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Engagement, accountability and purpose are all table stakes required to build a high-performance team, and all three of those...

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...

Most often leaders do not consciously create or intend on shaping a corporate work culture that winds up constraining or restricting...

Maximizing your businesses potential is vital to staying competitive in your industry. As a leader of your business, you must find and...

Modern hiring practices are becoming more robotic and automatic. Many resumes are filled with keywords and not much work experience....

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. Key words on a resume and the pressure to fill a job quickly often create disfunction in the workplace. It creates poor hiring. There is a lack of employee engagement and more emphasis on leadership to increase workplace productivity. It crea

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 short-term, it may also have severe consequences on the future of your company. When your company decides to keep a mis-hire longer than expected, it sets off a chain of events that ultimately hurts your company and your employees. Lo

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 revenue. Avoiding poor hires will not only prevent these mistakes, it will prevent a business from going under. That is why it essential to understand the basic principles of a company. You must evaluate how an employee will a

Why do people say one thing and another person hears another? Why when team members witness the Boss misstep do they walk away...

You must decide if people are your competitive advantage, and if they are, you must strategically cause a corporate transformation, adopt...

Improving employee performance and raising the engagement of the workforce requires both strong leadership and a constructive culture....

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...

About the Program This virtual program has been HRCI approved for 16 credits (16 hours) The KeenHire™ Behavioral Interviewing...

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 reports in the red. In some cases, it is as if they are staffed by a host of HR drones, these businesses are going about the practice of hiring in a completely automatic, unconscious manner. Solving the hiring problems of the 21

ConsciousHiring™ is about creating workforce alignment, where employees choose to work for the organization because they are excited...

Employee selection (and the use of assessments) is one of the fastest-growing sectors in human resources. Assessment tools of various...

The third & fourth secret: Active listening & being curious. Being present is something many working professionals struggle with. The...

With the generational and workforce demographic challenges adversely impacting everybody’s ability to attract, hire, engage, develop and...

T rain Every person, at every level in an organization needs some level of training and development. The rate of innovation is accelerating at a mind-numbing pace, and no matter what role a person holds, the skills of today will become insufficient for the work of tomorrow. Whether it is in the area of people readiness, a deeper technical expertise, management training or an ability to take feedback as constructive guidance; the development of the workforce must be a core te

Employee Engagement There is tremendous chatter in the media about the lack of employee engagement in the workplace and a large emphasis in leadership circles on raising workforce productivity—both of which can be solved through a ConsciousHiring™ mindset. When the majority of people on a project team are high quality engaged workers; it raises the energy and output of the group, and when the opposite occurs, it lowers the energy and output of the work. Most people are like s