The Peak Performing Team

The Peak Performing Team

By Faith ClarkeBusinessEntrepreneurship
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The Peak Performing Team episodes

  • Successful Inclusion in the Workplace
    Cultivating inclusivity on your team will positively affect every aspect of your team's life and effectiveness. Inclusion alone will massively increase your team's engagement, and this will have a ripple effect within the team, the organization and outward to the wider community. Yet, this state within a team may not be easy easy to create and sustain. This episode reviews the basics of successful inclusion and suggests 3 simple (though not necessarily easy) ways to improve inclusion in your team and organization. The slides for this episode and a checklist of team experiences that can help you assess the health and development of your team are available at PeakPerformingTeam.com
    25 min
  • Anuradha Kowtha - Building the post-capitalist organization
    Anuradha did not spare any punches in this episode! We started off our conversation with a reflection on our humanity, and the wisdom that comes when we honor that humanity. Then Anuradha went straight into the core message: Equity and Inclusion is impossible within capitalist and colonialist systems. As much as we try, our organizations produce the results that their founding systems were based on, unless they are radically reengineered. "Indoctrination from capitalism and colonialism has made us cookie cutter", Anuradha says, and we are missing so much of the richness and innovation that humans can contribute to many of these spaces. Listen as we discuss Anuradha's experiences with racism and disability, inclusion, accessibility and some possible solutions to cultivating spaces that overcome these issues.
    Connect with Anuradha and register for the upcoming session of Sowing Post-capitalist Seeds, an experiential journey into the practice and praxis of creating post-colonial communities. Mention the podcast for the discount Anuradha mentioned in this episode! 
    Anuradha Kowtha, a catalyst, educator, and Business Liberation Strategist, who works with small businesses and organizations to liberate their essence so they can meet these uncertain times with resilience and courage. Anuradha's journey working across both public and private sectors has led me to see systemic issues like hierarchy and exploitation and find ways to address systemic issues at their root cause. The thread that runs through Anuradha's work is illuminating and liberating individuals and small teams from the indoctrination and cookie-cutter thinking that comes from capitalism and colonialism, so they can provide bold and innovative solutions rooted in justice to their clients. 
    Connect with Anuradha:-
    https://www.sowingpostcapitalistseeds.com
    https://www.thekowthaconstellation.com/ 
    https://www.facebook.com/TheKowthaConstellation 
    https://www.instagram.com/thekowthaconstellation/ 
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuradhakowtha/
    41 min
  • Faith’s birthday episode!
    It’s been a doozy of a year! In this episode, I share my yearly birthday reflection ritual with you! The big questions for me when things feel hard are 1) what motivated me? 2) What’s the thing I want to change in the world? I share my thoughts on the revolution I’m championing and my why (my kids) and some ways you can share in the revolution if you want. And if you are a social impact business leader who is committed to fully delivering in your brand values by eliminating the practices in your organization that may have come from other values that aren’t what you hold any more, and that your organization’s real values are reflected in every team member’s hearts and feet, let’s talk. I can help. Happy birthday to meeeee!! Visit FaithClarke.com or PeakPerformingTeam.com to be in touch.
    18 min
  • Want Successful Inclusion? Start Including Yourself

    Cultivating inclusivity on your team will positively affect every aspect of your team's life and effectiveness. Inclusion alone will massively increase your team's engagement, and this will have a ripple effect within the team, the organization and outward to the wider community. Yet, this state within a team may not be easy easy to create and sustain. This episode explains what inclusion is and discusses the negative impact of not including YOUR OWN differences. We cannot include differences in others that we reject in ourselves. 

    18 min
  • 5 or so minutes: Inclusive Team Communication

    Communication is the life blood of every team. The tasks don't fit together to meet your team's goals without it. This quick episode shares 3 isses that may be slowing the communication flow in your team. Which one resonates the most for you?

    Get a detailed checklist to help you figure out exactly what you need to do to help your team become even more effective, engaged and efficient at PeakPerformingTeam.com

    7 min
  • Céline Williams - Building Healthy, Human Team Communication

    Beautiful time connecting primarily as humans.Céline and I talked about the wide range of business and community structures that we clearly not built for humans. Céline is a leadership and culture design maverick that truly helps businesses unearth THEIR way, that works for them. Céline is relentlessly authentic and leads a diverse team of people who have the freedom to show up in their own way, and who approach things with curiosity. But her team wasn’t always this way. We reflected on the idea that we are often leading people through growth that we are also doing, and the importance of having self-coaching tools that help us notice, become more curious and challenge our assumptions. We talk about what a team is and the primary way we can differentiate team members from other people who support us. We thought about our businesses as a playground, and our need to define boundaries as well as creating a space where humans can thrive. Communication is the life blood of this playground, and Celine closes with her key advice for all business leaders who want healthy team communication that include all the humans on the team.

    About Céline: Céline Williams (ACC, CCUG) is an international speaker and the founder of reVisionary, an award winning boutique consulting firm providing executive coaching, leadership development, and culture services to people-focused businesses around the world. Céline has almost 20 years’ experience working with growing organizations to help them navigate change and build leadership capacity, and is the trusted advisor to leaders and executives in a variety of industries. She is sought after for her expertise in accelerating team performance, designing culture, navigating change, and facilitating effective communication.

    Connect with Céline!

    • www.revisionary.ca 
    • linkedin: celinewilliams 
    • IG: revisionary_celine 
    • FB: revisionary_ca
      • 38 min
    • 5 or so minutes: Getting more done with less effort

      I call it the 3 C's. Craft.Communication. Capacity. They help me focus on the fastest way for a team to get relief from some of the tiny fumbles, squabbles and exhaustion that results. If you know that things on your team are just a little off, the first step is to know where the problem is. Is it the team's craft, communication or capacity? Of course, they all affect each other, but picking a starting point that will cascade improvement and relief into the other areas is key!

      8 min
    • Handling Problems (miniseries ep. #5)
      The only thing that we know for sure is that things will change. In this final episode of this miniseries, I discuss Murphy's law and some strategies and resources for helping your team continue to practice effective teamwork, allowing your business to grow in stable ways, even when everything feels crazy. If you’ve already listened to the episodes and are ready to practically apply this in your team, go to FaithClarke.com to do the Team Performance Audit. It will help you know exactly what your team needs to work on next to become more efficient, effective and engaged. 
      Your business will only be able to survive these disruptive times if your teams consistently adapt and perform. Your business depends on this.
      16 min
    • The Antidote to Team Burnout (miniseries ep #4)
      High performing teams often run out of steam and find it difficult to keep meeting deadlines, especially during hectic and stressful periods in the business. In these chaotic times, employee well-being is more important and ever. In this episode, I talk about some of the causes of team burnout and a 4 step practice that will help protect your team from burnout while helping them maintain their performance. If you’ve already listened to the episodes and are ready to practically apply this in your team, go to FaithClarke.com and schedule a Team Performance Audit. It will help you know exactly what your team needs to work on next to build this team superpower. Your business will only be able to survive these disruptive times if your teams consistently adapt and perform.
      29 min
    • Your Job Description Might Be the Problem (miniseries ep #3)
      Have you ever hired the perfect person for your team and seen them struggle to be as productive as they were on other teams? In this episode, I talk about 
      the problems with how team tasks are usually broken down and 
      how job descriptions may be blocking team productivity
      I share an inclusive strategy for creating the team's tasks and workflow that maximizes experiences and skills. If you’ve already listened to the episodes and are ready to practically apply this in your team, go to FaithClarke.com and scheduled a free Team Performance Audit. It will help you know exactly what your team needs to work on next to build this team superpower. Your business will only be able to survive these disruptive times if your teams consistently adapt and perform.
      22 min

    About The Peak Performing Team

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    This podcast is for business owners who want their teams to produce exceptional results and innovate powerfully in the face of challenges. This won’t happen without teamwork habits that cultivate…