A shift needs to be made in training and development for professionals to balance technical skills with interpersonal competencies. If you want to boost the performance of your professionals, look to leadership development for the real answer. Our article outlines a framework for building out professional performance.

Our leader interview with Ray Ivany (President and Vice-Chancellor of Acadia University) provides key insights for making a difference and contribution. Ray always provides a boost in motivation and his interview provides that very opportunity.

Jamie O'Neill adds her four cents in terms of the need to simplify our lives.

The Power of Mentors can be the real piece you need to provide the advantage to move your career forward to where you want to be. The DeVenney Code outlines practical comments on mentors.

Is leadership bi-focused? I think to be most effective as leaders, we need to be bi-dimensional. We may be managers, but we need to be leaders. As a leader, we also need to be managers. How can that happen?

Leadership is the word of the decade and we all want to be perceived as leaders. As leaders we innovate, envision, and point people to the golden future. Management has taken a hit in the last decade. To manage is to be mundane it seems.

Not so - management needs to take its rightful place for leaders to be most successful. In our article this month, Leaders, Managers, or Both?, we talk about how to co-exist in both roles and why we need both sides of the equation.

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Leader: “People have no initiative anymore. Nothing happens if I am away – everything stops until I put a burr under their saddle and get things moving again!”

Getting things done through others is the single greatest challenge for leaders – at all levels of the organization. The answer to increased employee motivation and initiative lies in the leader’s mirror.

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“Stop for lunch and you are lunch!”

It’s just a bumper sticker but we can all relate to the feeling. Time is our limiting factor and we all feel the pressure. Time is our scarcest resource – there is no more being created – and unless we manage it, nothing else can be.

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Performance is bottom line. Growth and profitability is about achieving results by focusing strategically to take the right actions.

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