Hidden Metrics - by M Nora Bouchard (Paperback)

About the Book

Presents a framework to create your best self at work. Includes a workbook to capture thoughts and track progress, as well as over 100 illustrations and models.

Book Synopsis

Congratulations! You are in charge. Now what? You've been promoted, have new direct reports, a new peer group, and possibly a new boss.

You have questions. How do you succeed when you aren't clear on what their expectations are of you?

You find yourself in back-to-back meetings, unsure of when to speak up and how. All while you worry about the "work" that is waiting for you back in your office. People want your time, and you aren't sure how to protect it anymore.

Thinking back, you found easy success as a contributor, but in this leadership role, you aren't sure how to add value. What are the unspoken rules? How do you find excellence again?

There's more, though. This time it's different. You feel a deep need to be your own leader; to inspire, influence, and to do what you know is right. This is your time to find meaning in your job; to do what really matters. How do you do that exactly? How can you finally be yourself at work?

Hidden Metrics: The Coach's Secret to Success That Really Matters reveals the hidden expectations and presents a practical approach to defining leadership that works for you and is grounded in your vision, personal guidance system, and empowering strengths.

Throughout the book, you'll find modern leadership models that bring meaning to you and your teams. You will:

• Discover what is meaningful to you
• Create a vision that is yours alone
• Lead from your value system
• Demonstrate your expertise through your strengths
• Discover how to build trust, and repair it
• Get the most out of your relationship with your boss, peers and direct reports

Using real-life stories from emerging leaders to those in the C-Suite, Hidden Metrics, uncovers what professional coaches know: the path to leadership success isn't paved with profit-and-loss statements alone. There is a lot of hidden effort, unspoken dreams, and personal drive that makes things happen, and most of it isn't observed, measured, or celebrated.

Hidden metrics are the invisible gauges you create, either alone or with your coach, to measure your progress toward living your best self at work. They represent the contributions you make that are grounded in your unique talents and abilities. Hidden metrics become a map that leads you to the most satisfying and fulfilling parts of how you give to the world through your work.

Get the answers you need now rather than waiting to stumble over them in real-time. Begin your leadership journey with clarity, vision, determination, and a plan for success.

Hidden Metrics includes a handy enclosed workbook for you to record your personal thoughts about meaning, vision, values, and strengths.

Review Quotes

Hidden Metrics serves as a powerful guide, blending inspiring stories with actionable

strategies that energize readers to clarify their values and success goals, and embrace their

full potential, and spark both personal fulfillment and professional development.

I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone seeking to transform their leadership

mindset, acknowledge their progress and achievements, and celebrate their success."

-Patricia Eckert, CFO

"All leaders have goals they share with their teams to get alignment to drive forward.

The truly great leaders-the legacy builders-have goals they keep to themselves to

drive further, faster. In Hidden Metrics, executive coach extraordinaire Nora Bouchard

shares compelling stories of clients' experiences to inspire you to create your own hidden

metrics-goals so personally meaningful they'll energize rather than drain you.

Nora's gifts for getting to the heart of what really drives each of us and helping us to

confidentially craft our work to support those most-meaningful goals comes through

every page of this timely must-read." -Veronica McKee, CMO

"Nora Bouchard captures what I've learned through decades of leadership: the invisible

internal shifts create the most powerful external results. Her 'hidden metrics' perfectly

illuminate how orchestrating emotions and mindset transforms us into the leaders we're

meant to become." -Tracey Virtue, Author of Leveraging the Virtues of Leadership

"As a Founder and CEO, I found this book highlights what leaders need most - a guide to

measure and celebrate subtle changes in our confidence, mindset, and behavior that are

invisible on a spreadsheet but what truly drive long-term success. It serves as an accessible,

practical resource for entrepreneurs and small business owners who need high-quality,

coaching support but lack a large budget." -Karen Orlich, CEO/Founder K.O.ecolife