50 Developing Potential Testimonials

“Excellent programme – lots of interaction, tools and techniques – very good. It made me self-reflect in a good way and has given me more self-confidence and strategies. Helped me to clearly see my performance gaps and what I can do to address them. These three sessions have been really insightful and have inspired me – thanks.”

“Leadership courses are often one size fits all. I have specific actions for myself and my career off the back of this. Different insight to the normal leadership courses done before. Good energy in facilitation. I remained fully engaged and found the content thought provoking. Really enjoy this! Not just another development course or death by PowerPoint – it is practical!”

“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.”

“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.”

“Interesting, relevant, useful. Very interesting and rather an eye opener. I feel this will be relevant in our workplaces and will be put to use in a variety of ways. I enjoyed the practical tasks and the way they kept the whole group involved. Good experience in terms of looking at my motivational value system and how I can be perceived by others. Learning outcomes on how to improve conflict management better. I am reviewing past situations and able to view them differently. Seeing where I may have gone wrong and how I should now approach similar situations to achieve my goal."

"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!!”

“Excellent application of a good framework that will provide all participants with a toolkit for their personal/professional development. The next step is to live the theory and see what difference it makes – next bit is up to us individually/collectively. I feel every company should do this. I will surely recommend to many of my friends. I have found the course helpful to me, so I may understand how to change my behaviour and work on my relationships in the workplace and socially.”

“The TDI event was a great team building experience, we all learnt a lot about one another as well as ourselves. Those who started the event feeling skeptical left feeling that they had learnt something new. Dan’s style of learning provision was less teacher and more facilitating; no one felt obliged to comment and no one was judged by what they said or did. It was a very positive experience and we all left feeling upbeat about ourselves. Communicating with Dan has been very easy and straight forward from the beginning to the end. Dan was often always available when I needed information and was always able to provide me with all answers to my questions. I was grateful for Dan’s flexibility and understanding when arranging the date for the first event and also to our other needs. For me, my expectations were exceeded. Most people found the event very refreshing and came out feeling rejuvinated and empowered. I am also excited by the prospect of arranging a follow-up event to keep the momentum going and to providing the training to all members of staff. This will certainly impact on our efficiency as a business. It was very useful to see this applied over our whole workgroup and see the dynamics that govern our companies behaviour. NReally interesting course, highly recommend it for helping others to understand my own and my teams personality types. Great insight. A Good, relaxed session that was a great deal of fun”.

“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.”

“Excellent facilitator, enjoyed content and opportunity to interact with the group. Really positive day – enjoyed working with colleagues and finding out more about people’s personality types. Very, very interesting and engaging. Very relaxed and enjoyable day. I was surprised at how much I learned and how easy it was to understand.”

“It was enjoyable and interactive, much better than classroom based sessions. It was useful to reflect on the different ways in which people responded and reacted to the tasks. Very positive. Dan has a very warm and gentle style and exudes calm.”

“It’s strange to think how time flies, but I have taken so much from the training you ran…It’s been great, as I have taken a far more positive and motivational approach than I have ever done, and the impact and results have been fantastic; the teams in-store have responded far more than I could have ever imagined. It sounds strange, after doing this role for so long in different companies, that the more ownership and positive feedback you give, the greater people respond.”

“I have found out how my behaviours lead me to respond in a particular way. I have also learned how others perceive my behaviours and have a toolkit which helps me to work better to support my team. Enjoyable, interesting and an opportunity to think outside of the box with a different perspective. Informative and challenging – it has been useful that there has been an open exchange of views which should help me to lead the team to improvement.”

“Good balance between learning through teaching and experiencing. Non-challenging, open, honest and enjoyable. Very well presented to create an understanding and inclusion of all personality types and individual needs. I thought the day was very thought provoking and will help me as a manager to better understand how to communicate with my colleagues. The course is very good – the day seemed to fly by!”

“Great fun, very educational and revealing. I learned a lot about my personal style and I’ve already seen improvements in my approach to things as I try to improve my blind spots. Good bonding through the event and a good chance to break down some barriers both between teams and individuals. It was a great format to discuss and offer feedback between us about what makes us tick. All told, a great development event for teams and individuals. Really enjoyable. Pleasantly surprised at how much was packed into such a short amount of time. Well done! Great Event!”