Training Programs
We offer a variety of courses to enhance your team’s Asset Management knowledge and to prepare you for the journey to alignment with best practice. Recognizing that each organization is at a different stage on its journey, our courses are available in alternative formats.
For:
- Quick awareness sessions and general introduction to concepts
- Great as a lunch n’ learn session
- Topics can be tailored to the organization’s needs and selected from a menu covering the 39 subject areas of asset management
For:
- Deeper dives into asset management concepts
- Arranged into a sequence of modules of 1-3 hours each
- Each learning module concludes with an opportunity for participants to apply the theoretical principles to practice. Participants complete guided exercises, both group and individual, which reinforce the module’s content into real-world applications
For:
- Fully immersed sessions expanding on the content in the two-day course but with additional modules and exercises
- Practice questions for the exam and preparation to sit the exam
Courses can be shortened or lengthened to suit budget and staff availability
Our Approach
We have developed two interconnected brands to help package the educational messages and facilitate the transfer of knowledge in a meaningful and engaging way for adult learners.
Infographics with multiple panels of insight
Videos of average 3 minutes length
Our Methodology
At AIM, we follow a 5 step process for asset management training, coaching and workshop facilitation. We call it our 5-E Strategy
Engage
Why: To attract someone’s interest or attention.
How: We do this by presenting something new, something vivid, something striking.
Entertain
Why: In order to hold someone’s attention, they may need to be entertained. We want them focused on the path to becoming invested.
How: We do this by telling stories; by going on adventures.
Educate
Why: To give information; to teach someone how to do something. To provide instruction.
How: We do this by organizing information in a meaningful way so that it can be easily shared and assimilated. Checklists are one such example of a teaching tool. The use of metaphors is another great tool for educating people.
Enlighten
Why: To give someone greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation. To reveal and grasp the underlying patterns in things. This is the penultimate step and if we are able to get to this point then we are making great progress.
How: We need to give away some of our knowledge. We need to share with others.
Empower
Why: To give someone the authority or power to do something themselves. To make someone stronger and more confident.
How: We do this by sharing concepts, tools and techniques to help organizations make value-based, evidence-based, risk-based decisions. This is reinforced through practical exercises that accompany each training module.
Adult Learning Techniques
Each learning module consists of slides developed to provide instruction on key asset management terms, concepts and principles. The content introduces theoretical principles and highlights real-world examples through the use of engaging visuals designed for adult learners. Slides incorporate animation, photographs, and video clips in order to better convey and reinforce key concepts.
Our training program is guided by adult learning principles.
Testimonials and Case Studies
“Thank you for the training you put on for us last week. It was most informative.“
G. Svisdahl
“Thank you all for an exceptional two days of education. The exit surveys indicated a high level of satisfaction.“
R. Williams
See our case studies on how training has been successfully
delivered for other organizations.
City of Burnaby | District of West Vancouver