Our philosophy is that mentoring is an integral function of leadership. Effective leadership is about empowering people, enhancing their competence, giving them responsibility and keeping them accountable for achieving the outcomes. Essentially leadership means mentoring people by creating an environment in which an individual can harness his/her own uniqueness and align him/herself with organisational objectives.

In response to the leadership challenges facing South Africa, AIM focuses its expertise in the following main areas:

• Individual/Executive Coaching
• Mentor Training
• Organisational Leadership Development
• Individual and Team Assessments

Using Leadership Development Programmes and Individual Change Models developed and refined over the last 15 years of research and application AIM offers its clients access to its services through three gateways:

• Organisational Development Programmes
• Individual Development Programmes
• Client-specific Services

AIM’s Organisational Development Programmes are based on the point of view that an understanding of the individual’s uniqueness and cultivating it in the team and organisational context, inevitably increase organisational effectiveness. Leaders/managers need to grow in order for their organisations to flourish. These programmes focus on developing executives, managers and teams.

In AIM’s Individual Development Programmes clients are coached to cultivate a coherent self-awareness and guided to identify how to optimise returns for themselves and, by association, for their organisations through an intensive process of individual mentoring. Individuals are given a new set of tools to interpret their context and learn to use methods for applying their own vision in ways that will enhance their abilities to grow as individuals.

AIM also offers customized programmes to clients which are electronically supported on this website. The Client Services section supports participants in particular programmes by providing feedback and an FAQ section.

AIM has facilitated processes focussing on:

• Individual Executive Mentoring
• Personal Strategic Development
• Team Development
• Change Management
• Values Integration Process
• Leadership and Managerial Development
• Organisational Mentor Training
• Psychometric and Managerial Assessment

These processes have been developed for and facilitated in the public, banking, mining, accounting and construction sectors. The following organisations have been clients of AIM and its associates:

• The South African Police Services
• Concor
• SAP
• Mutual & Federal
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers
• Ernst & Young
• Sizwe Ntsaluba
• South African Institute for Chartered Accountants (SAICA)
• AngloPlatinum
• BOE
• ABSA e-channels
• Radio Pulpil