Mochary Method Curriculum

Mochary Method Curriculum

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After reading a sub-doc, please write on this main doc your answers to the following questions:

• Does it resonate, yes or no?

• What questions or comments do you have about this writing?

• Will you apply it? If yes, exactly what actions will you take?

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First-time Onboarding

• Matt Mochary Bio: Coach (2 min)

• Mochary Method Coaches: coach.mocharymethod.com

• Mochary Coaching Methodology (CEO 1-1) (5 min read)

• Mochary Method Curriculum

Essential Reading

• On Time (3 min) Video

• Top Goal (CEO) (2 min) or Top Goal (investor) (2 min) Video

• Fear and Anger give bad advice (5 min) Video

• Fear and Anger: how to shift out of it (2 min)

• Heard: how to make people feel it (2 min)

Further Reading

• Regina Gerbeaux’s Resources for Operators

• Chief of Staff (5 min) Video

• • CEO role (2 min)

  • Biz Ops (3 min)

• Onboarding a new hire (2 min)

• • Firing Well (updated) (5 min)

• Feedback: Receiving: the 5 A’s (3 min)

• • Feedback (15 min)

• Restoration and Creativity: how to achieve them (3 min)

• • Remote happiness, how to create it (9 min)

  • Finding play (5 min)

• Trust and Like (5 min)

• • Trust, Deep (2 min)

  • Fundraising- The Relationship Method (10 min)

  • Mistake: Repair, Rewind, Redo (1 min)

• Energy Audit (4 min to read; 45 min to do)

• • Zone of Genius (3 min)

  • Restoration and Creativity: how to achieve them (3 min)

  • No - how to say it (6 min)

• Meetings: How to make them effective and efficient (4 min) Video

• • Meeting guidance sheet (1 min)

  • Transition: How to successfully transition a group to a new method (2 min)

  • Writing vs Talking (and Video) (3 min to read, then 2 min video) Video

  • Meetings (20 min)

  • Brainstorming: written (2 min)

  • Meeting: Exec Team: Deconstructed (2 min)

  • Meetings: Reviews (Pipeline, Project/Business Unit, Cross-Departments) (2 min)

• Decision-Making (8 min)

• • Issue / Proposed Solution template (group)

  • Issue / Proposed Solution template (1-1)

  • Issues/Solutions Tracker, example

  • Agreement-Tracker: why you need one (3 min)

  • DRIs: Directly-Responsible Individuals (3 min)

  • Clean Escalate (2 min)

  • Lord of the Flies (1 min)

  • Loudest voice in the room (1 min)

• Mission, Vision, Values: How to create them (2 min)

• • [PUBLIC] Mochary Method - Vision 2031 (example)

  • Personal Info, Team - example (1 min)

  • Budgeting (2 min reading, 12 min video)

  • OKR Creation (6 min)

  • • OKR Tracker, example (2 min)

  • AORs (2 min)

  • Process Audit

  • • Processes Template

• Motivating your team (3 min)

• • Magic Questions (1 min)

  • Praise (3 min)

• Conflict Resolution (aka Relationship-Building) (10 min)

• • Board feedback with Matt Mochary (5 min)

  • Exec Team feedback with Matt Mochary (6 min)

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All of the reading in one place

• Matt’s Book: The Great CEO Within (online) (several hours)

• Matt’s Book: The Great CEO Within (on Amazon) (several hours)

• Wiki for The Great CEO Within (several hours)

• Mochary Method Curriculum (several hours)

Mochary Method Curriculum

Remote work

• Remote happiness, how to create it (9 min)

• How to maintain personal connection in a remote world (3 min)

• WFH guide (Clearbit) (a while)

• Do Remote Right (work in progress)

• Zoom - look like a rock star (5 min)

• Remote: Gitlab’s Guide to All-Remote (a while)

• Remote: Dropbox virtual first toolkit (a while)

• Remote Team by Zapier (a while)

Relationship-building

• Heard: how to make people feel it (2 min)

• Trust and Like (5 min)

• Relationships: How to get good at them (2 min)

• How to maintain personal connection in a remote world (3 min)

• Relationships - How to create a good one between a Manager and her Reports (3 min; 60 min for the links)

• Appreciation (1 min)

• Praise (2 min)

• Trust, Deep (2 min)

• Fundraising- The Relationship Method (10 min)

• Celebration (1 min)

• Conflict Resolution (aka Relationship-Building) (10 min)

• Listening Tours, by Ian Tien (5 min)

• Love Meeting (5 min including video)

• Personal Info, Team - example (1 min)

• Trust: How to create it among peers (2 min)

• Mistake: Repair, Rewind, Redo (1 min)

• Difficult Conversations: how to have them (1 min)

Hiring

• Recruiting and Onboarding (15 min)

• Recruiting at ___ (30 min)

• Making the Offer (1 min)

• Compensation (3 min)

• Hiring Execs: External vs Internal (2 min)

• Onboarding a new hire (2 min)

• Teaching / Training (1 min)

• (4 min)

Firing

• Firing Well (updated) (5 min)

• • Difficult Conversations: how to have them (1 min)

  • Decision-making: separate decision from implementation (1 min)

• Comms, Internal: Announcing traumatic events (5 min)

• Exit Interview (2 min)

Mindfulness

• Fear and Anger give bad advice (3 min)

• Fear and Anger: how to shift of it (2 min)

• Emotions - name them (1 min)

• Fear vs Joy (3 min)

• Drama Triangle (and 100% Responsibility)

• Drama Triangle

• Sadness: how to process it (2 min)

• Consciousness Training options (3 min)

• Conscious Leadership (2 min to read, 15 min for the videos)

• The Work (Byron Katie)

• The Course by Dave Kashen (6 min)

• Possibility Mindset (3 min)

• Emotions: feel them (1 min)

• How to spot fear and anger in others (by Sabrina Wang)

Individual productivity

• On Time (3 min)

• Top Goal (CEO) (2 min) or Top Goal (investor) (2 min)

• GTD (5 min to read, 1 day to implement)

• BTA (Bias Towards Action) (10 min)

• Inbox Zero (2 min to read, 1 hour to implement)

• Inbox Zero: How EA or CoS can help you achieve it (20 min)

• Accountability Partner (1 min)

• Gratitude (3 min)

• Time Audit (2 min to read, 1 hour to do)

• Energy Audit (4 min to read; 45 min to do)

• Zone of Genius (3 min)

• Mental Health - how to maintain it (2 min)

• Restoration and Creativity: how to achieve them (3 min)

• No - how to say it (6 min)

• Meetings: don’t schedule them (1 min)

Health

• Sleep (3 min)

• Alex MacCaw on Health (1 min)

• Sam Altman on Sleep, Exercise and Nutrition

Team Productivity

• Meetings (16 min)

• • Meetings: How to make them effective and efficient (4 min) Video

  • Meeting guidance sheet (1 min)

  • Brainstorming: written (2 min)

  • Calendar Cadence (3 min)

  • Meetings: Exec Meeting: at Newfront (1 min)

  • Meeting: Exec Meeting: Department Update (1 min)

  • Meeting: Exec Team: Deconstructed (2 min)

  • Meetings: Reviews (Pipeline, Project/Business Unit, Cross-Departments) (2 min)

  • All Hands: Leadership and Inspiration: How to create it (6 min)

  • Leadership vs Team Leads Meeting (3 min)

  • Offsite (1 min)

  • Offsites, big (by Matthew Holbreich, CoS at Medable)

  • Meeting Tracker - example (2 min)

  • Transition: How to successfully transition a group to a new method (2 min)

  • Efficient Async Discussions (5 min)

  • How to Use the companyOS Software (4 min)

• Decision-Making (8 min)

• • Decision-making: separate decision from implementation (1 min)

  • Issue / Proposed Solution template

  • • Issue / Proposed Solution template (group)

    • Issue / Proposed Solution template (1-1)

  • Issue Identification (1 min)

  • Issues/Solutions Tracker, example

  • RAPID, example

  • RAPID template, example

  • RAPID Tracker, example

  • Agreement-Tracker: why you need one (3 min)

  • DRIs: Directly-Responsible Individuals (3 min)

  • Clean Escalate (2 min)

• 1-1s

• • 1-1 Template and Instructions

  • 1-1 Template (Sabrina Wang)

  • 1st 1-1 Meeting with Matt Mochary (5 min to read; 45 min to do)

  • 2nd (and beyond) 1-1 Meeting with Matt Mochary (2 min to read; 15 min to do)

• The basics

• • Mission, Vision, Values: How to create them (2 min)

  • • [PUBLIC] Mochary Method - Vision 2031 (example)

    • Brainstorming template for company outcomes and actions (template)

  • Values: how to create them (1 min)

  • Agreement-Tracker: why you need one (3 min)

  • Operations videos playlist (2 hours)

  • OKR Creation (6 min)

  • • OKR Tracker, example (2 min)

  • AORs (2 min)

  • Process Audit

  • • Processes Template

  • Personal Info, Team - example (1 min)

  • Grade Level Planning example (2 min)

  • Budgeting (2 min reading, 12 min video)

  • Performance Review (5 min)

• Motivating

• • Praise (3 min)

  • Star performers: How to keep them engaged and motivated (2 min)

  • Motivating your team (3 min)

  • • Magic Questions (1 min)

  • Motivation beyond Mission and Money

• Other

• • Amazon 6-pager: shareholder letter (10 min)

  • Amazon Playbook (2 min)

  • BTA (Bias Towards Action) (10 min)

  • Lord of the Flies (1 min)

  • Loudest voice in the room (1 min)

  • Manager: How to be a great one! (1 min)

  • Manager Training Basics - Mochary Method

  • Politics (2 min)

  • Scaling: Hire a “Manager Trainer” as COO (3 min)

  • Scale or not to Scale? (2 min)

  • Org Structure: Functional vs Business Unit (interview with Emmett Shear, CEO of Twitch, 1600 people) (YouTube version)

  • Zone of Genius map - venture firm (1 min)

CEO (role and team)

• CEO as fireman (1 min)

• CEO role (2 min)

• Chief of Staff (3 min)

• Biz Ops (3 min)

• CEO Team (3 min)

• Personal Chief of Staff: How to hire one (2 min)

• Parenting as a CEO (2 min)

For the COO/Chief of Staff

• Regina Gerbeaux’s Resources for Operators

• Help Execs Achieve Inbox Zero

• Help Execs Prioritize Work

• Onboard yourself in 30 days

• Hire, onboard, and work with an EA

• Using Asana as an agreements tracker

• How to build a killer internal wiki on Notion

• BTA (Bias Towards Action)

• Run efficient meetings that don’t suck

• Templates:

• • CoS Roadmap template

  • Process database template for internal wiki (How-Tos)

  • Magic Questions template

  • Notion company hub template

  • • To learn how to use, please read: Notion - Mochary Method setup

• Examples

• • Sample meeting doc: Engineering sync

  • Example of asynchronous discussion using Threads

  • Example of recapping feedback during meetings

Board

• Board of Directors (4 min)

• Board Meeting - Best Practice (5 min)

• Board Meetings (4 min)

Product

• Product: how to develop a new one in a scaled company (3 min)

• Product: What product to build? How to position it? (2 min)

• How to figure out product positioning, from April Dunford on Lenny’s podcast (1 min)

Engineering

• Engineering: How to increase speed and quality (1 min)

• Engineering excellence: Rubber Duck channels (2 min)

Marketing

• Marketing: Target Beachhead (Segment, Target, Promote) (2 min)

Sales

• Selling (6 min)

• See Relationship-building

• Sales to the Enterprise: how to scale it (1 min)

Feedback

• Feedback (15 min)

• • Feedback: Receiving: the 5 A’s (4 min)

  • Feedback Form 1-1

  • Feedback Form - Hot Seat

  • How to GIVE Feedback like an Obnoxious Jerk (by Alexis d'Amecourt)

  • Conscious Listening (by Dave Kashen)

• Board feedback with Matt Mochary (5 min)

• Exec Team feedback with Matt Mochary (6 min)

• Conflict Resolution (aka Relationship-Building) (10 min)

• Performance Review (5 min)

Communication

• Introductions: the double opt-in (3 min)

• Introduction for a job (1 min)

Fundraising

• Fundraising- The Relationship Method (10 min)

• Fundraising- Emergence Capital advice (traditional method) (15 min)

• Fundraising - late-stage: Brand or Price? (3 min)

• IPO, or not to IPO (3 min)

• IPO: Founder letter (2 min)

• IPO: message to your team (1 min)

• Liquidity Programs for the Company (3 min)

• Liquidity (4 min)

• Bank vs Brokerage (2 min)

Legal

• Legal (2 min)

• Legal - closing a round - cost and time (4 min)

Coach

• Coach recommendations (1 min)

• Coach - how to find one (2 min)

• Coach: hire one for the executive team (1 min)

Social Good

• Make Money, Have Fun, Do Good (2 min)

• Mochary Foundation (1 min)

Matt in action

• Videocast with Jason Calacanis (1h 20m)

• Podcast with Harry Stebbings (38 min)

FAQ

• Q&A with Matt Mochary (20 min)

• Mochary Method curriculum - private docs

Blog Posts

• Book List (5 min)

• The stock market is not the economy … explained (2 min)

• Getting America back to work … is not going to be easy! (1 min)

• COVID gives birth to something wonderful: virtual reunions (1 min)

• The new normal: remote only (2 min)

• COVID and the economy: What can you imagine? (3 min)

• Technology-Enabled Service Provider (TESP) (2 min)

• Milestones: What to be ready for (3 min)

• Bolt - Conscious Culture Playbook (a few hours)

• The Great Reshuffle (2 min)

• No Rules Rules (2 min for my learnings; 10 min for the full summary)

• Turn the Ship Around: “I intend to …” (2 min)

• Events in the world: how to address them?

• Notion - Mochary Method setup

1-1 meeting format

• 1-1 Template and Instructions

• 1-1 Template (Sabrina Wang)

• • Information-sharing with Matt Mochary

• 1st 1-1 Meeting with Matt Mochary (5 min to read; 45 min to do)

• 2nd (and beyond) 1-1 Meeting with Matt Mochary (2 min to read; 15 min to do)

• How to Use the companyOS Software (4 min)