This range of short courses covers all the essentials, whether you're managing a small team, leading a large organisation, or looking to gain a deeper understanding of yourself as a leader. With targeted insights and practical tools, these courses will help you enhance your leadership skills and foster stronger, more effective teams.
Leadership Readiness is AIM WA’s signature residential program for professionals stepping into people leadership. Formally known as the Emerging Leaders Program, it is designed to support participants mentally, emotionally and practically during their transition. For organisations, it offers a stronger way to support new leaders at a critical point in their development.
Senior leaders do not need to become technical experts in AI, but they do need to understand what it can do, where it may create risk and how to guide its use across their organisation.
You will explore AI in a business context, including common applications, ethical considerations, privacy, accountability and workforce impacts.
The mini MBA course provides the opportunity to develop a comprehensive business skill set in a targeted, efficient, and practical setting. Complete in just six weeks (2026 intake) through 90-minute online sessions, one day per week.
Balance opposing demands to create clarity and adaptability
This course helps you navigate modern leadership challenges with confidence and integrity. You’ll learn frameworks to flex your approach, strengthen your emotional adaptability and lead with purpose in contexts that demand both decisiveness and empathy.
Change is a constant in every organisation, but leading it well takes skill and self-awareness. This practical course helps you plan, communicate and guide change with purpose.
You will learn how to build understanding, engage your team and turn transition into progress.
Managers must play an active role in identifying and responding to specific opportunities to improve the performance of their employees. This course will help you to develop the coaching skills to support and sustain improved performance in others.
Every day you make decisions based on the information and ideas around you. This course helps you slow down, think more clearly and make choices with confidence.
You’ll learn how to question assumptions, analyse information and use practical tools that bring clarity to complex problems.
Good managers bring out the best in their people. This course helps you understand what motivates others, build stronger relationships and handle challenges with confidence.
You will learn practical ways to communicate, delegate and develop your team so everyone can perform at their best.
At different points in life, we all reach moments that call for reflection and renewal. Empower helps you pause, take stock and find new direction with confidence.
You’ll reconnect with what matters most, uncover your strengths and build the mindset to move forward with clarity, purpose and a stronger sense of balance.
Stories help people connect, understand and remember what matters. This course shows you how to use storytelling as a leadership skill to inspire, influence and engage your team.
You will learn how to craft meaningful stories that build trust, strengthen communication and bring your messages to life.
Unlock value through a practical approach to generating new ideas
This course helps you understand what innovation really means in the workplace and how its benefits can be harnessed to improve services, outcomes and ways of working.
Artificial intelligence is transforming how we work, create and make decisions. This hands-on course helps you understand AI in clear, simple terms and shows you how to use tools like ChatGPT safely and effectively.
You will learn how to apply AI to everyday tasks, boost productivity and make confident, informed choices about its use in your organisation.
Use Microsoft Copilot Chat to build practical AI skills for everyday workplace writing, planning, summarising and problem solving.
This course helps non-technical professionals use chat-based AI with confidence, with a focus on clear prompts, careful review, privacy awareness and responsible workplace judgement.
Leadership is about more than managing people. It is about how your actions inspire trust and shape the experience of those you lead.
This course helps you understand how others see your leadership, build on your strengths and develop the confidence to lead with authenticity and purpose.
Strong leadership begins with knowing yourself. This course gives you the space to reflect on your values, strengths and impact so you can lead with greater confidence and direction.
You will build the awareness and tools to lead with authenticity, stay grounded under pressure and create positive influence across your team and organisation.
Great leadership is not about being the loudest voice in the room. This course helps you recognise and use the natural strengths of introversion to lead with authenticity and confidence.
You will learn how to connect with others, influence effectively and thrive as a quiet leader in any environment.
Leadership Readiness is AIM WA’s signature residential program for professionals stepping into people leadership. Formally known as the Emerging Leaders Program, it is designed to support participants mentally, emotionally and practically during their transition. For organisations, it offers a stronger way to support new leaders at a critical point in their development.
Contemporary leaders need to be clear about whether they are providing the type of leadership that is required. They are purpose driven, curious and work to improve the way they influence their teams through their actions and communications. This course runs in select regional locations.
The theory of systemic thinking, the idea that we should view problems as part of a larger, interconnected puzzle rather than as isolated incidents, is well established.
What does it mean to lead, even without a title? This course helps you develop the confidence and skills to influence, contribute and make an impact from any position.
You will learn how to lead by example, build credibility and inspire others through collaboration and initiative.
Many of today’s projects depend on people who don’t report directly to you. This course helps you master the art of leading through influence.
You will discover how to create shared goals, strengthen trust and guide collaboration to deliver results together.
Stepping up to lead people who were once your peers can be both exciting and challenging. This course helps you make that transition with confidence, maintaining respect and relationships while building credibility in your new role.
You will learn how to set clear boundaries, lead with fairness and create a team culture built on trust and openness.
Strong leadership means making informed decisions in the face of uncertainty. This course gives you the tools to identify, assess and manage risk with confidence.
You will learn how to apply practical frameworks, improve decision making and contribute to safer, more resilient operations in your organisation.
This personal leadership course offers the ideal opportunity for leaders who want to enhance their understanding of themselves, develop their personal brand and capabilities and advance their leadership development journey. This course runs in select regional locations.
Becoming a manager changes how you create impact. Success depends less on personal output and more on how well you set expectations, communicate priorities, support others and hold people accountable.
You will explore the foundations of effective management through practical frameworks, realistic workplace scenarios and guided reflection.
Moving into general management requires a shift in thinking. This program helps you step back from day-to-day operations to see the bigger picture.
You will explore strategy, leadership, finance and organisational change, building the insight and confidence to lead with clarity and direction across your business.
Designed by and for women who lead, this program helps you build on your strengths, navigate challenges and lead with renewed confidence.
You will explore what authentic influence looks like today, supported by a community of peers who share your commitment to meaningful leadership.
This qualification reflects the role of individuals working as developing and emerging leaders and managers in a range of enterprise and industry contexts. As well as assuming responsibility for their own performance, individuals at this level provide leadership, guidance and support to others. They also have some responsibility for organising and monitoring the output of their team.
This qualification reflects the role of leaders who are involved in the effective management of individuals, and teams, to achieve desired outcomes. The qualification covers the understanding of the planning, organising, implementing and monitoring of your own workload, and the workload of others.
This qualification addresses the strategic level leadership and management competencies required by those who have responsibilities for contributing to and implementing those activities which are directly linked to the strategic intent of an organisation.
Participants who enrol in this qualification typically use a broad range of cognitive, communication and interpersonal skills to analyse and respond to complex problems. Of equal importance is the ability to think creatively to bring innovative ideas to meet the changing needs of the customer.
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