Investing in a closed cohort training model allows all businesses to elevate their organisation’s baseline skill set while ensuring consistency, alignment, and immediate application in the workplace.
By training employees from the same organisation using AIM’s standard courseware, businesses create a shared language and a cohesive approach, which fosters stronger collaboration and facilitates the effective implementation of new skills and behaviours.
As a result, businesses can expect to see faster outcomes, improved engagement, and sustained long-term improvements in key areas such as leadership, communication, project management, and overall operational performance.
Why invest in a closed cohort?
The Benefits of Closed Cohorts
For Business:
Closed cohorts offer a powerful way to deliver consistent, high-quality training aligned with company goals and best practices. This approach ensures every employee acquires the same knowledge and skills, reducing performance gaps and driving better outcomes while fostering a more cohesive work environment.
By training alongside colleagues, employees can immediately apply new skills to their roles, boosting productivity and delivering tangible business results. This also enhances team alignment, improving communication and collaboration, while addressing company-specific challenges in a closed environment. With flexible delivery options — on-site, virtually, or on-campus — programs can be tailored to meet a business’s unique needs and timings.
Additionally, closed cohorts provide a cost-effective alternative, reducing travel expenses and minimising disruption. By investing in this tailored training, companies not only enhance employee engagement and retention but also demonstrate a strong commitment to their workforce’s growth and success.
For Individuals:
Closed cohorts offer employees a highly relevant and practical learning experience, with course content grounded in real-life business scenarios. This approach ensures participants can immediately apply their newly acquired skills and learnings in the workplace, making the training more effective and impactful.
As participants train alongside colleagues facing similar challenges, the opportunity for collaboration and peer discussions greatly enhances learning. This shared experience not only strengthens knowledge retention but also facilitates the seamless implementation of new skills, creating a more cohesive and effective team.
Additionally, closed cohorts build stronger professional relationships and enhance collaboration by offering a shared language and approach to a specific challenge or subject area. Without the distractions of mixed industry discussions, participants can focus on team-specific strategies, which boosts morale, motivation, and overall performance.
Why AIM?
Since 1941, the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) has been a leader in empowering individuals and organisations to thrive in an ever-changing landscape.
With a strong commitment to providing innovative, industry-relevant education, AIM has supported Australia’s workforce through a diverse range of Short Courses, Qualifications, and Higher Education programs. As workforce needs continue to evolve, AIM continually updates its educational offerings to ensure they equip individuals with transferable skills that can be immediately applied in the workplace.
AIM trains over 43,000 students annually across six campuses and partners with more than 4,000 companies to develop customised training solutions that address specific business needs.
By delivering learning experiences that are highly relevant to the challenges faced by today’s professionals, AIM’s programs are designed to align with the unique motivations of adult learners, empowering them to expand their expertise and foster ongoing personal and professional development.
AIM Facilitators
AIM’s learning coordinators ensure a seamless delivery of your solution and take care of your required logistics, whether that be setting up participants in our learning management platform or securing venues and organising program-related communications.
For face-to-face, virtual, and blended solutions, we work with you to ensure that your program is delivered by the most experienced and qualified facilitator, while also considering your organisation’s culture and ensuring the best facilitator fit with your audience. Our facilitators are experts in helping people move from theory to action, using their own lived experiences to bring your learning to life.
