About SMG Learning
How can we help you?
At SMG Learning, we specialise in workforce training designed to enhance your team's capabilities and positively impact the communities you serve.
With decades of experience as behaviour change practitioners, our training equips staff with practical skills essential for effective behaviour change interventions.
Our bespoke training programmes are tailored to meet the specific needs of local authority, third sector, and healthcare organisations. We cater to all levels of seniority and knowledge, ensuring each course builds the skills, confidence, and capacity needed to effect successful behaviour change.
We begin by assessing each client’s unique requirements, crafting customised training solutions that can include recruitment support, course evaluations, promotional assistance, licensed training materials, booking websites, and e-learning modules.
Our popular training courses include Motivational Interviewing, Planning and Delivering Behaviour Change Interventions, and our Royal Society of Public Health accredited Making Every Contact Count (MECC) training.
Why choose us?
Our Experience
We bring decades of experience training thousands of participants and hundreds of organisations, across all sectors. We've trained staff from local councils, primary and secondary care, government agencies, social care, the third sector, and beyond. Training also draws on our wider experience as behaviour change practitioners.
Our Flexibility
At SMG Learning, we tailor all staff training to meet your specific organisational needs. We avoid generic ‘off the shelf’ solutions by customising our training and resources to align with your unique requirements and strategic goals, ensuring our offerings are both relevant and impactful for your organisation.
Our Focus On Best Practice
Our training adheres to the highest standards and evidenced-based guidance from public bodies, such as the UK and devolved governments, NICE, HEE, and academia. We also support strategic objectives and key policy initiatives, including national health improvement targets and the NHS’s workforce development goals.
Our Accreditation
Our accredited training programmes assure consistent high quality of our training and support. We continually update our course content and delivery based on client feedback and changing needs, policy developments, and best practice. We are also an approved training provider for the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH).
Our Programme Delivery
Our training solutions are supported by a comprehensive package, including communications and recruitment support, booking administration, venue management, and evaluation. We ensure that new skills and competencies are effectively integrated, maximising the impact of our training on your organisation and staff.
Our Emphasis On Quality
We are dedicated to maintaining high-quality training. We continually evaluate through pre and post-course questionnaires to assess the effectiveness of our programmes and provide clients with detailed feedback. We also offer follow-up evaluation to help assess impact of the training and further support needs.
Our Trainers
Our training team brings a rich wealth of experience of cross sector training, with participants coming from local councils, government agencies, primary care, acute hospital care and third sector bodies.
Andy is one of the UK’s most experienced behaviour change practitioners. He has used his extensive practical knowledge to design and deliver courses on social marketing, evaluation, Making Every Contact Count and motivational interviewing. Andy has trained thousands of participants staff across the UK and internationally. A skilled facilitator, Andy has conducted hundreds of focus groups and interviews and is a published writer. He’s also an expert researcher and former university lecturer, with a strong track record in public health and community development.
Mike is a confident and experienced trainer with over 12 years’ experience delivering courses in the field of behaviour change. Mike has trained thousands of people, and has hands-on behaviuor change experience in stakeholder management, research, testing, facilitation and project management.
Robyn is an experienced trainer and coach who skillfully combines theory and practical application to facilitate positive behaviour change.
Her engaging and interactive training sessions provide participants with a thorough understanding of the topic at hand, along with the tools required to support and empower the communities that they work with.
Caroline brings extensive public health and programme delivery experience to her role in SMG Learning.
Responsible for training project management, business development, and course delivery, she is passionate about effecting impactful and demonstrable behaviour change.
Amy has over 10 years of administrative experience and provides the team with support across training scheduling, event management, fieldwork recruitment and diary organisation.