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Elevate Your Team
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Elevate Your Team

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

Robert Glazer
Simple Truths, 2023
First Edition: 2023
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Your people have the ability to achieve superior performance. It’s your job as their leader to “elevate” them so they can maximize their talents and move ahead. To achieve that goal, CEO Robert Glazer advises creating a learning-driven corporate culture that offers employees pathways for career development. He provides a planned, effective capacity-building framework for getting there. A serial entrepreneur, Glazer shares his experience recruiting people with high potential and helping them achieve their full capabilities. In this helpful manual, he explains how that works, from hiring to staying healthy.

Summary

Hire people with superior potential and develop them.

Does your organization have a talent development problem? Do some employees have a hard time pursuing a viable career path within your firm? Then take a closer look at your employee development activities.

You want to design an employee development program that helps “elevate” your staff members and enables them to build their capabilities and advance in their careers. As your team’s boss, be intentional about increasing each member’s ability to succeed. High capacity equals high growth.

The most effective employee development programs address each individual’s “spiritual, intellectual, physical, and emotional” growth. Such programs enable firms to grow by helping their employees grow.

Top employees accentuate their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. 

Fully developed employees understand their individual strengths and weaknesses. They apply this self-knowledge to build on their abilities, cultivate strong habits, and address their deficits and faults. Such employees have a sense of direction, base their career path on their values, and love...

About the Author

Founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners, Robert Glazer hosts The Elevate Podcast. He also wrote Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others and Friday Forward: Inspiration & Motivation to End Your Week Stronger Than It Started.

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