Diploma in Coaching
Excellence

Discover our flagship coaching course delivering a
transformational, integrative approach ideally suited
to life coaching and executive coaching

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Diploma in Coaching Excellence

Overview

The Diploma in Coaching Excellence is our core programme for creating transformational coaches.

This programme is ideal for you if any of the following apply:

  • You want to become a life coach working on a client’s whole life issues
  • You want to become an executive coach working on the human being at the
    centre of the executive role
  • You want to use coaching in a substantial way in your workplace

The programme gives you all the skills and tools you need to harness the power of non-advisory, person-centred coaching.

Unlike most coaching courses which focus only on a client's actions – the GROW model is the usual suspect here – our programme gives you the skill, tools and confidence to work transformationally.

This means you’ll work not only on what people do but how they feel, think, perceive, react and relate to themselves, others and the world more generally.  In other words, you work with the client at the level of identity not just behaviour.

This is a far more powerful style of coaching which leads to a more enduring form of change that ripples through your client's life.

To deliver this approach, the programme integrates a range of modern coaching styles including:

  • Cognitive Behavioural Coaching
  • Transactional Analysis Coaching
  • NLP Coaching
  • Behavioural Coaching
  • Person-Centred Coaching

Over the course of around six months you’ll develop the full range of skills to work at an advanced level with your clients and become a truly trasnformational coach.

To see how we help you achieve this, take a look through the detail of the course by clicking on the tabs to the left.

Spring Into Life Offer
Free Coaching Discovery Day
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Watch a course overview video

Watch a short video on our Diploma in Coaching Excellence course and get a detailed picture of the course, the structure, investment and benefits.

This is the perfect option if you don’t have much time to attend one of our seminars but want to get to know more about our course.


Free Discovery Day

Attend a free Discovery Day and find out what coaching is, how it's changed, how you can blend it with your existing skills and how you can use coaching to create a business or shape your career.

You will also find out everything you need to know about our Diploma in Coaching Excellence and how you can train with us.

Discovery Days run from 10.30am until 4.30pm in central London. It's an open, honest exploratory day in which you can get all your questions answered.

If you think coaching is for you but you need to know a bit more about it then the Discover Day an ideal place to find out. Likewise, if you know for sure that coaching is for you but you want to know if the Smart School is the right place to train, this is an ideal opportunity to get to know us.

Go ahead and reserve your place now.


Book a personal consultation

This is ideal if you are already familiar with coaching and don’t need an introduction to it. Instead you want to find out how it would work for YOU and how our course is different from others.

The personal consultation option is all about YOU and how the course would work for you individually.

We can explore what you want to do with coaching, who you want coach, how you can build a business in that area or how it would fit in to your workplace.

This can be by phone or face-to-face in Victoria, London and would normally be with the founder of the school.


Check dates and book your course now

This option is for you if you know you the Smart School is the right place to train and you know what course you want to take.

You can go ahead and select your start date and pay your deposit or the full course fee.

Select this option to go through the booking page.


Smart School Satisfaction Guarantee

Our Satisfaction Guarantee means that if you join the course and decide after the first weekend that it's not for you, then we will refund your fee minus the non-refundable deposit of £500.

This means you can join our course with confidence and security.

Master Coach Special Offer

As well as receiving the full Diploma in Coaching Excellence worth £2995, you will also receive:

  • Two-day Foundations Course in Group Coaching and Facilitation - £497
  • Two-day Being and Meaning Masterclass - £497

Full price £3985 - £2995 on the “Master Coach” (saving £990)

About the bonuses:

Foundation Course in Group Coaching and Facilitation

This is a two-day live training course which gives you solid grounding in the techniques for coaching and facilitating groups from 5 to 5,000 people.

Over the course of two days you will learn key approaches for harnessing the power of the group in coaching, for creating a learning space for each member and for dealing with large organisational and community based consultations and facilitated events.

Being and Meaning Masterclass

This two day course addresses clients issues at their most fundamental, existential level of meaning and the purpose of being.

Drawing on existential thought from Shakespeare to the Matrix and from Nietzsche to Auster, you will discover how concerns with death, meaninglessness and isolation form the foundations of human thought, emotion and behaviour.

And you’ll learn how you can coach on these issues enabling the client to greater self-knowledge and understanding and hence a freedom to act and choose.

Places are limited! to reserve your place quickly.