Microsoft Excel Level 1 LIVE ONLINE 10/06/2026
2026-10-06 08:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | AAIM St. Louis Office, 12851 Manchester Rd., Suite 150, St. Louis, MO, 63131, United States
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.

Beyond Supervisor Essentials ST. LOUIS - October 2026
2026-10-07 08:30 - 2026-10-21 16:30
You’ve got the basics of supervising down. The next step is to refine your skills and add new ones to move up to being an exceptional Supervisor. This 3-Day series course is designed to provide those next level management skills for Supervisors who have been through AAIM’s Supervisor Essentials course. Participants will be exposed to skills beyond basic responsibilities of a supervisor. This next step in AAIM’s Supervisor training curriculum explores Delegation Skills, Dealing with Conflict, Leading Change, Delivering Performance Appraisals, Interviewing Skills, and Building Teamwork.

Strategic HR: Performance Management LIVE ONLINE 09/30/2026
2026-10-07 09:00 - 11:00
HR Strategy: Performance Management
Effective organizations are continually assessing and evaluating the productivity of their employees. By doing so, HR can assist in improving and maximizing the overall organization’s effectiveness. Performance Management is most strategic and effective when it involves every person in the organization with HR driving the processes. This class will help HR professionals understand how to develop a strategy to measure performance and implement best practices to drive it throughout their organization.
At the end of this class, participant will be able to:
• Explain why performance management is important
• Relate individual performance to organization performance.
• Identify a variety of performance appraisal methods
• Understand and Recognize common issues associated with performance appraisals
• Develop effective performance management systems and processes
• Understand HR’s role in performance management

KLS: Performance Management & Delivering Appraisals LIVE ONLINE 10/07/2026
2026-10-07 13:00 - 15:00
Performance appraisals can be an effective part of a performance management system, which includes planning, coaching, and evaluation. How do you feel about performance appraisals? Some people look forward to them; others dread them. Regardless of how you feel about them as a manager, conducting performance appraisals is one of the most important opportunities you will have to help your employees, yourself, and your organization.

Leadership for Leads ST. LOUIS - October 2026
2026-10-08 08:30 - 2026-10-29 12:00
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/

HRE: The Employment Process LIVE ONLINE 10/08/2026
2026-10-08 09:30 - 11:30
This course offers a review of the Employment Process within organizations and examines the issues & challenges that persons in human resources deal with on a day-to-day basis.

Copilot for Documents and Data - 10/08/2026
2026-10-08 13:00 - 15:00
If you’re looking for practical ways to work more efficiently in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, this 2-hour class introduces how Microsoft 365 Copilot can help streamline your workflow. You’ll learn how to use Copilot as a writing assistant in Word, a data analyst in Excel, and a slide designer in PowerPoint.

Mastering Performance Appraisals 10/08/2026
2026-10-08 13:00 - 16:30
Course Description:
Performance appraisals often evoke mixed feelings—some managers anticipate them, while others feel a sense of dread. Regardless of your stance, these reviews are pivotal moments to drive employee growth, enhance team performance, and bolster organizational success.

In this course, you’ll learn how to transform performance reviews from a necessary task into a powerful tool for development. By the end of this session, you will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to conduct appraisals that truly make a difference.

Key Takeaways:

Understand the Role of Appraisals: Recognize the significance of appraisals as a formal coaching tool and their impact on overall performance management.
Best Practices for Effective Appraisals: Learn specific practices that enhance the effectiveness of appraisals and identify common pitfalls to avoid.
Comprehensive Preparation: Gain the ability to thoroughly prepare and plan for appraisals, ensuring a structured and efficient process.
Clear and Specific Feedback: Develop the skill to provide precise, constructive written comments that guide and inspire employees.
Goal Setting: Learn how to formulate realistic and motivating performance goals that align with organizational objectives.
Conducting Productive Discussions: Acquire techniques for leading appraisal discussions that are both productive and engaging, even when addressing difficult topics.

3-Step Time Management for Remote Workers LIVE ONLINE 10/08/2026
2026-10-08 13:30 - 15:30

Compliance Communication Support with ChatGPT LIVE ONLINE 10/09/2026
2026-10-09 09:30 - 11:30

Computer Basics LIVE ONLINE 10/13/2026
2026-10-13 08:00 - 15:00
This class should be a prerequisite for all classes as students will learn how to organize files and folders, search for items on their computers, and use and personalize Windows. Students will also learn how to browse the Web and gain an understanding of viruses and malware.

Copilot for Communication and Collaboration - 10/13/2026
2026-10-13 09:30 - 11:30
Copilot for Communication and Collaboration: Ready to work smarter and faster with your inbox and meetings? Join this focused 2-hour class and discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot in Outlook and Teams can help you manage emails, meetings, and chats with ease. Stop spending hours sorting through email threads and taking notes—Copilot effortlessly summarizes conversations, drafts responses, and highlights key points from meetings, so you don’t have to watch recordings or jot down notes yourself.

KLS: Employment Law for Supervisors LIVE ONLINE 10/14/2026
2026-10-14 13:00 - 15:00
Every day supervisors deal with employment situations that, if not handled responsibly and legally, can result in serious consequences, including penalties or lawsuits. Regardless of your experience as a supervisor, you can always benefit from learning more, or refreshing your memory, about essential employment law.

HRE: Unemployment, Workers' Comp & Claims Management LIVE ONLINE 10/15/2026
2026-10-15 09:30 - 11:30
This course offers a review of the role of HR as the administrator of Unemployment, Worker’s Compensation and other claims. It will examine Federal Laws & the requirements Human Resource departments must follow regarding these benefits and claims.

High Performance Coaching ST. LOUIS 10/15/2026
2026-10-15 13:00 - 16:30
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.

At the end of this course you will be able to:

Define effective coaching
Identify coachable moments and targets
Follow a structured approach to coaching
Communicate clear performance expectations
Match your coaching style to the employee’s development needs
Provide feedback in a positive and constructive way
Effectively address and discuss performance issues
Formulate employee coaching & development plans

Anti-Harassment in the Workplace LIVE ONLINE 10/15/2026
2026-10-15 13:30 - 15:30
Our interactions with each other in the workplace should be respectful and professional. This program will help to ensure that all managers and employees know how to conduct themselves in a manner that creates and maintains a respectful harassment-free and discriminatory-free work environment.

Exploring Emotional Intelligence ST. LOUIS 10/16/2026
2026-10-16 08:30 - 12:00
Emotional Intelligence or EI is the ability to recognize your emotions, understand them, and see how they affect those around you. Having high emotional intelligence also means you understand other people’s emotions. This allows you to manage your relationships better and avoid potential conflicts. In this course, we will explore tactics to understand moods & emotions, understand how to use emotions to facilitate thought, as well as understand how to recognize and regulate emotions in yourself and in others to improve your own EI. This course is designed to help individual contributors, supervisors and team leaders alike improve their ability to work effectively with others.

Effective Employee Coaching and Development with ChatGPT 10/16/2026
2026-10-16 09:30 - 11:30

Copilot Next Level: Copilot Customization and Agents - 10/20/2026
2026-10-20 09:30 - 11:30
Unlock the full potential of Copilot by learning advanced customization and agentic AI features in this focused 2-hour course. Discover how to tailor Copilot to match your personal work style and communication preferences, making it an even more effective partner in your daily tasks. Through interactive demonstrations and hands-on activities, you’ll learn how to adjust Copilot’s settings and responses, so it works seamlessly with you and adapts to your unique workflow.

KLS: Foundations of Effective Leadership LIVE ONLINE 10/20/2026
2026-10-20 13:00 - 15:00
In this program we will introduce you to the essential skills you need to be successful in your role.

Effective Email Management LIVE ONLINE 10/20/2026
2026-10-20 13:30 - 15:30
Effectively managing your email inbox can be key time management and increased productivity. The most effective email users are seen as more reliable and accessible just by following a few best practices that prevent email from overwhelming them. During this course, attendees will learn the three strategies to pull you off the hamster wheel of email ineffectiveness. This 2 hour class will help you make your email work for you and assist in being more productive and organized.

Attendees will learn the secrets of:

Email folders – Are they helpful or harmful?
Creating filters to save hours of time each week
Implementing ways to be more productive with time spent processing email

Join us Live Online to learn how to prevent your email from becoming overwhelming and assist you in getting more done.

HRE: Employee Recordkeeping, Reports & Personnel Files LIVE ONLINE 10/21/2026
2026-10-21 09:30 - 11:30
Participants will learn an introduction to postings, recordkeeping and retention, immigration law and access to personnel files. This session will serve as a guide for participants as well as reference materials when situations arise that are not part of the normal operations with the business.

Microsoft Excel Level 1 LIVE ONLINE 10/22/2026
2026-10-22 10:00 - 17:00

Intro to Microsoft Excel LIVE ONLINE 10/22/2026
2026-10-22 13:30 - 15:30

Data-Driven Business Cases with ChatGPT LIVE ONLINE 10/23/2026
2026-10-23 09:30 - 11:30

Copilot for Project Management - 10/27/2026
2026-10-27 09:30 - 11:30
Experience a new era of project management with Copilot + Microsoft Planner. In this innovative training session, you’ll discover how Microsoft Planner not only helps organize group tasks and bring project teams together but also becomes more powerful with integrated AI capabilities. With Copilot acting as an intelligent assistant, it’s like adding an expert team member who can tackle research, brainstorming, and creative tasks on your behalf—while you supervise, provide feedback, and fine-tune results to meet your project’s needs.

Supervisor's Toolbox ST. LOUIS - October 2026
2026-10-28 08:30 - 2026-11-11 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 - October 2026
2026-10-28 08:30 - 2026-12-09 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.

KLS: Communicating Effectively as a Leader LIVE ONLINE 10/28/2026
2026-10-28 13:00 - 15:00
Communication is the most powerful tool a leader has to effectively manage and guide performance that creates results. Like any skill, we can all get better at delivering our messages and understanding others. In this session, we will focus on building the skills that will make you a more powerful and persuasive communicator.

HRE: Training & Organizational Development for HR LIVE ONLINE 10/29/2026
2026-10-29 09:30 - 11:30
This course offers a review of the role of HR Manager and Training within the organization. It will examine Training & Organization Development goals and practices in the success of a company.
