What Our Clients Say
Vanquis Bank (In association with Bowles) Management Development Programme: modular programme over four months
"From not actually wanting to come on the first course to actually actively wanting to attend the last part! I now possess a tool kit to improve myself, my team and my department performance."
"I feel much more aware of how I naturally operate as a manager and how people perceive me as a result. Now I have identified areas to improve and techniques to help."
"The course was intensive, hard work and challenging but great fun and different to any other course I have been on. I have really enjoyed this course!"
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Schlumberger (In association with Mission Performance Ltd) Excellence in Communication: Train the Trainer Programme
"Delivered in a very clear manner with a good pace. A lot of tips and practical information which can be used in real life."
"Appreciated Dan's knowledge. Liked the fact that there was no power point. Appreciated additional options for exercises during teach back session."
"With practice, this will be a powerful tool for improving customer service."
"Beneficial - lots of tools to be layered in over time to improve overall communication."
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EPC-UK Groupe: Strength Deployment Inventory & Management Development Programme
"I came into this course very sceptical, but was pleasantly surprised at how accurate the evaluations were and how it can be used to influence and grow future relationships."
"Excellent programme, well delivered and lots of useful information."
"I found the experience enlightening from the point of view of receiving feedback of role expectancy and how my behaviour is perceived. I will adapt my approach to recognise conflict in others when managing."
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Museum of London. Outdoor Team Building & Development
"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 "
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Herefordshire Council. Strength Deployment Inventory and Team Building Programme
"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.."
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Frutarom, Hartlepool. MBTI & Senior Management Team Building Event
"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."
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The British Red Cross, Strength Deployment Inventory & Team Building Programme
"Very useful and interesting. Really relevant for everyone. Consolidated other tools (Belbin, Myers Briggs etc)"
"Have come across personality profiling before but this was a clear and graphic system."
"Now I feel I can recognise other members of the team traits and personalities it makes it easier to be proactive."
"It has helped me understand my own strengths and the needs of others when things are not going well."
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Spirax Sarco, Cheltenham. MAP Assessment program for new managers.
"Very engaging and interactive, quite intensive concentration required, but overall a well worthwhile exercise. Would definitely recommend to others."
"Very interesting. Good to have a structure and base to work on your development."
"I particularly like the development plan I have to take away from this."
"Also gives me an opportunity to show my strengths in order to progress my role within the department."
"Hopefully the development will start here, but also this should demonstrate strengths to managers when assessing competencies for future projects/positions."
"Good starting point, keen to follow through on the training to achieve professional development."
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Cheltenham Borough Council - MBTI and Team Integration Workshop
"For some team members to say their fears about being taken over by bigger team now all gone was a real plus for me. Thank you."
"Interesting to have my own traits highlighted and how others might perceive me, as well seeing how others see each other."
"A really enjoyable and insightful morning which was good for team building and will help me in all present/ future relationships."
"A real insight and very valuable as I have a greater appreciation of how my actions effect others"
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Government Offices East Midlands, Nottingham - Tools for Increased Personal Effectiveness & Influencing
"Dan was an excellent trainer and made me feel safe and comfortable to share and learn."
"It has been a good day. Useful approaches which will be helpful, thank you."
"I felt it was an excellent introduction and would like and will ask for further input."
"All information very useful with clear developmental areas."
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Museum of London, Outdoor Team Development Programmes
"I was really looking forward to today and I wasn’t disappointed – I thought it was fantastic – really well organised and great support."
"Awesome! Really surprised myself, massively impressed by my team and have lots of lessons learned to take back to work and life."
"Excellent – good mixture of activities, discussion, balance between individual and group aspect was good."
"Excellent day, thank you."
"We have found Developing Potential (UK) to be extremely accommodating and have worked in partnership to develop our Team Development Programme. Each event gives us an opportunity to make improvements to the content/delivery etc and Dan is always open to suggestions and supports with recommendations. Both team managers felt that their own individual objectives had been met after the event and that the feedback provided from Developing Potential (UK) was very useful in helping to identify that the team's individual and shared aims had been achieved. Spread across the two groups the main consensus was that the activities were spot on and allowed the teams to work together through shared experiences. Dan was very helpful in asking and thus highlighting how the learning from the activities could be applied back in the work place. Thanks for a great evening and day!"
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Toyota Financial Services (Associate provision for Bowles), Strength Deployment Inventory & Improving Team Performance
"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."
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Museum of London, Outdoor Team Building
"The day was a hugely enjoyable experience that challenged the whole team in a really positive way. We have all felt the benefits back in the workplace and the opportunity to see collegues demonstrate different types of skills and strengths outside the workplace was invaluable...They all want to do it again next year."
"Very positive, practical skills and experiences served to create a relevant and enjoyable training programme."
"I feel like I know my whole team a lot better now and would feel a lot more comfortable working with each and every one of them."
"Fantastic experience. Feel I have bonded much more with my team."
"Fantastic day – learnt about myself and colleagues."
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Chivas Brothers, London, Myers Briggs Type Indicator
"Very good with good team building too."
"Great experience with good learning."
"Very useful. Interesting personally and professionally. Would like to go a bit deeper implications on career and need for change."
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Government Offices East Midlands, Nottingham, Myers Briggs Type Indicator
"It was enjoyable and interactive, much better than classroom based sessions."
"It was useful to reflect on the different ways in which peoiple responded and reacted to the tasks."
"Very positive. Dan has a very warm and gentle style and exudes calm."
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Prospect School, Portsmouth: Strength Deployment Inventory & Leadership Development
"Understood more about myself and how I react in situations. Also about why others may act the way they do and that I may accidently 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"
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Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate: MBTI & Team Building
"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."
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Spirax Sarco, Bristol: Strength Deployment Inventory & Developing High Performance
"Really useful, challenging my comfort zone at times (good thing)! Excellent facilitation to allow honest/open discussion without recrimination."
"It's a simple, easy to follow programme and its simplicity has many advantages."
"Excellent - looking forward to doing this with my team!"
"Right balance of learning, structure, interaction, activity and fun."
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Wandsworth Borough Council, London: Strength Deployment Inventory & Team Development
"Dan is a relaxed, intuitive presenter who very capably led my team through an excellent away day experience. I can see the benefits for my team that will come from the day."
"I wasn't expecting to have such informed and enjoyable time."
"Enjoyable and good fun. Got to learn new things about my colleagues"
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Kent County Council: Myers Briggs Type Indicator & Team Building
"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."
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Department for International Development: Strength Deployment Inventory
"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)"
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Bryntisilio Outdoor Education Centre, Strength Deployment Inventory
"You pitched it at exactly the right level and raised some very pertinent issues, without actually focussing on individuals or specific issues. Very well presented."
"Dan delivered an enjoyable interactive programme relating to motivational systems. At the end I felt a better understanding of my colleague's motivations and needs."
"Confident and effective delivery. Excellent facilitation – listening and understood questions and responses from participants, giving appropriate and considered answers."
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Department for International Development: Type, Teams & High Performance
"Very enjoyable. I've done other things like it and this was my favourite as it was very practical and fun - excellent facilitation, thank you!"
"The presentation style is key to introduce these instruments and today's style was just right."
"Excellent inclusive style used by Dan. Plenty of space for everyone to participate."
"We had no prior experience of Developing Potential UK and Dan's skill; it was very pleasing to have such an enjoyable and constructive day."
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Office of Rail Regulation: Type Dynamics Indicator with an artistic twist
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. Photo 1. Photo 2. Photo 3. Photo 4. Photo 5. 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."
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Museum of London: Team Building & Integration Day
"Thanks for the training day last Friday - everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. As per the last time, I was impressed with the venue and your personal/professional training standards."
Security Operations Manager
"Just to let you know that I have spoken to the team today and they are universal in their praise of the course and the way you ran it - they think it will have a profound impact on issues of trust, support and team bonding...I did not hear a single negative comment about the day and the team are buzzing at the moment so well done."
Head of Human Resources
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Cheltenham Borough Council: Coaching Skills in the workplace
"Dan was very patient and responsive to the group - he had some challenging questions which he handled well."
"I found this coaching course extremely useful. It was well planned and presented in a relaxed atmosphere."
"A significant amount of ground covered in a short period which unravelled a complex subject in a very practical and understandable format. Provides a springboard to invest in work colleagues by coaching them to develop at work for the future."
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Mencap, London, Myers Briggs Type Indicator and Team Building
"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!"
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World Cancer Research Fund, London, TDI Workshop
"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 sceptical 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."
HR Manager
"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"
"Really 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".
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Cancerbackup, London, Myers Briggs Type Indicator Workshop
"A very interesting day brilliantly presented".
" I had no idea it would be so interesting. I learned a lot about me. Thank you".
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Cheltenham Borough Council, Myers Briggs Type Indicator Workshop
"As a trainer, it is great to see other trainers do a job well. Colleagues who have been trained by me mentioned my style is very similar to yours...I take that as a real compliment."
"Fab, lively, useful, Brilliant - Thank you."
"Very useful experience. Fun and informative...fascinating subject, could explore for a week."
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Museum of London Group, Team Performance Indicator
"I have used the Team Performance Indicator from Developing Potential UK to inform team development training and it has provided a valuable insight on the mood of the team and areas on which to focus when developing team exercises.
It was particularly helpful when it came to selection for the group sessions, identification of training objectives, subjects for discussion and the identification of next steps post training. It will also be very useful in providing a benchmark to facilitate more objective evaluation of the effectiveness of team development over time and provides a more rounded picture than simply using a single instrument to identify team role preferences or type.
I would have no hesitation in recommending this to anyone who is considering more complex team interventions to improve performance or who may simply have concerns and wants a quick health check of a team to see where they are at this point in time."
Mark Richards, Head of Human Resources
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Intense Photonics , Myers Briggs Type Indicator & Team Building Event
"Fun and surprising seeing individuals change more than expected."
P. McCallum, Head of Operations
"Very beneficial in seeing my strengths and weaknesses and how I see other people in different formats (out of their comfort zone)".
"I found the team building exercises valuable as they gave me more confidence to lead within my team."
"Fun, interesting and very worth while."
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All Hallows Catholic School - Professional Development Workshop
"I thought I would feel awkward but I felt very comfortable, thank you."
"Great ideas and great energy - I just wish we had more time."
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Blacon High School, Chester, School Council Training
"Thank you for organising a superb school council training programme. The pupils were thoroughly engaged in thought provoking and interactive activities to make them consider the role and hopes of a school council representative. The pupils greatly enjoyed the variety of activities which have given them confidence not only to be better council representatives but given them useful skills to use in their daily lives. The sessions were extremely well executed, with clear directions, very good presentation and personal presence. I would recommend this company to other schools."
M. Eldridge, Assistant Head Teacher.
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Headliners Trainer Training. On behalf of Brathay
"Dan had an energy and enthusiasm that was infectious. He was very patient and calm and the group responded well to him. Excellent trainer - would look forward to working with him again"
"You managed to make the group realise their potential and hidden talents."