50 Developing Potential Testimonials

“Understood more about myself and how I react in situations. Also about why others may act the way they do and that I may accidentally provoke a situation when trying to help. The practical exercise was powerful in learning about what motivates individuals and how we respond to set tasks according to motivation levels. More alert to the risks/threats to our team’s performance when we go into conflict, and how to ameliorate those. An enlightening, thought-provoking, yet enjoyable day in which I gained a better insight of myself and others.”

“Great mix of physical and mental challenges that help you to see how your group works, what your role can be and where to resolve conflicts within this. A good experience, I think people who thought the day wouldn’t be useful gained as much as everyone else. You could see change happening with your eyes. Good that each of the mangers were tasked with a different group. Gave me an opportunity to get to know lots of different members of the team, newer and more stayed.”

"I understand my team better and now have a real idea of weaknesses and how we can overcome them. I will take many parts of the event back to work. Being new to the company gave me a real insight into my team. Interesting day where I learned more about my team members and their preferences – a great experience that is really eye opening!!”

“Interesting! The final activity really showed how team working and proper goal setting can affect the team result of a project. The first activity showed how we, as a team, could potentially ‘get it wrong’. Understanding the skill sets of people will give me a greater breadth of resource when getting ideas and making informed decisions. Also feel more open to have honest discussions at work. We are starting to understand what engages team members and what does not. Change can be positive. I feel the team now knows how to improve and why improvement is required for us to begin the journey in becoming a high performance team. Excellently led, enjoyable, very professional and in a relaxed environment where you were made to feel at ease.”

“I thought that the day was facilitated well and everyone participated. Good overview of key issues with plenty of time to discuss and time for personal reflection both before and after. I found the day interesting and informative. As a management team we don’t spend much time together so in addition to learning and being reminded of the Myers Briggs personality types and my own preferences, I found it useful spending time with my colleagues and getting to know them a bit better. I also believe the output will be useful so that when working together we’re more aware of how we can make our different approaches make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Useful and productive team building. Met and exceeded expectations in terms of content and buy-in from the team.”

“Thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Great to take time away from the office. Good to get the team together. Very interesting. It was very worthwhile to spend time as a team to learn more about ourselves and each other. Very enjoyable, learned a lot from the experience. I learned a lot about myself and also my colleagues.”

“It was a very different experience to what I expected! It was a good way to approach ice-breaking situations away from the normal team building events. Enlightening with enjoyable group activities that help me to get to know the other people in my group better both personally and professionally. It has made me be more aware of the different approaches to a given task and how we can integrate different personalities to form the strongest possible team. It would have taken me much longer than it has to develop this many relationships, and to the degree which I have developed them to. Very challenging and enjoyable. Brought me forwards in leadership and speaking out.”

“Great experiential experience. Learning skills that will support our cultural journey. I clearly now understand the principles of coaching, the difference between giving advice, mentoring, and coaching and have learned new tools to use not just in the work environment but for personal growth and understanding as well. This was well worth the time and I would advise others to invest – it will make your job a lot easier!”

“This course changed my life. It has inspired me to better myself as a manager and mentor.”

"Excellent day of training, really well facilitated. Good style and helpful tool set for future work in teams. Good framework for analysing my responses to different situations and for understanding the responses of others. Concrete actions points to follow up on. Excellent (quality of Dan’s facilitation).”

“A really useful tool that will help me in my own L&D programmes .Extremely useful and provides an insight on how other people react in a conflict situation. I enjoyed the day and have learnt about the best way to identify when I am in conflict with myself and others and what I need to do when this happens.”

“Above my expectations. Great day, very well facilitated. Enlightening, morale boosting, fun. 10/10. Excellent – had a great day. Full of fun and great learning. Great! This really helped to push the team journey forward. Nice to do something differently.”

“This was an interesting, fun and informative day. That you very much. Presenter was really open and had a good communicative style. Useful new ways to look at situations and relationships.”

“Very engaging, interesting and applicable to professionals/businesses. Really insightful and informative. Good practical take-outs to enable learning to be applied. A very useful tool for helping teams and individuals to identify ways to improve performance.”

“Surpassed my thoughts of what this could entail. Excellent theory and combination of team participation. Really nice facilitation style! Very useful in home and work relationships. I have been able to notice traits and triggers that have clearly shown how I can improve my relationships with those around me. It helps me to know how other people react and what to be treated when they are in conflict. Very valuable insight into behavioural changes during conflict and what my motivations for self and others are.”