Keen Insights

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...

Choosing Your Next Talent Acquisition Partner Wisely

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....

7 Steps in Creating a High Performance Work Culture

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...