Welcome to BASIC Coaching!


Transform your staff using the BASIC Coaching Method


  • A method that's proven.
  • An approach that's affordable.
  • Support all your staff to build capacity and bring a positive approach to improving teaching and leadership.


Welcome from Andy Buck, the creator of The BASIC Coaching Method...


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Three proven benefits to a coaching approach


Retain and improve your staff

  • BASIC coaching will improve relationships across the school, helping to retain staff for longer periods
  • Introducing coaching across your school will help early career teachers to become middle leaders more quickly and successfully
  • Middle and senior leaders will become even better at bringing out the best in the teams they lead


Create a shared language around coaching

  • Using the BASIC Method of coaching and feedback will help to develop language around conflict and challenge that won't scare staff and parents and allow you to resolve difficulties more quickly
  • Using BASIC coaching will create a shorthand for both culture and climate and help schools to improve as an organisation through more effective leader communication
  • A coaching mindset will help schools to improve at pace and manage the challenge of change


Equip all staff to manage the challenges of teaching

  • As schools engage with more of young people's lives, BASIC coaching will help staff to communicate more effectively in these more challenging areas
  • BASIC Coaching helps staff to develop a wider range of dynamic skills to meet the higher expectations of the profession
  • BASIC Coaching is and affordable way to help all staff to support students and parents to become better and to be more effective at improving the school



Andy Buck has taken what can sometimes feel like a very complex and overwhelming topic and created a concise and powerful method for coaching.



Mandy Coalter, Founder, Talent Architects



With our book and workbook we have synthesised the very best research and thinking into coaching into a simple coaching method that is easy to learn and implement, and is being used right across the world.


Discounts are available for bulk orders and for licencees who are part of the BASIC QTA programme.


There are also accompanying books in the same series, both available on Amazon:


BASIC Leadership


BASIC Teaching

We now have three options for flexible online training and qualification in the BASIC Coaching Method.


Online training and qualification.

Most suited for small numbers who like the flexibility of an asynchronous approach.


Training Day

We come to you and deliver an intensive training day, in which all participants have the opportunity to gain the qualification (usually on or just after the day)


QTA Licenced Programme

The opportunity for you to run your own training and award the qualification for yourself. Most suited to organisations looking to create a coaching culture across a group of schools.


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Don't take our word for it...


“Andy Buck has taken what can sometimes feel like a very complex and overwhelming topic and created a concise and powerful method for coaching.”

Mandy Coalter

Founder | Talent Architects


"If you want to bring out the best in others, you need look no further than the BASIC coaching method."


Tim Rutherford

Deputy CEO | The Ted Wragg Trust


"Every school and college leader, executive, manager or parent will learn something helpful and positive from the tips, tools and the structured approach that the BASIC method provides."

Mike Buchanan

CEO | Positively Leading


"Some people just get it. They are able to explain the heart of a situation and unravel the mystery. Andy Buck gets it! I have been formally coaching for over a decade. I read this book and realised that there is more to learn and my practice is about to change."

Diana Osagie 

Director | Courageous Leadership