About us

Discover the team behind the name and find out what we
do and what we stand for

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About the Smart School

We are a small, friendly and caring coaching school with a big passion for creating exceptional coaches and NLP practitioners who use their skills to make a difference.

We deliver a small but powerful set of accredited coaching courses and NLP Hypnothrapy programmes that offer the latest approaches to coaching and NLP therapy that simply cannot be found elsewhere.

Our programmes are not based on simple dogma and assumptions which were laid down at the start of the coaching profession.  Instead, they have been indivudally developed on what really works for the client group.  So whether that's in how we teach cognitive behavioural coaching to life coaches, group work in schools for those youth coaches or online marketing skills for small business coaches, each programme is the right fit for the needs of coach and client.

And that’s why all of our programmes have been developed exclusively by the very people who train them – experts in their specific fields rather then generic coaches.  Our course heads are absolutely passionate about what they do as coaches or therapists and love sharing the power of this work with their coaching students.

The Smart School is a unique kind of coaching school.  One where you are part of an informal community yet can expect the very highest quality training and support.  Where each course is utterly unique to the school and has received the pinnacle of professional coaching recognition.  And where learning coaching or NLP becomes part of a wider journey to knowing yourself, developing greater confidence, addressing your own patterns and ultimately becoming the person you want to be with the future you want to have.

Whether you want to become a life coach or corporate coach facilitating self-discovery and change, an NLP therapist working on people’s deepest issues, a youth coach working with young people in schools and the community or a small business coach helping local business owners succeed, we have a detailed programme  of training and support that gives you all the skills you need.

Each of our programmes is highly accredited and each is unique, often with approaches and skills that simply can’t be found outside of the school.

In the end, what drives us is helping you to use your new skills to create real change.  Change in your life and change in the lives of those you coach and work with.  We see this change in our students every day at the school and it’s the quality that makes everything count.


 

In their own words

Click here to see Smart School trained coaches describe their journey through the school and what it has done for them.

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Why are we called the Smart School?

SMART, of course, is the classic goal setting tool that most coaches know and when Nick created the school he wanted the people who joined it to know exactly what they could expect but also that they would create their own clear picture of the change it would bring about for them. And what better way to start than with SMART outcomes?

Over time however the school has developed a unique, innovative approach which captures the very essence of smart thinking. We don’t just repeat old methods, we think about every aspect of what we do to bring a fresh, intelligent approach to our training and our programmes.

Of course, ask any of our coaches and they would add that they made the smart choice when they chose our coaching school to take their journey!

Smart School values

At the Smart School, we believe there are certain values that are paramount for us to feel we're meeting our reason for being. It's easy for this kind of values list to be just some piece of paper left to get dusty in a drawer. But for us these values are very real.

Our key value is in providing training that actually makes a difference. We're simply not interested in training for the sake of training. That's why all our courses are over an extended period of time with real-life practice and supervision. Short courses are fine as introductions but in most cases they will soon be forgotten. We want our training to last.

This leads to other values such as our belief in the importance of hands-on training with small groups so we can really understand your needs; creating a warm, welcoming atmosphere where people feel a sense of belonging and finally constantly updating our training to keep up to date with devlopments. Our values feed into all aspects of what we do.

Our aim for our coaches

In some ways, you could say that we don't have aims for our coaches. Instead, it's the coaches who have the aims. Our aim is to help them achieve them.

And so whether that's creating a coaching business and changing their life entirely or simply developing coaching skills which work in their workplace then we aim to make sure these outcomes are met.

That's why the supervision and face-to-face support is so important. It allows us to tailor what each coach gets to ensure they can see how to move forward in the direction they want to go in.