Welcome to the Project Coordinator Program¶
You're here because you've joined Cortado Group as a project coordinator — the operational backbone of the engagement teams that help our clients turn revenue from a guessing game into a system. This site is your home base for the next 90 days.
What this is¶
The Project Coordinator Onboarding Program is a four-week structured curriculum followed by progressive engagement work, mentored end-to-end by Matt Trotter. The curriculum is grounded in Cortado's PMO canon, the Consultant Development Program, the Cortado Engagement Methodology, and the GROW coaching model. Every lesson is tied to something you'll actually do on a live engagement.
Why you're here¶
A great project coordinator is the difference between a smooth engagement and a chaotic one. By the end of week 12, without supervision, you should be able to:
- Spin up a brand-new client Asana project from our GTM Project Plan Template
- Run a weekly internal status meeting using BLUF and the 4 Blockers pattern
- Draft a Steerco deck shell from our template and route it for refinement
- Onboard a new 1099 contractor end-to-end (paperwork → access → kickoff)
- Maintain a Box folder for an engagement that any other consultant can navigate cold
You won't be in front of clients in your first 30 days. You'll be a silent observer in client meetings, watching how engagement managers run the room.
How the program flows¶
| Phase | Focus | Timing | What you'll walk away with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Who Cortado is and how we think | Days 1–5 | Explain Cortado in 90 seconds |
| Week 2 | The toolkit (Asana, Box, Slack) | Days 6–10 | Operating our tools without help |
| Week 3 | RevOps domain fluency | Days 11–15 | Reading an engagement charter and seeing the pattern |
| Week 4 | Doing the job | Days 16–20 | Owning the operational pack for an engagement |
| Weeks 5–12 | Live engagement, mentored | Ongoing | The five capabilities above, demonstrated |
How to use this site¶
Use the menu bar at the top of every page to move between sections. Each tab — Welcome, First 30 Days, The Job, Mentor & Operator, Initiative — is a top-level section. Click a tab and the left sidebar will fill in with the pages inside it.
A few habits that will serve you well:
- Start with Welcome, then First 30 Days → 30-Day Checklist. Tick items as you complete them with your onboarding mentor.
- Open The Job for the templates and primers you'll use day-to-day on engagements.
- Mentor & Operator is mostly for Matt — but skim the GROW Mentor Playbook so you know what your coaching conversations are designed to do.
- Initiative explains why this program exists and how it fits into Cortado's broader PM Excellence effort.
When you're stuck¶
In order:
- Try for 15 minutes on your own.
- Search Box — most things are documented somewhere. The PMO Site (https://sites.google.com/cortadogroup.com/pmo/) is the canonical place for terminology, presentation checklists, and PM reference material.
- Ask in
#internsor#revops. - Ask Matt (your onboarding mentor) directly.
The bar for "is this question worth asking" is much lower than you think. We'd rather you ask quickly than spin for hours.
Welcome aboard. Open the Welcome tab and let's get going.