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Elevate Your Team

Empower Your Team To Reach Their Full Potential and Build A Business That Builds Leaders

Robert Glazer

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Elevate Your Team
The Core Challenge & Solution+
Pillar 1: Spiritual Capacity+
Pillar 2: Intellectual Capacity+
Pillar 3: Physical Capacity+
Pillar 4: Emotional Capacity+

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Question 1 of 6
What is the 'death valley' phenomenon described in the book?
  • A. When a company runs out of funding before launching its first product.
  • B. When a company stagnates and loses star talent after a period of exponential growth.
  • C. When employees experience severe burnout due to unrealistic management expectations.
  • D. When a company fails to transition from traditional marketing to digital marketing.
Question 2 of 6
How does 'capacity building' differ from traditional professional development?
  • A. It focuses exclusively on training top-performing employees for executive roles.
  • B. It replaces all external hiring with internal promotions regardless of skill level.
  • C. It is a holistic strategy that fosters development in both the professional and personal lives of all employees.
  • D. It requires employees to complete a set number of mandatory training hours each year.
Question 3 of 6
According to the first pillar (Spiritual capacity), what serves as a leader's 'North Star'?
  • A. Their core values
  • B. The company's quarterly financial goals
  • C. The management style of their most successful mentor
  • D. Their emotional intelligence and empathy
Question 4 of 6
What is a key recommendation for building Intellectual capacity across an organization?
  • A. Limiting training strictly to the specific tasks required for an employee's current role.
  • B. Outsourcing all management training to third-party educational institutions.
  • C. Focusing exclusively on technical skills rather than time management or goal setting.
  • D. Providing management and future-skills training to all employees, even those not currently flagged for promotion.
Question 5 of 6
How should leaders promote Physical capacity among their team members?
  • A. By organizing mandatory company-wide athletic competitions.
  • B. By role modeling healthy boundaries, such as using delayed delivery for weekend emails.
  • C. By praising employees who consistently work late and on weekends.
  • D. By tracking the exact number of hours employees spend at their desks.
Question 6 of 6
What is the foundational element of Emotional capacity and psychological safety in the workplace?
  • A. Maintaining a strict separation between professional and personal lives.
  • B. Avoiding disagreements and opposing views during team meetings.
  • C. Trust built through vulnerability and sharing what is deeply personal.
  • D. A zero-tolerance policy for mistakes and errors.

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Elevate Your Team Summary & Overview

Elevate Your Team (2023) presents a framework to optimize team performance and drive company growth, while safeguarding employees against burnout. By implementing this strategy, leaders can guide their teams to reach their full potential, so that both they – and their company – thrives.   

Who Should Listen to Elevate Your Team?

  • Leaders seeking sustained business growth
  • Managers wanting to optimize team performance
  • Directors looking for a new framework for success

About the Author: Robert Glazer

Robert Glazer is an entrepreneur, the founder and Chair of award-winning marketing agency Acceleration Partners, and a best-selling author. His books include Elevate, Friday Forward and How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace

Glazer is the host of Elevate Podcast, and his work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Business Insider.  

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