50 Developing Potential Testimonials

"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).”

“I was extremely happy with the outcomes and feedback from the Kuala Lumpur Development Centre and I am looking forward to the Tunisia programme. Group work with people from different social style and personalities made the exercises a good platform to access personal development areas; I’m very confident that this programme will be very helpful for me and my job; Very critical for me as a Sales Person where it highlights my weaknesses and areas I need to improve on.”

“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.”

"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!!”

“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.”

“I feel like I have learnt a lot about myself and others. This experience will benefit me both inside and away from work. It was an amazing workshop and really helpful with understanding other’s behaviour and generally more understand people and get to know them. Fun and informative. Good insight into other team members motivations which previously wasn’t aware of. Relaxed learning environment. Very good, paced well and delivered in a thoughtful yet punchy manner – well suited to our group.”

“Fantastic! Learnt so much valuable information. Extremely enjoyable; team working was a very effective way to learn the content of this workshop. Helped me to gain a new understanding about others – personalities, relationships and how to respond. A very useful and rewarding session. Very interesting – a whole new way of looking at ways of communication.”

“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."

“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 enjoyable, time flew by. Not death by PowerPoint which was a bonus and liked the fact that it was more based around discussion and bullet point facts. It’s useful to recognise and understand your own personality traits – which would never normally happen without a session like this. It’s also very laid back and personable so easy to get involved and feel like the session is beneficial to all. Learnt something about myself – opposite to what I initially thought. Made me appreciate how to adapt my personality to enhance my working life."

“Enjoyable and interesting, a tool I can think about/use in and outside of work.” “Very interactive and easy to understand.” “Really positive, genuinely useful.” “Interesting, interactive and eye-opening!”

“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.”

“I have taken so much from the experience and it has really had a massive impact on what I want to do in both my work and personal life, so a definite course that I will be recommending to my leadership colleagues.”

“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.”

“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!”