Keen Insights

The Sinking Ship and How To Stop It

There’s no denying that every company goes through ups and downs. There are times of prosperity and abundance and times of scarcity and desperation. For employees who are lucky enough to be present for the abundance, the stress of the difficult times...

Leading in Times of Uncertainty

Cultural Alignment: Developing a Peak Performance Culture

An Evolving List of COVID-19 Resources for Leaders

Collectively, we are relying on one another to exist in our new normal. And an abundance of our community members, partners, colleagues and friends are using this time to provide support.We've curated the resources that have resonated with us and...

Connection - A Message from Our Founder

March 2020 will forever live in all of our memories as a game changer.

Using Liberating Structures To Promote Inclusivity and Engagement

Connect Without Connecting

Physical Distance and Covid-19 Originally posted by our partners at Leadership Circle As the world continues to learn more about COVID-19 and more about how the virus is spread, many leaders are navigating the confusing waters of how we connect without...

An In-Depth Look at HR’s Role in Employee Engagement

by KeenAlignment | Feb 03, 2020 | Employee Engagement
The human resources department, colloquially referred to as HR, should be at the center of a company’s efforts to improve employee engagement. Because companies are becoming more culture-focused, and many are gathering data on how engagement affects...

Ignite Culture by Creating a Compelling Vision

The best way to improve employee engagement and create a winning corporate culture is to articulate the purpose and mission of the organization in a way that inspires people to be all in. That being said, gaining employee buy-in takes more than a steady...

21st Century Leadership [INFOGRAPHIC]

At KeenAlignment, our philosophy is to introduce best practices in leadership and management and to allow participants to self-select the approach that demonstrates their natural core strengths and maximizes their effectiveness. While we do not subscribe...

4 Mistakes Companies Make When Tackling Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is often considered the heartbeat of an organization. It shapes culture, influences the rise and fall of productivity, and measures employee happiness. Our internal compass influences our behaviors and actions based on our personal...

5 Elements of an Award Winning Culture

Renowned work cultures don’t happen by accident. Organizations with healthy, winning cultures are purposeful in designing, creating, and nurturing an environment where employees feel valued, are productive, and enjoy coming to work. The magic behind a...

Work Culture Expectations vs. Reality

Far too many companies of varying sizes today are hampered by the fact that employees’ cultural reality does not meet their expectations. As a result, managers, Human Resources teams, parents, spouses, significant others and friends all are hearing this:

Webinar: Using Analytics to Humanize Hiring

Join us tomorrow for our webinar on "Using Analytics to Humanize Hiring" at 7am PDT/10am EDT.

8 Steps to Transform your Corporate Culture

The engagement level of your workforce expands beyond the limits of offering tangibles such as a great benefits package, competitive market rates, flexible work schedules and challenging projects. Your company culture is truly your competitive advantage.

7 Keys to Being an Effective Leader: Part 2

Turning Breakdowns into Breakthroughs

7 Keys to Being an Effective Leader: Part 1

Often leaders of every persona, ranging from the altruist leading a non-profit, to the competitive capitalist leading a fast-growing tech organization, strive for the answer to the question, “How can I be more effective?�? While most leaders want to get...

Five Ways to Keep Millennial Employees Engaged at Work

Millennial employees are three times more likely to change jobs than their non-millennial counterparts, according to a recent Gallup report on millennials in the workplace. This turnover comes at a high price, costing the U.S. economy an estimated $30.5...

Cultural Alignment [INFOGRAPHIC]

The life of your company depends on the culture you inspire.

Six Myths of Employee Engagement

With today’s global ability to produce carbon copy technology and business models, people truly are a company’s only competitive advantage. Businesses that want to accentuate and optimize their competitive talent advantage focus on employee engagement...

HR Pros: Your Insight is Critical to Strategic Growth

Today’s workforce is more disengaged than at any other time in history. It could be because of the generational shift from boomers to millennials, or it could be because people are generally disenchanted with society — whether it’s politics, religion,...

5 Keys to Building an Aligned and Purposeful Workforce

In today’s disjointed world, most people say they feel disconnected and apathetic in regards to their jobs. With all the negative noise streaming in from multiple modalities, people are often overwhelmed with demotivating and disturbing messages. These...

Maximize HR Leadership Effectiveness [INFOGRAPHIC]

In the conscious hiring process, candidates are interviewed and assessed for their ability and aptitude in those important competencies, as well as for their match fit in terms of purpose, values, and behaviors. If they naturally possess the key traits,...

The HR Department of the New Millennium

Four Skills to Compete in the New Human Resources Landscape Throughout the last decade it has become painfully apparent that while most CEOs recognize there is a drastic talent optimization problem, they have absolutely no idea how to fix it, nor time to...

3 Ways to Improve Your Leadership IQ

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...