KeenAlignment Blog | Employee Engagement (2)

Strategic Minded HR Elevates Organizational Effectiveness

by Margaret Graziano | Nov 27, 2015 | Consciously Hiring, Employee Engagement, Organizational Effectiveness, Workforce Productivity

Strategic Minded HR people act as Organizational Effectiveness consultants. They partner with Hiring Mangers to ensure the right people are on boarded into the right roles, for all the right reasons. Before any advertising is done, or any recruitment...

Philosophical Alignment is Key to Engaged Happy Employees

by Margaret Graziano | Nov 24, 2015 | Employee Engagement, conscious hiring, Employee Retention

When people are hired and on boarded into an organization that they are philosophically aligned with and they are hired into roles that are a natural self-expression of their strengths and talents, simply said, they perform—and they perform well.

Drivers of Engagement

by Margaret Graziano | Sep 10, 2015 | Employee Engagement

The number one reason people leave jobs is because of an ineffective relationship with their manager. People don’t leave companies or their jobs; they leave their managers. Now, this isn’t a universal truth, but it happens 70 percent of the time, as we...

Employee Involvement: What’s All The Fuss?

by Margaret Graziano | Aug 07, 2013 | Employee Attrition Rate, Employee Engagement, Employee Satisfaction, High Performance Team, High Performance Culture, Employee Performance Reviews, Employee Retention, Performance Management, Reduce Unwanted Turnover, Workforce Optimization, Retention Strategy, Recruitment Strategy, Talent Management, Talent Strategy, Workforce Strategy, Management Training

If people are the fuel for business engine, a high performing group of people is key for business success. Creating a Talent Strategy that puts people first encourages high performance. With studies, news anchors and special programming all geared around...

Bad Bosses Beware

by Margaret Graziano | Jul 30, 2013 | Employee Engagement, employee happiness, Unwanted turnover, bad bosses, Management Training

Employee happiness is at an all time low and Hiring Managers need to wake up and look at the cost on their bottom line. In the US alone we are facing a talent deficit of skilled workers to the tune of 50,000,000. Since good people are hard to come by and...

Performance Management

by Margaret Graziano | Feb 11, 2013 | Employee Engagement, Goal Achievement, Executive Coaching, Consultation, Employee Performance Reviews, leadership, Leadership Development, People Management, performance management, Performance Management, Performance Management Service, Talent Management, Talent Strategy, Accountability, Management Training, Managing People

Within an organization, making certain each role is producing at or above expectations can be extremely time-consuming and frustrating, especially for new managers. We have developed a systematic process for putting the right people in the right jobs,...

Jake’s Take: How Bad Managers Bungle Employee Engagement

by Margaret Graziano | Oct 10, 2012 | Employee Engagement, High Performance Team, Executive Coaching, developing managers, Employee Retention, Employment Selection, management coaching, Organizational Alignment, Organizational Effectiveness, Talent Management, Talent Strategy, Workforce Strategy, coaching managers, Management Training

Why do people leave your employ? Why do they think about it? Various estimates indicate that somewhere between 60-70 percent of employees are not personally invested in their workplace. What does it take to engage people so that work is exciting, not a...

If the Job Could Talk...

by Margaret Graziano | Feb 03, 2011 | behavioral interview, Behavioral Interviews, Better Hiring, Employee Engagement, get hired, Hiring, Conscious Hiring, Executive Coaching, Executive Recruitment, Hire better, employee performance, Employee Performance Reviews, Employee Retention, Employment Selection, Hiring for Start Ups, Hiring Process, HR Best Practices, Human Resources, job performance, Keenhire, leadership, Leadership Development, Managing Change, margaret graziano, On-Boarding, Performance Management, staffing, TTI, Organizational Effectiveness, People ROI, performance reviews, return on investment, ROI, Personality Assessments, Recruiting, Recruitment Strategy, Recruitment Training, Return on Hiring Investment, RPI, RPO, Succession Planning, Talent Management, War for Talent, Workforce Performance Management, Assessments, HR, HR Strategy, Human Capital Management, Human Resources Management Consulting, Management Training, Organizational Development, Recruitment Process Improvement

By Bill J. Bonnstetter JOB TALK If a job could talk, it would explain precisely what was necessary to achieve superior performance. We could ask it to tell us about the: Knowledge a person needs, Personal attributes required to drive success, Rewards...

Acing the HR Interview

Join Margaret Graziano and the Northern California Human Resource Association this Friday at 10:00 a.m. for a fabulous, informative and inspiring presentation specifically geared towards Human Resources professionals on Acing the HR Interview.

Performance Management - Make Your Management Impact Wisely.

by Margaret Graziano | Aug 09, 2010 | Behavioral Interviews, Employee Engagement, Conscious Hiring, Employee Retention, Employment Selection, Hiring for Start Ups, Hiring Process, performance management, Performance Management, workforce management performance management., Workforce Performance Management

All great Managers and Leaders want to run a high performing group, develop and inspire their people and take their team to the next level.

Recent Survey Indicates HUGE Amount of Disengaged Employees

by Margaret Graziano | Apr 29, 2010 | Employee Development, Employee Engagement, Conscious Hiring, Employee Retention, HR Best Practices, Performance Management, Reduce unwanted turnover, Talent Management, HR Strategy, Human Capital Management

Santa Monica, Calif., April 29, 2010 – Escalating demands of the American workplace – from staff cuts and tighter budgets to increasingly difficult workloads – have created an environment where employees don’t feel they are valued appropriately by...

Does Your Recovery Strategy Include a Talent Management Strategy?

by Margaret Graziano | Jan 31, 2010 | Employee Engagement, Recruitment, retention, "selection hiring process", Talent Management, Unwanted turnover

If the reports are true and employee disengagement is on the rise, when 25% of your Key Contributors, Mission Critical players and Next level leaders become the departed, who will take their place?