Courses

Our courses equip you for the messy reality of designing and delivering services in complex, live environments

We have three areas of courses dependent on your experience and needs as an individual or organisation. Available publicly throughout the year, or privately for organisations


Build your service awareness

Courses aimed at building your awareness and understanding of services using the 15 Principles of Good Service Design

Designing Good Services

Demystify what makes a good service, helping you to identify problems in the design of services and understand what can be done to improve them

Leading Good Organisations

Empower your senior leadership team to advocate for the value of user centred design and understand what it takes to make and deliver good services


Gain advanced skills

Courses targeted at developing the specialist skills needed to enable good service delivery to happen in the most challenging environments

Stakeholder Leadership

Learn how to create effective relationships that enable good service design and delivery to happen in spite of organisational siloes or uneven power dynamics

Making the Case for Service Design

Learn how to communicate the value of user-centred change and build a compelling financial pitch to gain investment and buy in for designing good services

Designing Sustainable services

Learn how to reduce the impact of your work on the planet and design sustainable and climate resilient services


Learn a new role

Intensive training courses designed to get you working in some of the most fundamental roles of service design and delivery

Agile Service Design

Build the skills you need to design and deliver user centred services in complex agile environments. Understand the full lifecycle of agile service delivery, from research through to live and how to build user centred services at each stage. 

Service Design Leadership

Take your career to the next level and learn how to lead and scale user-centric change across complex organisational environments

What people are saying

 

“Take this course NOW. It will change how you think about services”

Service Owner, NHS

“This course really helped me to challenge my thinking about my services and give me practical ways to make some big changes to it. Thank you!”

Director of Operations, Local Authority

“Since your course yesterday our Director has quoted what he learned in all of his meetings today! We are finally on the right path!”

Head of Health and Wellbeing, Housing Association

“This course is absolutely jammed full of interesting and useful ideas, principles and techniques that will enhance anyone’s knowledge of service design. I didn’t think I had so much to learn!”

Head of UX Strategy, Banking

Upcoming Public Courses

Open to individuals and small teams — join practitioners from across sectors and work on your own service or project

We’re trained over 5000 people across hundreds of organisations

logos of companies that the school of good services has worked with. From left to right; Netlfix, NHS, Wellcome collection, Code for America, Ontario city government, Cancer research, Uber, the UN, the open University

Got a question or want to train your team?

All of our courses are available to book privately for your organisation or team, allowing space and time to focus on your project or service. If you’d like to ask a question or talk about a bespoke or private course, let’s chat