Right people, right seats doesn't mean everyone eventually moves into a leadership role. It means finding the seat where each person does their best work and building a structure that makes those seats worth staying in. Create a path for people who want to grow as individual contributors. Create a separate path for people who want to lead. Reward both. Respect both. Pay both.
Read MorePositivity becomes toxic when it feels forced. When it ignores obvious problems. When it discounts what people are feeling or seeing. Most of the time it is not about morale. It is about discomfort. Leaders reach for positivity when they don't want to sit in the tension of a hard situation. If everything sounds upbeat, maybe the problem feels smaller. It doesn't.
Read MoreStrong cultures don't eliminate toxicity entirely. They detect it early and contain it fast. They have antibodies: clear values, frequent feedback, leaders who stay engaged even under pressure. The goal isn't perfection. It's resilience. Whether a single bad apple spoils the barrel is one of the clearest indicators of leadership quality
Read MoreWhen uncertainty hits, employees want answers. If they don’t get them, they’ll make up their own. Usually jumping to the worst-case scenario in the process. That speculation erodes trust and compounds anxiety.
Read MoreOne-on-ones aren't optional. They're not nice-to-haves. They're the most important meetings on your calendar. The leaders who master one-on-ones don’t just have happier teams. They have better results.
Read MoreBeing detail-oriented is often what gets you promoted. It’s how you earn trust, build credibility, and prove you can deliver. But once you step into a true leadership seat, especially at the executive level, those same instincts can become your biggest liability.
Read MoreMost leaders hate meetings because they still think their real work is somewhere else. It’s not. The meeting is the work. It’s where coaching happens. Where friction gets surfaced and conflicts resolved. Where your values show up. If you’re phoning it in or constantly rescheduling, that’s the signal you’re sending to everyone else. You don’t have to love meetings. But you do have to learn how to lead inside them
Read MoreIf 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?
Read MorePoor leadership costs companies revenue, time, staff, and customers. And the leaders at the very top aren’t the only ones that have an impact. Every supervisory role has the capacity to exceed goals and inspire stellar performances or to miss the mark and impede productivity. Building a leadership team that can help you achieve your goals requires careful and purposeful planning. I’ve had the opportunity to learn from my own successes and failures as a CEO as well as from my clients’ experiences.
Read MoreBecoming a better leader isn’t something that happens in a day, or even in a week. Building that set of skills requires intentional thought and effort. Understanding your innate leadership style can help you determine where to start. Once you’ve made an honest assessment of your strengths and weaknesses, you can begin to make change by playing to your strengths and minimizing or mitigating your weaknesses.
Read MoreStartups and Small Businesses sometimes find themselves at the edge of a chasm. With success in developing and growing their business, a stage is reached where they find that the "next step" is a big one! Trajectify partners with the entrepreneur to build momentum and trajectory to be able to cross the chasm.
We offer private and group (Mastermind) coaching and hold frequent events and seminars.
Trajectify is founded my Mike Krupit, veteran of eight startups. Mike has helped dozens of companies grow and mentored and advised hundreds more.
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