Do you know your four key quadrants and how to bring them into balance? On this episode of Gratitude Through Hard Times, Host Chris Schembra welcomes back best-selling author Robert Glazer, who is taking us inside his Elevate framework. As the founder of Acceleration Partners, he and his team provide clients a unique framework through which to optimize the core capacities foundational for healthy, thriving enterprises. You’ll come away from this lively give-and-take with concrete steps for restoring life elements that are “out of whack” and in need of more attention. “It requires deep self-awareness and real authenticity to be the type of leader you actually are,” says our guest. “If I don’t understand my values and why they are my values, I’m showing up as a completely different type of leader.” Don’t miss pivotal insights from Robert’s most recent book, "Elevate Your Team: Empower Your Team To Reach Their Full Potential and Build A Business That Builds Leaders," and frontlines perspectives on the leadership challenges we’re facing daily, both personally and organizationally. Is it time you got your spiritual, emotional, intellectual and physical capacities into alignment? Sign up for Robert’s on-demand course (use code GRATITUDE to receive $20 off). And once you’ve done your core work, let us know about the values that define you!

You can hear lots more about how to push your personal limits by listening in to Robert Glazer’s The Elevate Podcast. Or purchase his latest book, "Elevate Your Team: Empower Your Team To Reach Their Full Potential and Build A Business That Builds Leaders."

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KEY TOPICS:

• Because he’s a repeat guest. Chris slightly tweaks the pod’s signature gratitude question to ask: How has gratitude been foundational to Robert’s “other-ish” orientation in life.
• From the Jump: Acknowledging the value and benefits we receive from the people who come into our lives and the relational elements that cement true success in life.
• About Robert’s Writing Method: Interweaving the spiritual, emotional, intellectual and physical elements that are the framework for his myriad best-selling books.
• State of Mind: If you’re constantly coming into conflict or dealing with negativity, it’s probably time to ask: Are you bringing the best version of yourself?
• Rejection as a Catalyst: How the “Valley of Death” shapes ultimate business outcomes – if we adopt the tools necessary to adapt to and navigate the terrain.
• Reframing Growth: Why it’s important for leaders today to figure out how to bring their entire team along through waves of expansion that are humane and sustainable.
• Robert’s Four Core Competencies to Elevate Organizational Cultures:
  • Spiritual Capacity: Understanding bedrock strengths and values.
  • Intellectual Capacity: Improving your ability to think, learn, plan and execute on goals. It’s your personal operating system!
  • Physical Capacity: Tending to personal performance and optimized well-being.
  • Emotional Capacity: Cultivating strong relationships and how you react to outside individuals and circumstances.
• Finding Your Values: About Robert’s online course and how it expands our spiritual vocabulary and capacity.
  • Examining the role of trust.
  • Bringing awareness to core narratives that drive leadership styles.
  • Finding solutions that reinforce psychological safety in the workplace.
  • Take the free Four Capacities Quiz or use cod GRATITUDE to get $20 off the his on-demand core values course.
• The Role of Vulnerability: How sharing personal stories and normalizing our common humanity empowers teams to look inward, get honest and make necessary adjustments.
• The Growth Mindset: When we explore, attune to and build our core capacities our leadership abilities expand in ways that enable us to be agile and flexible.
• Shifting the Story: How developing the capacity (and helping our teams) to process negative autobiographical experiences turns those negatives into powerful positives.
• Parting Thoughts:
  • Remember to model the importance in today’s hybrid world of being intentional about creating breaks and separation between work and home.
  • A vacation is allowed to be a vacation. Take a real break!
  • Consider using delayed delivery to manage the flow of email – for your benefit and that of others up and down the organization.
  • Don’t forget that setting boundaries empowers everyone!
  • Maintain not just a work-life balance but a life in balance – spiritually, emotionally, intellectually and physically.

QUOTABLE

• “I think gratitude is an orientation … It’s outside of ourselves, thinking about what we can do for others.” (Robert)
• “If you’re focusing (only) on internal, self-reflective things, you’re forgetting about the most important part of humanity, which is to be in relation and connection with and acknowledge the benefits of others.” (Chris)
• "When we show up as an exhausted, diminished version of ourselves, we’re not really helping anyone else.” (Robert)
• “If you’re meeting a**holes every hour of the day, you’re probably an a**hole. It’s your state of mind. How we feel changes our perceptions in all those interactions with others.” (Robert)
• “The whole aspect of capacity-building within an organization is learning, evolving and future-oriented.” (Robert)
• “Leaders are having to wake up and say, ‘You know what? We can’t do the growth-at-all-costs model anymore because we forgot about our people.’ ” (Chris)
• “A big piece of organizational emotional capacity is psychological safety.” (Robert)
• “It requires deep self-awareness and real authenticity to be the type of leader you actually are … If I don’t understand my values and why they are my values, I’m showing up as a completely different type of leader.” (Robert)
• “We make mistakes. We review them. We don’t make them again. We focus on the things we control, not the things we don’t control.” (Robert)
• “What’s cool is that emotional capacity is how you react to challenging situations. It’s your emotional mindset. It comes as resilience, hope, pride, self-confidence, optimism in the face of really difficult circumstances.” (Chris)
• “When you can assign a list of positive benefits to a negative autobiographical experience and give gratitude to it and make it part of your story, it becomes the best thing that ever happened to you.” (Chris)
• “Don’t allow a focus on external variables … If a sales team lost a deal, it should not be about the competitor’s price. It should be about how we showed up, were we prepared, what was the feedback? Things that you can control.” (Robert) 
• “It takes a great level of discernment to look within and acknowledge the things that you can actually control and should change. That takes wisdom.” (Chris)

LINKS/FURTHER RESOURCES:

• Find all of Robert’s books at this link.
• Learn more about the Anatomy of Peace at The Arbinger Institute.
• Discover Robert’s course on expanding core capacities here.
• Find out more about Alcoholics Anonymous’s Serenity Prayer.
• About "Grateful Processing," a concept developed by Prof. Phillip Watkins of Eastern Washington University.

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Robert Glazer is a serial entrepreneur, award-winning executive, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. Founder and Board Chairman of global partnership marketing agency Acceleration Partners, he has significant experience in digital monetization, affiliate & partner marketing, customer acquisition, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer marketing. He has served as a board member and advisor to many high-growth companies in the e-commerce and marketing verticals. Bob shares his ideas and insights via Friday Forward, a popular weekly inspirational newsletter that reaches more than 300,000 individuals and business leaders across 60+ countries. He is a #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and international bestselling author of five books: Elevate, Friday Forward, Performance Partnerships, Moving to Outomes, and How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace. He has also been columnist for Inc., Forbes, and Harvard Business Review, and hosts the Elevate Podcast, a top podcast for entrepreneurship in more than 20 countries.

 

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Chris Schembra is a philosopher, question asker and facilitator. He's a columnist at Rolling Stone magazine, USA Today calls him their "Gratitude Guru" and he's spent the last six years traveling around the world helping people connect in meaningful ways. As the offshoot of his #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling book, "Gratitude Through Hard Times: Finding Positive Benefits Through Our Darkest Hours,"he uses this podcast to blend ancient stoic philosophy and modern-day science to teach how the principles of gratitude can be used to help people get through their hard times.

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