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Every DuraSkills workshop is tailored and grounded in real-world practice.

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Problem: Overwhelm, ambiguity, procrastination, fatique in the face of work today.

53% of leaders say productivity needs to increase, while 80% of employees say the lack the time or energy to do their work effectively.

Solution: Build daily personal leadership skills to turn overwhelm into clarity, protect energy and attention, align time to right effort, make progress over costly perfection, strengthen follow-through, and keep moving when conditions change.

  • Move beyond traditional time management and rethink how you make choices about priorities, commitments, attention, and energy.

    Practical takeaways:

    • Assess B4 Yes to evaluate the real time, energy, value, and hidden cost of a commitment before taking it on

    • Apply DRIVE to clarify Deadlines, Results, Importance, Value, and Experience before deciding what deserves attention

    • Use Top 2 + Not-Do planning to separate meaningful priorities from activity

    • Use AI tools responsibly and effectively to clarify priorities, prepare a work plan, reduce cognitive load, or challenge procrastination patterns while preserving personal agency.

    • Identify personal time thieves and turn them into practical time transformers

    • Break overloaded work into achievable next actions rather than carrying everything as one large mental burden

    • Create boundaries and buffers around high-value work

    • Leave with a practical personal prioritization approach that can be used immediately

    Outcome: Reduce overwhelm, make stronger commitments that you can follow-through on, and put limited time where it creates the most value.

  • Time is finite. Energy changes. Learn how to work with both.

    Practical takeaways:

    • Use Energy Design to identify what restores, sustains, and drains personal capacity

    • Recognize the difference between being busy and being effective

    • Map high-energy and low-energy work against the demands of the day

    • Get away from ineffective timeblocking and To Do lists, learn what works in today’s attention economy.

    • Learn how to craft an effective Results list and introduce your Not Do list

    • Use ultradian focus cycles and recovery periods to support deeper concentration

    • Build buffers before exhaustion becomes performance loss

    • Identify recurring patterns that create unnecessary cognitive or emotional load

    • Use the Capacity Matrix to make workload and capacity more visible

    • Create a personal strategy for protecting energy during demanding periods

    • Use Digital, AI, and Analog tools responsibly and effectively, that can help support your everyday focus, action, and experience.

    Outcome: Reduce exhaustion, increase sustainable energy, and create a healthier relationship between workload and performance.

  • Transform Procrastination into your best action intelligence. Learn how to understand the resistance behind specific action avoidance, and convert that resistance into forward momentum to follow-through.

    Practical takeaways:

    • Myth: There’s something wrong with you. NOPE. Welcome to being human. Learn how our biology and neurology play a role in helping us resist taking action. Learn the 5 root causes of procrastination behvaour, and how different tasks bring out different behaviours.

    • Whether procrastination is being driven by ambiguity, perfectionism, lack of value, fear, capacity, or unclear expectations, learn how to transform each style into productive action.

    • Use the DRIVE framework to reconnect an activity to Deadlines, Results, Importance, Value, and Experience

    • Apply Assess B4 Yes to identify commitments that should be renegotiated rather than forced

    • Replace perfectionism with Progress Over Perfection

    • Use brain-dump-to-next-step techniques to reduce cognitive overload

    • Break intimidating work into visible, achievable actions

    • Learn how to identify the smallest meaningful micro-action that can 10x your momentum

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you boost your action and follow-through.

    Outcome: Transform avoidance into clarity, momentum, and purposeful action.

  • When the work is unclear, people either stall, overwork, or solve the wrong problem. Learn how to create enough clarity to move.

    Practical takeaways:

    • Learn the DRIVE framework, inspired by Lean Six Sigma and Project Management best practices, to clarify what is expected, when, why it matters, what value it creates, and what “done right” should feel and look like, for all.

    • Apply DRIVERS when risks, resistance, and stakeholder perspectives need to be surfaced

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you quickly get organized and sharpen your action.

    • Use the Clarity matrix to turn vague assignments into workable decisions

    • Separate knowns, assumptions, signals, and unanswered questions

    • Use Two-Week Sightline Planning to connect immediate action to a meaningful outcome

    • Break it Down methods: Learn how to effectively break down unclear work into actionable next steps

    • Empty Chair: Identify whose perspective or decision is missing that could impact your work or outcomes.

    • Green, Yellow, Red: Know when to proceed, when to clarify, and when to challenge the assignment itself. Prioritization methodology for high stress periods.

    Outcome: Reduce ambiguity, improve confidence and momentum, and help people move forward without waiting for perfect certainty.

WORKSHOPS

Problem:

The greatest illusion is that communication actually happened.

55.7% of unsuccessful projects identify ineffective communication as a contributing factor

Solution:
Turn ideas into shared understanding, alignment, and action through clear, intentional, and responsive communication.‍ ‍

  • Build the confidence, presence, and practical facilitation skills to hold a room, read an audience, create participation, and move people from passive listening into meaningful engagement. Learn how to structure presentations, lead discussions, ask better questions, manage energy in the room, navigate difficult moments, and create stronger buy-in across workshops, meetings, pitches, and executive presentations.

    Practical takeaways:

    • read the room and adjust in real time

    • design for participation rather than passive listening

    • open and close sessions with purpose

    • use questioning techniques that create dialogue and insight

    • manage silence, resistance, dominant voices, and low engagement

    • facilitate conversations without losing direction

    • use voice, pacing, physical presence, and movement effectively

    • build confidence for executive presentations, workshops, panels, and public speaking

    • turn content into an experience people remember and act on

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you boost your human engagement and presentations.

    • Improve how people structure ideas, reduce ambiguity, and communicate what others actually need to understand.

    • Learn the 8Cs to building a productive and meaningful communication practice. Great for project teams.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you boost your stakeholder engagement and relationships.

    • Strengthen concise, decision-ready communication for leaders, sponsors, clients, and senior stakeholders.

    • Learn key decision methodologies that can be used in different real world scenarios.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you boost your decision making through heavy communication periods.

    • Effective storytelling is one of the most powerful tools you can learn to use.

    • Build presentations and pitches effectively.

    • Boost meaning, hold attention, and move people toward action, whether you are pitching yourself, an idea, a project, or a change you need others to support.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you save time, get meaningful results, and land your messaging on target.

    • Strengthen listening, interpretation, questioning, and response skills across professional conversations.

    • Practice real world use cases that are relevant to your project and team.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you boost your active listening and reflection skills towards better understanding of complex situations.

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Problem: Decision waste, slow project action & weak judgment under pressure

61% of executives and managers said at least half of the time their organizations spend making decisions is ineffective.

On projects, that can translate into delayed action, repeated discussions, rework, competing interpretations, and valuable management time spent without moving the work forward.

Solution: Strengthen how people reason through complexity, evaluate information, solve problems, and make sound decisions.

    • Build practical approaches for evaluating information, questioning assumptions, and making stronger decisions when the answer is not obvious.

    • Learn to separate signal from noise, question assumptions, evaluate competing information, and reason more effectively when the answer is not obvious.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you boost your critical thinking pathways and learn how to stress test your decision pathways quickly.

    • Strengthen judgment, prioritization, and decision-making when time, information, or certainty are limited.

    • Leave with 3 different key decision frameworks that work for high stakes days.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you boost your decision pathways quickly and with good governance.

    • Work through real challenges using structured problem-solving techniques that move teams from symptoms to root causes and useful action.

    • Move beyond symptoms and recurring problems. Use structured approaches to uncover what is really happening, explore options, and turn insight into useful action.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you boost your speed, precision, and analysis for solutions that work in the real world.

    • Think clearly under pressure, assess risk, solve project problems, and make stronger decisions when complexity, uncertainty, and competing priorities collide.

    • Strengthen project performance: assess risk, interpret complexity, solve emerging problems, and make stronger decisions across the project lifecycle.

    • Learn 4 practical planning methods and how to drive value realization early and beyond the lifespan of your project.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help boost your planning, project intelligence, and implementation cycles.

WORKSHOPS

Problem: When relationships break down, projects and initiatives drift.

Projects rarely fail because of the plan alone. Misalignment between the people delivering, sponsoring, and adopting the work can create conflict, slow decisions, increase scope creep, delay adoption, and erode value.

Solution:
Build trust, strengthen collaboration, navigate complex relationships, and work more constructively across teams and stakeholders.

    • Forget Small Talk. Learn Real talk that drives opportunities.

    • Strengthen professional identity, authentic conversation, meaningful networking and conversational skills, relationship-building, and collaboration skills for people who want to connect and work more effectively with others.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you build effective mapping to build out and boost your professional relationship intelligence.

    • Building trust practices that foster high performance team culture.

    • Explore the practical conditions that build trust, psychological safety, accountability, and collaboration across roles, functions, generations, and working styles.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you boost effective and meaningful team collaboration that drives respect, results, and reality.

    • Build the practice and skills to navigate disagreement, tension, difficult feedback, and competing perspectives, while using conflict as a catalyst for stronger conversations and better team outcomes.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you boost your ability to quickly process and respond with precision, understanding and authenticity.

    • From silent and invisible conflict to meaningful and visible understandings: Learn how to identify and navigate key conflict situations that are often silent killers of team strengths. Remove the blindspots for you and your team.

    • Develop stronger approaches for understanding stakeholder needs, building credibility, strengthening inclusion, and maintaining productive relationships across diverse teams and communities.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you boost your projects, your people, and your performance.

WORKSHOPS

Problem: Yesterday’s thinking won’t always build tomorrow’s value.

Nearly 60% of leaders say their organizations would significantly underperform market expectations if they stopped investing in innovation and creative thinking.

Solution: Build the capability to see what others miss, challenge what no longer works, imagine what could exist, and turn possibility into value.

    • Learn practices that help to see beyond immediate deliverables to align better to vision, while solving for changing and dynamic project variables.

    • Explore emerging signals, alternative impact futures, changing customer needs, and new possibilities to identify opportunities before they become obvious.

    • Strategic design thinking for innovation and digital transformation projects, including governance and human oversight embeded into process.

    • Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you build meaningful value realization.

    • Learn 3 key frameworks that help challenge assumptions, uncover drivers behind a problem, and structured creative-thinking methods to generate stronger responses when familiar approaches no longer work.

    • Learn key Digital, AI, and Analaog tools that help inspire ideas, collaborate, and solve for multi-dimenion challenges driven by high change environments.

    • Learn how to spot What’s Working, What could be working better, and the 1% micro-action needed to move forward.

    • Inspired Action: Connecting every effort to vision, via the Vision-to-Action Pathway.

    • Experince design, energy design, crafting the story around the next milestone.

    • Designing your days for high creative insights

    • Project design session that focuses on the impact, experience, and intended value generated to all stakeholders.

    • Journey Design: Capture imagination, ideas, and experiences. Tranform emerging ideas into concepts, test assumptions quickly, experiment intelligently, and determine what has enough value to take forward into a real world experience.

    • Create your project’s Impact twin, to help guide decisions and adapt as reality changes

    • Leave with processes and tools (digital, AI, Analog) that you can tap into to maximize your imagination into realization.

    • Use human-centred design, systems thinking, business-model innovation, and emerging technology to rethink how your organization creates, delivers, and captures value.

    • Impact Twin: Design the Impact Before It Happens

      Move beyond plans, milestones, and traditional success measures. Build an Impact Twin that models intended outcomes, assumptions, stakeholder adoption, emerging signals, value creation, and potential consequences, then use it throughout the life of the initiative to guide decisions and adapt as reality changes.

    • Lemonade: Use Digital, AI, and analog tools responsibly and effectively to help you redefine potential challenges into potential opportunity.

WORKSHOPS

Problem: Buying AI is not the same as becoming AI-capable.

62% of executives identify AI talent and skill shortages as their biggest barrier to realizing AI value, while only 6% say meaningful workforce upskilling has begun.

Solution: Learn how to Work confidently with digital tools, data, and AI while applying context, judgment, and responsible decision-making.

    • This is a tailored session, based on skills your group needs.

    • Time Savers & Action Optimizers: Update your processes, time management, energy and focus boosters.

    • Understand how to work productively with AI while strengthening judgment, questioning, verification, and human oversight.

    • Systems Thinking: Move beyond AI awareness, and into AI Alignment for your projects and workdays.

    • Learn how to evaluate nd choose the right tool for the right outcome.

    • Learn how to work effectively with generative AI, ask better questions, evaluate outputs, build useful workflows, and understand where human judgment still matters.

    • Apply principles of provenance, governance, and human-oversight into your everday workflow.

    • Boost trust with outputs through best practices in human oversight of AI workflows.

    • Explore where AI can support work, where human reasoning remains essential, and how to make better AI-assisted decisions.

    • Design how technology meets Humanology: Strengthen the human capabilities AI cannot replace.

    • Explore verification, bias, privacy, responsible use, critical judgment, and when to question or override an AI-generated answer.

    • Craft real-world workflows and optimization pathways for your daily work, team, and projects.

    • Build confidence interpreting data, asking better questions, and using evidence without requiring advanced technical expertise.

    • Build effectiveness working with data without needing to become a data scientist.

    • Learn foundations, principles, and methods around data management as it relates to your projects and collaboration.

    • This session is tailored to the needs of your group’s realworld projects and data.

    • Learn to interpret evidence, recognize misleading signals, ask better questions, and turn information into actionable insight.

    • Help teams adapt to changing tools, workflows, expectations, and digital ways of working.

    • Identify where AI can meaningfully improve your workflows, decision-making, customer experience, and productivity.

    • Move from scattered experimentation toward purposeful use cases that create measurable value.

    • Using real-world scenarios, tested workflows and tools, boost your productive time and reduce AI waste time and frustration with the latest tools available.

    • This is a tailored session, so the lessons are aligned to the needs of your group.

WORKSHOPS


We match each group with the facilitator best suited to the work.

Our trusted professional network includes experienced facilitators, trainers, advisors, and subject-matter experts across Canada and internationally, selected for both their expertise and their ability to create high-engagement learning experiences.

DuraSkills workshops available in 2hr, 4hr, full or multi-day sessions. In-person or online.

Where we started:

Our founder and senior facilitator, Rose Hastreiter, PMP, brings more than 25 years of professional development and industry experience, with 1,500+ live learning events delivered, 35,000+ professionals reached, and average participant ratings of approximately 4.8/5.

That standard matters to us. Every facilitator we bring into a DuraSkills experience is expected to meet the same bar for practical relevance, subject-matter credibility, participant engagement, and delivery quality.

Our client roster:

Built through more than 25 years of Leonty3C service, spans higher education and research, government and public agencies, healthcare, technology and telecommunications, financial services, natural resources, transportation, professional associations, nonprofits, and private-sector organizations.

DuraSkills represents a natural evolution of our work across professional development, project leadership, organizational change, facilitation, and applied learning. It brings that experience and professional network into a focused framework for strengthening the human capabilities people and teams need to perform through this incredible era of change.