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Being an effective leader of people in today’s world seems to be much more complicated than in years past. In the previous century, for the vast majority, work was approached as a means for survival. The level of employee engagement did not dictate how...

In today’s competitive race for talent, most organizations know that they are only as good as the people who make up their human system. Hiring and Talent Acquisition is to Organizational Culture as a solid Foundation is to the Stability of a Building....

My Breakthrough to Fulfillment – Every Day is One Step Forward Last week I spoke to a Public Relations group out of New York City, and the conversation stirred a whole new level of exploring about my career and the difference I am here to make.

Aligned and optimized employees are engaged employees.

As the steward of your organization’s people practices, you know people truly are your only competitive advantage.

Engagement, accountability and purpose are all table stakes required to build a high-performance team, and all three of those requirements are grossly suffering across most of today’s organizations. A solid workplace culture exists when people come...

Most of us spend the majority of our time at the office or actively working inside or as part of a human work system. Whether we are conscious to it or not, the corporate culture of an organization can make or break how we feel about the organization and...

Most often leaders do not consciously create or intend on shaping a corporate work culture that winds up constraining or restricting organizational growth, in fact most leaders who are faced with the daunting task of taking on transforming the...

Maximizing your businesses potential is vital to staying competitive in your industry. As a leader of your business, you must find and utilize people investments, making them a key contributor. This will keep your business competitive, creating an...

Modern hiring practices are becoming more robotic and automatic. Many resumes are filled with keywords and not much work experience. There’s a deficiency in knowledgeable and trained individuals. The idea of organizational culture is absent. The process...

Employee engagement is suffering in the workplace. Excitement and respect among employees are absent. It results from mis-hires and from a lack of similar values between employees and the company that hires them. It’s becoming a problem.

Keeping the wrong employee negatively affects a company’s culture. Financial loss, diminished sales, workplace hostility and micromanagement are the consequences of retaining a mis-hire. These ramifications may not only hurt your company in the...

Poor hiring affects workplace culture. Your core values, financial risk, employee morale, and workplace productivity are all at risk when a company hires poorly.As a result, there are damaged workplace relationships. There’s an overall loss of business...

You must decide if people are your competitive advantage, and if they are, you must strategically cause a corporate transformation, adopt a talent mindset and lead the way. Once you adopt and engage the rest of the leadership and management team in a...

Improving employee performance and raising the engagement of the workforce requires both strong leadership and a constructive culture. 21st Century Leaders must pave the path for highly-functioning progressive teams to perform. Developing the level of...

Project Aristotle - What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build The Perfect Team. It is not about how smart you are, or how much you know. It is how you work with people, how you access their trust and their talent. Taking a look at Neuroscience and how...

About the Program This virtual program has been HRCI approved for 16 credits (16 hours) The KeenHire™ Behavioral Interviewing Certification empowers corporate hiring authorities and managers to delve deep into the process and experience the impact that...

Many companies—from multinational mega-corporations to neighborhood markets—are still using outdated hiring techniques. Clinging to the ways of the past when constructing a workforce leads to high turnover, stagnant engagement from staff and quarterly...

Conscious hiring is about creating workforce alignment, where employees choose to work for the organization because they are excited about the work, and employers hire and nurture the best employees, creating a better bottom line, lower turnover, and...

Employee selection (and the use of assessments) is one of the fastest-growing sectors in human resources. Assessment tools of various sorts are used to evaluate everything from candidate motivations, values and behaviors to communication style,...

A 21st Century Workforce requires 21st Century performance expectations. What is traditionally referred to as a job description is, in the KeenAlignment training, referred to as the CPR. The Comprehensive Position Requirements document focuses on the...