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The Peak Performing Team
by Faith Clarke
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 energy, flow and results. In The Peak Performing Team, Faith will help you guide your team to energize, adapt and produce so that they can sustain peak performance, even when the world and/or their personal lives get complicated.
Episodes
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Neurodiversity and barriers to full contribution in the workplace
This week's episode is a real treat for me. My friend and colleague, Celeste Herron, interviewed me on my podcast! We discussed neurodiversity and the ways that the workplaces of today can better nourish all the ways that we are human. Fundamentally, cultivating the inclusive workspace is about...
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Mia Francis-Poulin: Healthy Onboarding and Supports
Mia and I pulled back the curtains and looked at the innards of her team onboarding and staff supports practices. Since Mia is in a beautiful growth phase in her business, she's been expanding her team and is actively thinking through the most effective ways to connect her team members to...
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Why does Onboarding fail???
Studies say as much as 70% of new hired don’t think theirs companies onboarding processes helped them get up to speed in their new role. AND more than 50% of managers find their company’s onboarding processes to be burdensome and overwhelming. No wonder we have so many values breakdowns in our...
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Jane Rosenzweig: Race in the Workplace
Jane Rosenzweig and I had a beautiful, vulnerable, courageous conversation about her experiences as a white DEI practitioner, wrestling with helping majority white organizations integrate their DEI values into the daily behaviors of all associates. Jane has spent her career developing corporate…
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5 or so minutes: What’s Team Craft?
In this episode I talk about one of the 3 C’s that help me figure out the best intervention strategy for teams. I gave an overview of the 3 C’s in episode #6 and then about Communication in episode #8. CRAFT is an artist’s analogy for the team’s WORK. Craft has 3 components and I talk about them...
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That meeting should have been an email!
Why did we have that meeting??? I’ve heard that complaint from BOTH team leaders and team members. It’s tempting to think that meetings are the problem and that they should be avoided at all costs. But avoiding them would be a mistake. Team meetings are synergistic powerhouses, when we get them...
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Nikki McKnight - Make your business culture more explicit in every way.
Grab a notebook and get ready! Nikki McKnight and I have a fast paced, totally authentic conversation about what businesses need to do to build spaces that make it easy for people to contribute. Nikki shares strategies and practices that help the culture to become more explicit and meetings more...
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Karlee Fain - Leading your team as you scale your business
I'm sooo excited to share this conversation with Karlee! She represents the beginning of everything since I met her in the early days of being trained by autism to be present and settled, even when life was crazy. She was teaching yoga and I was learning to care for myself and build my home…
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Marissa Loewen - Leading a diverse team
Marissa and I had a blast talking about the unique ways that our differences show up in the work place and on teams. From rocking and hand flapping to introversion and hating cold calls, we explore the various ways leaders can support ALL members of the team and help find the middle ground, where...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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What’s missing from your team meetings? (miniseries ep #2)
Now that you've heard the fundamentals of building an effective business team in episode 1, this episode will focus on a simple process for helping the right team member become a team player! This transition is not automatic, but the right ingredients in your onboarding strategy and your team...
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Build an Effective Business Team (miniseries ep. #1)
In the first episode of this special miniseries, I share the foundations for building effective business teams. I discuss the importance of focusing on these foundations, instead of on strategies like popular teamwork tools and performance reviews. This focus will create the right conditions for...
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2020 - Disrupting Business as We Know It
In this episode, I close the podcast season with a reflection on 2020 and the invitation that it gave me to step FULLY into my calling. I talk about inclusion, systemic racism, neurodiversity and tokenism and how my children challenged me to make the workplace safe for kids like them. This is a...
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Meet Sarah - Disrupting grief and isolation through connection
Sarah is known as the resident extrovert whenever she's out and about. She's the one who sees who's on the outside and pulls them in. She's the person I needed to have at high school parties! Connection is her superpower and she helps people connect in nourishing ways. She is a mom, wife…
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Meet Angie - Photographer, Mom of 4, Disrupting Chaos with Trust
Angie and I had this conversation in 2019 and the world has changed so much since then! Back then, she had 3 kids, now she has 4. Her journey through her photos is breathtaking! Her journey as a parent and business woman, nourishing the complex medical and developmental needs of her kids inspires...
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Meet Autumn - Disrupting through Conscious Community
What to do when you don’t have a model for what you need? Autumn says: - Start with what works for you. - Prioritize peace. - Create the environment that helps you be your best self. - Be an active participant in life. These beliefs lead Autumn to completely change where and how she lived, to…
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Meet Emma Eppard - Disrupting with relentless implementation
Meet Emma Eppard, a beast at relentless implementation as she homeschools, creates curriculum and supports other moms. Emma has no middle ground. She’s either all in or all out. Her mantra is ‘Let’s do something about it’. She’s integrated her problem solving superpower with her background in...
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Edlyn - Disrupting Communication Fallacies in Autism
Edlyn is a catalyst of positive change in the autism community. We had a beautiful conversation about believing what others can't believe, advocating for our kids voices and presence on a world that does not (yet) fit them. Edlin Peña loves integrating and connecting with autistics and…
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Rachel - Being a Force within Disruption
I’ve known Rachel for years... Seriously! There are yearbook pictures of Rachel and I together as pre-teens. Although her son has an undiagnosed neuromuscular disorder, Rachel is committed to 'squeezing every ounce out of life', and has built a practice of finding at least 3 gratitudes every day....
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Meet Maria: Disrupting with Autism in Black
Sometimes autism interventions are culturally incentive. As 2 mamas of black children, Maria and I talk about a little of what that means.Maria, this amazing mother of three, wife, author, speaker, therapist and America's number one autism advocate for black families - as she likes to call her...
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Meet Lacey: Disrupting Chronic illness, autism, addiction.
Lacey and I are kindred. She jokingly suggests that it's my glasses but I think it's the way she embraces her story; how she joyfully accepts the difficulty in her life instead of resisting. What I appreciated most about our talk was Lacy's honesty. Most things most people would hide away until...
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Ridvan Foxhall - Being entrusted with a high energy child
I've been super grateful for Ridvan's presence in my family's life. I found her on google! I was looking for a diverse musical theater program that would honor my kids and give them space to grow into themselves. And I found CTC - Peekskill and met Ridvan! She's an occupational therapist…
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Meet Sharon Hujik - Disrupting privilege to nourish a trans-racial family
Meet Sharon Hijik: Business Leader. Problem Solver. Coach. Mentor. Web Developer. Public Speaker. Teacher. Student. Mom. Wife. Sharon and I met at a conference, recognized our similarity where it mattered: in our hearts. As fellow homeschoolers and entrepreneurs who coach entrepreneurs, we...
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Tamara Arnold - Business Coach and Mental Illness Disrupter
Black Eyes Peas! Mumford and Sons! N Sync! The color green! All things Tamara loves! We had a fantastic time discussing Tamara's passion to disrupt the stigmas associated with mental illness. Listen to Tamara share her journey with mental illness, her parenting journey, when she broke up with her...
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Disrupting PTSD to Heal with Hope
“Ma’am, i just want to say, to warn you that he will never say mommy again to you. Prepare your self to put him in an institution. You can’t fix this. There’s nothing you can do” - Lorina's son Zander's autism diagnosis meeting. Meet Lorina - Warrior mama, educator on healthy & holistic wellness...
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Meet April - Disruptive Advocacy and Action
Meet Dr. April J. Lisbon: mama, coach strategist, empowerment speaker, author. April and I had a fantastic, vulnerable, intimate conversation one Saturday morning, right in the middle of autism mommy life. We talked about dealing with childhood trauma and her determination to advocate for and...
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Claudine Allen: disruption, homeschooling, weight loss and trust
"Life is really about trust. Make a choice to do the thing that you are passionate about and trust that you will be successful, just like you trusted when you first went to work" - Claudine Allen In this episode of Disrupt and LEAD, Dr. Claudine Allen shares her journey from college professor to...
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Disrupting the Diagnosis
In this episode of Disrupt and LEAD, I share the disruption that started it all (in this phase of life, anyway), Jaedon's diagnosis. I talk about the 'shock and awe' of the experience, and the devastating aftermath, and the gradual rebirth that occurred because of this experience. As you listen,...
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Are you in the movement?
There's a movement happening and it's exciting to watch! Many families caring for loved ones with a disability have decided to create life on their own terms by starting businesses that make sense for their lives and support them financially. I'm calling these people, the Autastic Biz Tribe, and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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 energy, flow and results. In The Peak Performing Team, Faith will help you guide your team to energize, adapt and produce so that they can sustain peak performance, even when the world and/or their personal lives get complicated.
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Faith Clarke
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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 energy, flow and results. In The Peak Performing Team, Faith will help you guide your team to energize,...
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The Peak Performing Team is created and hosted by Faith Clarke.
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