencing Positive Change LIVE ONLINE 06/03/2026
2026-06-03 09:00 - 11:00
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 organization. It is important that you know the strategies and techniques that can reduce resistance to change and increase the chances of success for you and your team.
