You may be wondering why all the promotions are passing you by. Here are 10 things you can do to set yourself up to progress in your career and prepare yourself for a leadership position.

A coaching conversation unfolds as a form of gentle inquiry aimed at helping a person to think through a problem, clarify an objective or find new perspectives. The "coach" uses open-ended questions that invite novel thinking, and largely refrains from giving their own tips.

When someone comes to you with an idea of something they want to do, but they’re still wondering about it, instead of jumping in to give them all sorts of advice, try adopting a coaching posture by asking these 4 questions.

Coaching is about having the right supportive mindsets, as well as displaying excellent communication and coaching skills. Adopting a positive, humane, winning, mindset will help you be a better leader coach.

Knowing when to coach is just as important as knowing how to coach. Coaching works best when you want to invite new perspectives, or have team members discover their own solutions. Here are a few tips on how to go about it.

The first reason that I prefer the term “leader coach” rather than “manager coach” is that management is associated with ensuring that processes work properly, bringing order, organizing and controlling. Whereas leadership is associated with dealing with people, creating a vision, establishing trusting relations, motivating, empowering others.

If you’re new to leading a virtual team, with a dispersed team also new to telecommuting, you will need as many resources as possible to help you succeed in this new mode of being with your colleagues and coordinating work online.

There are so many books about coaching and it’s quite hard to navigate through all the titles to find what really matches your needs. Here are a few tips from my bookshelf.

The current world crisis has shown that human qualities, empathy, compassion, kindness are cardinal to overcoming the many difficult challenges that people are facing everyday. To help bring empathy to life in the workplace Dana Walden shares her expertise, in a webinar entitled "Empathy". Dana tells us about what it is, how to develop it easily and the immense positive impact it has on the workplace. Please watch and give us your impression in the comment box below. We'd love to hear from you!