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Comprehensive Role Analysis: The Lifeline of Performance
Employment turnover cost the US economy a trillion dollars last year. What is it costing your company? The estimated costs of a poor hire run from three to seven times a person’s salary, especially in sales or management. With stiff competition, costs rising and margins shrinking, no company can afford $300,000 or more per bad hire. Your workforce is fuel for the business engine.Imagine how your business could perform if you were empowered to create the workforce you always w
Aug 20, 20132 min read
Your Job Is Not Who You Are!
I get the coolest daily emails – this one struck a big cord with me today! Your job is not who you are, your car is not who you are, your...
Aug 19, 20131 min read
Recruiting-Resume/Digital Profile Checklist
Regardless of where you find candidates, it is important to be aware of the power behind a Resume or these days, the candidates’ Digital Identity. How can you best utilize the digital identity and or resume to your advantage? In the early days of ConsciousHiring™ we had a Resume Red Flag check list. While many elements of that check list still matter, the way we interpret those elements needed to shift to reflect the new world we are living in. It starts with creating a matc
Aug 19, 20133 min read


Stakeholder Alignment And Business Strategy
An effective business strategy needs more than an arbitrary directive from the CEO. Developing and implementing an effective strategy...
Aug 13, 20133 min read
Employee Involvement: What’s All The Fuss?
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 the lack of employee engagement savvy business leaders are working diligently to harness the power of employee engagement and unleash the potential of their workforce. Employees who are respected, valued and motivated to perf
Aug 7, 20133 min read


Is Employee Retention An American Fable?
Never before have US companies had a harder time keeping their employees ALIVE and PRESENT at work. Maybe this FREE Agent mindset people are talking about has some real perks for both sides of the equation. I have been studying employment and work-place dynamics for over twenty years and one could say that I have seen my fair share of “best places to work” as well as, my fair share of “where is the excape hatch” places to work. If a hire is made and it is not a fit, then i
Jul 30, 20133 min read
Margaret Graziano Receives Industry Innovator Award
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10977600.htm
Jul 30, 20131 min read
Bad Bosses Beware
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...
Jul 30, 20133 min read


ConsciousHiring™ – NOW Available To Everyone!
For over five years I have been working to perfect the ConsciousHiring™ process. What started as a 26 step job requisition, candidate...
Jun 17, 20132 min read
Employee Development
Employee development and training means we invests in our people and help you to do the same. We provide a systematic and integrated...
Feb 26, 20131 min read
New Manager Training
The difference between success and failure is simple. It’s all about execution; before, during and after the solution has been applied. KeenHire’s New Manager Training program works with you to design, implement and reinforce new supervisor and new manager training programs that result in increased performance, organizational productivity, increased effectiveness of strategic initiatives and an even greater capacity for workforce engagement and retention of your top talent
Feb 25, 20132 min read
ConsciousHiring™ Training
Let’s face it. Your internal talent is probably your ONLY competitive advantage. For your company to grow and be an industry leader,...
Feb 19, 20132 min read


ConsciousHiring™
The Strategic Approach to Hiring the Right People. More than any other period in history, hiring the right person for any key role has become increasingly important for building, growing, and scaling a successful company. There is no magic “talent pool” to drop your line into that’s going to allow you to put the perfect person in that chair. There are simply too many bottom-feeders disguised as trophy-winners. That is, unless you’re using the ConsciousHiring™ process. With th
Feb 11, 20132 min read


Organizational Assessment
No matter what your industry is, your business operates on multiple levels that are crucial to bottom-line success. The effectiveness of...
Feb 11, 20132 min read
Employee Retention Strategy
Whether you are an emerging start up or established midsized company, employee retention is most likely a nagging concern. For most...
Feb 11, 20131 min read
Recruiting Millennials? Keep it Social and Keep it Simple
Recruiting millennials takes economy of communication and a compelling message, and it also takes relationship building. This is the...
Nov 1, 20122 min read
Jake’s Take: How Bad Managers Bungle Employee Engagement
Why do people leave your employ? Why do they think about it? Various estimates indicate that somewhere between 60-70 percent of...
Oct 10, 20122 min read


Margaret on Human Capital & Talent Management
Listen to KeenHire’s CEO Margaret Graziano on what’s hot in Human Capital and Talent Management – Silicon Valley Talk Radio – Saturday...
Aug 31, 20121 min read


What Can Happen When You Hire The Wrong People
Have you ever heard the saying that, “a play is only ever as good as the worst actor in it”. Well… the same applies to business. Your...
Nov 22, 20112 min read


Employee Retention is Everything
You have found a star employee. They fit the profile of the job perfectly, the resume is superb, in action on the job they are...
Nov 21, 20112 min read
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