Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul Matt Mochary & Faith Meyer on Culture Building, Leadership and Growth
Active Listening
- Make people feel heard by repeating their words back to them.
- This builds trust and makes them feel understood, which opens them up to your message.
Addressing Team Issues
- Address work quality issues and moonlighting by focusing on the emotional side.
- Frustration, fear, and anger can stem from unmet goals, IP concerns, and perceived lack of effort.
Building a Positive Culture
- Ask your team what would make them feel good and inspired at work through written brainstorms and upvotes.
- Discuss top ideas verbally, repeating back their points to ensure understanding and create actionable steps.
“You must succeed. This company cannot take care of its people, unless the company itself is succeeding. So you can't have bloat, you can't have dead-weight. You need everybody to be at the tip, top shape, tip, top form, really pushing like superstars do.”
— Faith Meyer
This week Sachit (@sachitgupta) chats with Matt Mochary (@mattmochary), CEO and Coach and Faith Meyer (@FaithKMeyer), certified Executive and CEO coach at Mochary Method — A company that provides the practical tools that a CEO needs to be an effective leader.
Matt is a CEO coach primarily dealing with heads of tech investment firms and companies on how to be exceptional leaders and build the best organizations possible. Faith, on the other hand, is a CEO & Executive Coach with Mochary Method and is passionate about helping people tap into their fullest potential.
The trio has an amazing discussion that goes all the way from coaching Sachit live, to deep dives on outstanding company cultures, leadership, team behaviors, and the importance of joy in a company. You won't want to miss this!
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[00:00] Introduction
[01:10] The benefits of having deep friendships with your clients
[03:55] How to create a healthy boundary with your coaching clients
[06:15] Live coaching session: Sachit's frustrating experience building the A-Team of podcast creation
[15:20] Creating a good culture that everybody wants to be a part of
[17:00] How to make your people feel good and inspired
[21:15] Great leaders show their people that they genuinely care
[22:55] Examples of companies that have successfully built great cultures
[28:00] Changing and upgrading your team's behavior
[34:25] How to create a culture of transparency from scratch
[39:20] Ways to create joy at work and spark a culture of happiness in your team
[45:30] Why every leader needs to conduct an energy audit
[52:52] Is it possible to train an EA to run your business?
[01:05:55] The two types of people in the world
[01:07:35] The art and science of coaching
[01:13:22] Matt and Faith share the thing about coaching that brings them joy
[01:19:50] What coaching is and what coaching is not
[01:22:45] Common coaching complains and how Faith handles them
[01:23:45] Understanding the delegation trajectory and how leadership evolves over time
[01:27:30] The main idea behind a growth spiral
[01:31:50] How businesses can act as a force for good
[01:34:00] Parting thoughts
Resources
Heard: how to make people feel it (2 min)
Motivating your team (3 min)
Brainstorming written (2 min)
Loudest voice in the room (1 min)
Energy Audit (3 min)
CEO role (2 min)
Onboarding a new hire (3 min)