Managing expectations, relationships and interactions in the workplace can be all-consuming – but it doesn’t have to be
You deserve to feel excited about your work, not exhausted from second-guessing your every move.
Human Skill School gets you there.
Cohort in progress. Join the waitlist to hear about our next cohort starting in September 2026.
You’ve got the ideas. You’ve got years of experience. You want to be the go-to that everyone fights to have on their team – but something’s not quite landing.
You’re left out of projects you could easily lead
You’re rarely asked for your opinion when you know you have something to contribute, forever chasing updates, and feel constantly out of the loop.
You know what to say, but don’t know how to say it
In meetings, brainstorming sessions or just whilst waiting for the kettle to boil in the office, you find it hard to communicate the ideas you know are brilliant.
Your colleagues seem to be advancing their career much faster
You’re leapfrogged by co-workers with less experience, but who are chosen for opportunities sooner.
Imagine feeling seen, heard, and valued in the workplace, instead of being overlooked and constantly second-guessing.
You’re energised by your work, because your input has been asked for, listened to, and implemented.
You find it easy to talk to your team without rehearsing before or instant regret afterwards, whether it’s on Slack or face-to-face.
Your brilliance and competence is recognised, so more opportunities come your way.
That’s the power of
Human Skill School
A 7-week programme teaching you the research-backed human skills we need to make day-to-day work feel less draining, and futureproof your career too.
Together we’ll work on your
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Build the internal confidence to show up in any room, and the external presence that makes others confident in you too.
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Stop carrying the weight of every workplace interaction, by reading the room, adapting without overthinking, and maintaining momentum when work feels hard.
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Express yourself clearly no matter who you’re talking to, and handle difficult conversations and situations while staying emotionally intact.
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Become an easy person to work with by adapting to different working styles, having open discussions, and working through problems together in ways that strengthen rather than strain your working relationships.
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Understand how relationships drive career progression, and how to strengthen yours: from first impressions to celebrating others to repairing those that have gone awry.
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Rebuild your independent thinking to use in creative projects, critical evaluation and workplace challenges, all without depending on AI.
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Stay steady through change and bounce back from setbacks by embracing learning, flexibility, and resilience.
7 weeks. 7 must-have human skills. Lifelong benefits.
Within each Human Skill School module, we’ll:
Learn
with live lessons to improve your knowledge of the skillImplement
with a task to immediately embed the skill in your real-life daily workShare
with our live story sessions, where we come together as a cohort to share workplace stories and learnings to reflect and help each other growGrow
with the bespoke toolkit you’ll leave each module with, which you can use again and again (and again!)
Human Skills training is transforming careers – and lives.
We’ve been building a world around human skills education for 3 years, training thousands of professionals who were tired of winging it through workplace interactions.
Now Human Skill School brings together the research, frameworks, and practical tools that helped them stop feeling exhausted by people and start getting recognised for their work.
Don’t just take it from us…
Join our next cohort starting
September 2026.
Enrolment for Human Skill School opens on Monday 14 September 2026.
Our next cohort starts on Monday 21 September 2026.
Join the waitlist to receive an exclusive early bird offer (where you can save £200 on your place).
Psst – many companies offer a Learning & Development or education budget that covers the cost of Human Skill School.
When you join the waitlist, if you need your manager’s approval, you can use our email template to tell your manager you’re interested in joining a programme that will improve the way you work.
If this sounds familiar:
Carrying the emotional weight of every interaction with your colleagues
Feeling drained by meetings and exhausted by small talk
Being technically brilliant, but winging your way through moments that matter
Holding back and doubting your every move, while others get opportunities
Wanting something deeper than surface-level platitudes to help
Then Human Skill School is perfect for you.
Informed by research, designed by a human for humans
Human Skill School isn’t your average corporate training vibes.
We’re swapping stuffy slide decks for live lessons that feel like your favourite YouTube channel.
Instead of generic advice to “just be yourself”, we’re diving into research-backed frameworks you can actually apply.
There’s no time-consuming work to add to a calendar already stretched thin: the live lessons and activities are built into work you’re already doing.
And there’s no personality makeover, either. Come as you are, develop the human skills you need, and leave as you are.
Meet that human,
Dr Hayley Dawson
In my 16-year career across 4 sectors, I went from entry-level employee to leader by mastering human skills.
Knowing how to interact, communicate, and adapt will help you stand out in every job (and help you actually enjoy your work!) but no-one was teaching these vital skills; so Let’s Talk Human Skills was born.
Since then, I’ve trained over 12,000 employees and students at institutions like ASOS, NatWest, The King’s Trust, and Manchester Metropolitan University, and reached thousands more online.
Human Skill School is the next step in helping people thrive in their workplace and their career.
You might have questions
That’s a good thing, as you’ll learn in Module 4!
Luckily, I have answers:
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Human skills are learnable skills that help us interact and work well with ourselves and others. They help us communicate clearly, build relationships, and navigate both personal and professional challenges.
Alongside technical skills and operational skills, they’re the skills you need to advance your career.
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You’ll need to commit 3 hours per week.
Each week we have a 90-minute lesson. Your time practising the skill will be baked into the work you’re already doing at work. You’ll spend 30-60 minutes per week sharing challenges and wins with Hayley and other students via the course platform. There’s also 3 × 60-minute reflective sessions throughout the programme.
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Every company has slightly different rules, but generally it’s best to get written permission that they’ll fund your place, and then you can forward your email receipt so that they can reimburse you. Alternatively, they might purchase the seat for you. You can get an email template to ask your employers to pay for your seat here.
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That’s great! Human Skill School meets you where you’re at, so you’ll be able to build on the foundation you’ve already got.
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Here’s what a typical week might look like:
Monday: You’ll join a weekly live lesson with Hayley. She’ll help you improve your knowledge of the human skill, and you’ll create a personal toolkit throughout the session that you’ll use during the week.
Tuesday – Thursday: You’ll move through your usual work week while practising the human skill, with your toolkit in hand. Use the community chat to get support from Hayley and other students to troubleshoot real workplace situations as they happen.
Friday: You’ll visit the community chat again to share your challenges and wins for the week.
You’ll also get to join three live reflective sessions where we come together as a group to share workplace stories and learnings to reflect and help each other grow.
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Yes. Each live lesson will run twice at different times. All sessions are recorded so if you can't make it one day, you won't miss out. It would be a shame if we didn’t see you live, but not a problem for your progress.
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As this isn't a programme specifically designed for a particular career stage, all levels of seniority are welcome. If you want to master the human skills that help you stand out as the go-to in your company, Human Skill School is for you.
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As opposed to technical skills, which have an average life cycle of around 2.5 years, human skills will serve you for a lifetime, which is why you get lifetime access to Human Skill School when you sign up.
We run live lessons for 7 weeks, but if you need longer you can take longer.
We’ll update the programme with each cohort we run, so you’re always welcome to join live sessions in the future and long after you’ve completed. You’ll get the updates for all other resources too.
We’ll tell you when a new cohort starts so that you can sign up to any session you’d like.
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If you’re paying for yourself (i.e. your employer is not funding your place) then there is a payment plan available to spread the cost over 3 months.
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Yes. Human Skill School comes with a 100% money back promise. If you complete the programme and aren't happy with your experience, drop us an email within 7 days of finishing with your reason for the refund and we'll process it. We’re confident that if you do the work, you’ll get tremendous value, but if you genuinely don’t, we want to make it right.
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Human Skill School is based on 16 years of observation, 6 years of documentation, and 3 years of painstaking research, which is to say, it’s backed by science that’s been proven time and time again. We’ve already helped over 12,000 people build their human skills.
Take the guesswork out of working with people
Enrolment opens Monday 14 September 2026.
School starts Monday 21 September 2026.
Limited to 50 students.