Hidden Metrics: The Coach's Secret to Success That Really Matters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798993123707)

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.