January 20, 2022

The Coaching Process: Coaching Your Team

January 20, 2022/ Mike Krupit

If you’ve worked with a good coach, you know how transformational the process can be. Your employees need that experience as well. They’ll grow, be more engaged employees, and become happier. Your business will be all the better for it.

If you’ve just seen yourself as their manager, you’re missing out on a big opportunity. Actually, a big requirement. Now more than ever — when people are changing jobs at an alarming rate and everyone’s reeling from all the uncertainty in our world — you need to keep your employees engaged.

January 03, 2022

How to Run a Successful Family Business

January 03, 2022/ Mike Krupit

Since I began Trajectify, I’ve had the opportunity to coach a number of family-owned businesses, from intergenerational companies to husband-and-wife teams. In some ways, they face the same challenges as any other business. They have to figure out how to maximize their cash flow, hire the right people, and scale their business.

Family-owned businesses also have their own particular set of challenges.

December 02, 2021

How to Build a Multimillion Dollar Business: Stories from Entrepreneurs Who’ve Done It

December 02, 2021/ Mike Krupit

What does it take to cross that golden line? We sat down with three long-time Trajectify clients to talk about how they became multimillion dollar businesses and what other entrepreneurs can learn from their success.

November 18, 2021

Stop Looking for a Technical Cofounder

November 18, 2021/ Mike Krupit

Some founders reach a point where they need to move beyond their MVP and provide greater value to their customers. Let’s talk about how founders often end up in a technical cofounder search, the problems with that approach, and what you can do instead.

September 08, 2021

The Most Common Limiting Beliefs of Entrepreneurs and How to Overcome Them

September 08, 2021/ Mike Krupit

Before we can move past our fear, we have to become detectives. We have to find our fear. Identifying our limiting beliefs is one of the most effective ways to figure out where the fear lives and then flush it out.

August 11, 2021

5 Simple Time Management Tips for Entrepreneurs

August 11, 2021/ Mike Krupit

Some of the distractions are new. The quest for productivity isn’t. Managing your time better (and thus reaching your goals more efficiently) is about developing two things: (1) self-awareness and (2) structures to support you.

June 30, 2021

Being a Solo Founder: How to Combat the Loneliness of Entrepreneurship

June 30, 2021/ Mike Krupit

When you’re going it alone as a founder, you might be missing some critical personal elements of running a business. And the absence of those supports can lead to loneliness.

May 19, 2021

When a Startup is No Longer a Startup — And Why It Matters

May 19, 2021/ Mike Krupit

The CEO rulebook is completely different from the founder rulebook. And once you’re not a startup anymore, you can’t keep acting like one. If you do, you’ll risk the success you’ve worked so hard to achieve.

April 27, 2021

These Are the Four Things You Need to Develop Your Leadership Team

April 27, 2021/ Mike Krupit

Whether you’re creating a full-fledged training program, helping a few high-potential individuals, or support a recently promoted manager, you need four things to support their development.

April 14, 2021

How to Develop Your Core Values (And Implement Them) in Six Steps

April 14, 2021/ Mike Krupit

Every organization has a culture, whether it was created intentionally or not. Developing and implementing your values puts you in control of that culture. Most importantly, it helps you identify who’s aligned with it and who’s not. Here’s how to create your core values — not just some words that you put on a wall or a website — but the actual tenets that underpin your organization’s culture.

February 03, 2021

How to Delegate Like a Boss

February 03, 2021/ Mike Krupit

At some point, that do-it-all person will have to stop doing and start delegating. Otherwise, they’ll begin to feel like they’re on a hamster wheel — doing what they’ve always done but suddenly getting nowhere. Making that shift is challenging. In fact, it’s one of the most difficult, yet important, transitions founders go through.

January 27, 2021

What Does a Good Business Coaching Relationship Look Like?

January 27, 2021/ Mike Krupit

The concept of a coach used to be reserved for athletes. Now you can hire a coach to help you with everything from weight loss or parenting to public speaking and career transitions. So with all these coaches running around, how do you know what’s a worthwhile investment of your time and money?

January 13, 2021

An Early-Stage Founder Belongs In the Trenches (Lesson #8 of 8 Lessons Growing 8 Companies)

January 13, 2021/ Mike Krupit

All those important lessons you learn over the course of a career can actually hurt you if you don’t know when to set them aside. You have to see when it’s not a time to be the seasoned CEO and instead lean into your role as the scrappy founder — even if this isn’t your first (or your seventh) rodeo.

September 02, 2020

How You Can Harness Workplace Conflict to Help Your Organization Thrive

September 02, 2020/ Mike Krupit

Conflict is inevitable. Everyone is different—different backgrounds, different scripts, different personalities, and different goals. Difference creates conflict. If we’ve learned anything from the last few months of civil unrest, it’s that embracing differences in our lives and in our organizations is critical. Workplace conflict will happen. By treating it as an opportunity for growth, we’ll help ourselves, our organizations, and our employees.

August 12, 2020

What to Look for in a Business Mentor and the Mentoring Relationship

August 12, 2020/ Mike Krupit

Mentorship is a deeper, long-term relationship between two people. Even if it doesn’t start out that way, it becomes so from time spent together and mutual care for each other.

The relationship with a mentor is a meaningful one. We reached out to our clients to get deeper insight into how having a mentor can impact people’s lives. A couple of stories stuck with us and showed the power of effective mentoring relationships.

August 05, 2020

Your Growth Strategy Stopped Working. Now What?

August 05, 2020/ Mike Krupit

Any successful business that’s been around for more than a few years has found themselves on that plateau, trying to figure out why their growth stalled or why they feel stuck. The plateau itself isn’t a problem. In fact, it may create an opportunity to look at your business, your product, or your market through new eyes.

June 17, 2020

Two Wrong Leaders Don’t Make a Right One (Lesson #5 of 8 Lessons Growing 8 Companies)

June 17, 2020/ Mike Krupit

The experience left a big impression on me. Leadership isn’t theoretical. There are real, perhaps even dire, consequences to poor leadership. Fudging it doesn’t work, and pretending that two wrongs add up to a right could end with you thanking your lucky stars that you don’t have to explain to your board how you blew up a BMW test engine.

June 10, 2020

Business Leadership and Anti-Racism

June 10, 2020/ Mike Krupit

As business leaders or owners, we can no longer remain silent about racism. I’ve avoided talking about it for a long time because it’s uncomfortable. I was scared if I spoke up, I might say the wrong thing or be seen as a racist. Silence is not an option, so I’m starting with an apology.

May 28, 2020

Is It Time to Hire a Leadership Coach?

May 28, 2020/ Mike Krupit

If it were up to me, everyone in a leadership position, or starting or building a business, would have a coach — not because I want to (or could) coach them all, but because leaders who have coaches are better leaders. At the same time, I recognize that every business leader is balancing dozens of competing priorities, now more than ever. Is it time for you to hire a leadership coach? A better question might be Are you fine staying right where you are?

May 19, 2020

Are You Displaying These Poor Leadership Qualities? Here's How to Change.

May 19, 2020/ Mike Krupit

Making the wrong choice doesn’t make you a poor leader. Being unable to make any choice because you’re trying to please everyone? That could. There are dozens of qualities that interfere with the ability to lead effectively. I’m sharing a few that I see most frequently and how to fix them.

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