50 Developing Potential Testimonials

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

"ORR wanted something a little different. After the delivery and feedback of the Type Dynamics Indicator, we explored personal meanings and interpretations of personality type through creative artwork.They are all going on the office wall! The day was a complete success. The whole team enjoyed ourselves and I think it was the right balance between taking in information and looking at the different types and then using our own interpretation in a creative way. Feedback from the team was that this had been the best away day so far and we achieved our ultimate goal of creating a different and interesting day for the team. Great thanks to Dan for helping us to achieve this.I think it was very beneficial in terms of team building as well as working on insights into one’s own personality type. Excellent day, thanks! Right pace and very interesting.”

“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!”

“It’s been a really useful day which we’ve all enjoyed. Great to see how and why we all behave differently. It’s been good to remember the importance of accepting people’s personality types and to modify my own behaviour accordingly to make them be heard and comfortable. On benefits to the work place: The fact that we sat/worked as a team having frank discussions on our own ‘personalities’. This should mean a more open minded approach by all; thus evolving the team/team dynamics.”

“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 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!!”

“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.”