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Keynote Speaking from Margaret Graziano

 

Margaret Graziano is a torchbearer in the staffing and recruitment industries. Her visionary ability, astute knowledge of full life cycle talent management, and her tenure in the field positions her far ahead of the human capital innovation curve. In the early 2000′s Graziano shifted her mindset from “recruiter working to make a placements” to “consultant committed to building extraordinary workforces.” She added a talent management division to KeenHire, created Conscious Hiring™, and significantly invested in her own personal and professional development. She utilizes her certifications in organizational development, behavioral interviewing, psychometric assessment usage, role analysis and employee retention to create curriculum and programs that elevate KeenHire’s ability to hire and retain the right people for their customers.

Margaret speaks on a number of current and pressing issues relative to hiring, leadership, retention, and selection in the professional world. Now more than ever it has become an absolute necessity to gain and utilize valuable industry knowledge. Through countless hours of research, education and experience, Margaret brings her unique point of view and deep industry background to you. As for specialties – well – she has many. Take a look:

• Talent Strategy 3.0
• 21st Century Leadership
• Conscious Hiring™
• Employee Retention
• Hiring Better Salespeople
• Organizational Development
• Maximizing Your Effectiveness
• Strategic Planning
• Succession Planning
• Recruitment Process Outsourcing

 

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Meet The Founder

Margaret Graziano, CPC, CTS

 

• Named “Chicago Woman Business Owner of the Year”
• National Association of Women Business Owners, 2004
• Named “Influential Woman in Business”
• The DuPage Business Ledger, 2003

Margaret Graziano is the CEO and Sr. Managing partner of Keen Talent Management, a recruitment & talent management solutions firm that partners with growth bound companies to maximize their people ROI.

Ms. Graziano has worked in the human capital industry since 1983, and has been coaching business leaders in implementing a conscious-hiring process and high performing recruitment and talent acquisition, retention and talent management strategies since 1999.

She has long-term successful partnerships with international and emerging, mission driven companies with commitments to hiring philosophically aligned stakeholders. Companies attracted to adopting Margo’s best practices are firms who know that the life of their company depends on the people inside. Keen has successfully served business leaders in the medical education, training & education, customer centric software, consumer goods, foods, health & fitness, high touch, professional services, association and healthcare industries.

 

About Us

KeenHire Talent Management

 

We help our customers select, hire, develop, manage and retain
highly qualified people with specialized skills in customer interfacing roles.

 

Webinars

AAs experts in the “people business,” it’s our job to share our knowledge with the world. Our commitment is to positively impact the industry, empower stronger employee-employer relationships, and transform the way businesses interact with their people. We do this on the corporate level, independent professional level, and the candidate level.

We help businesses scale for growth and hire key contributors in customer-facing roles

We give industry professionals the tools and knowledge they need to hire right

We unite highly skilled, highly qualified candidates in jobs they can (will) succeed at

And the best part? We love teaching…

Behavioral Interview Training & Certification

About the Program

This virtual program has been HRCI approved for 16 credits (16 hours)

The KeenHire™ Behavioral Interviewing Certification empowers corporate hiring authorities and managers to delve deep into the process and experience the impact that effective targeted selection and behavioral interviewing has on a companies’ ability to secure and retain top talent.

Join us for this provocative, insightful and fun program that encompasses every aspect of targeted selection and behavioral interviewing.

Let’s face it; in the world right now, your internal talent is one of your only competitive advantages. For your company to sustain its growth and be a leader in industry it is critical that you hire difference markers who have the capacity to achieve the companies’ goals and objectives.

KeenView™ Behavioral Interviewing Certification

KeenHire empowers HR Professionals, corporate hiring authorities and managers to experience the impact that effective behavioral interviewing has on a company’s ability to secure and retain top talent. Through our KeenView Behavioral Interviewing Certification, we train you to implement a conscious interviewing process that saves your company time, money and effort while engaging your high potential candidates from the beginning.

 

Course Objectives for KeenView Behavioral Interviewing Certification

• Develop a fundamental understanding and appreciation for why most bad hiring decisions are made in the first ten minutes of the interview.
• Learn the foundation behind behavioral interviewing, and why diligence is essential when bringing on new people.
• Gain insight to uncover the key performance indicators for each role
• Delve into all facets of what drives peak performance -motivations, ways of being, ways of thinking, and modes of interacting
• Gain prowess in creating behavioral interviewing models and selecting questions that target the right fit.
• Learn what to listen for in the interview to identify the candidate with the right behaviors for your position.
• Receive your certification in behavioral interviewing which includes; benchmarking, behavioral selection and behavioral interpretation

Overview of the Behavioral Certification Process

Step 1: Attend a 2-day live or 4-week virtual 16 hour training program
Step 2: Audit 3 Behavioral Interviews conducted by a certified KeenHire Consultant
Step 3: Conduct 3 Behavioral Interviews audited by a certified KeenHire Consultant
Step 4: Take the Final Certification Exam

Contact KeenHire for more information on our upcoming Behavioral Interviewing Certification Sessions.

Additional Products

Can’t make it to training? Contact our team to purchase the following tools and learn on your own:
PowerPoint slides for Targeted Behavioral & Competency selection
Manual for Targeted Behavioral & Competency selection

 

KeenHire™ Recruiting Training

KeenHire™ Recruitment and Staffing Training

 

Recruitment Training – Programs/Seminars/Workshops

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“You must play BOLDLY to WIN.”
- Arnold Palmer

 

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The name of the game is Trust & Quality & Integrity. Building trust comes from building great relationships and delivering on what you say you will. Attracting and representing solid candidates takes a keen eye & ear, a good sense of evaluation and solid relationship building skills.

You will create structures for search & selection that catapult your ability to continually bring forth the best to your customers. Planning your search, screening, interviewing, evaluating applicants & effectively communicating with the right candidates will empower you in your candidate partnership building and leverage your power to produce enduring results.

 

Hiring Manager Training & Coaching

Jack Welch speaks, writes and leads from the philosophy that companies need to hire people that can clearly execute on their vision or they simply won’t get where they trying to go.

Hiring Managers Aren’t Trained to Hire Right, Yet They’re Held Accountable for Results

Just like any other business skill or core competency, the ability to effectively identify and select the right candidate and to develop them into a true difference maker is learned over time. Your vice presidents, directors, and managers run your business every day. Much more infrequently, they have to make a hiring decision. It’s therefore quite natural that most hiring authorities simply haven’t had the practice needed to excel at targeted selection. So what happens? Gut decisions are made. It’s like buying a car for the paint job, the slick tires and the curb appeal, without a clear understanding of what’s truly under the hood. Then you go to work with your new hire and realize that his personality and talent for communication just can’t make up for his inability to be effective on the job.

KeenHire Helps You Change That

KeenHire™ Recruiting Training

KeenHire™ Recruitment and Staffing Training

 

Recruitment Training – Programs/Seminars/Workshops

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“You must play BOLDLY to WIN.”
- Arnold Palmer

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Emerging Leaders Coaching

Over the next 5-8 years, there will be a projected loss of 45% of competent leaders who will be leaving their roles in business for retirement. If not dealt with appropriately and swiftly, leadership gaps can widen beyond repair.

Our coaches have the primary intention to further the goals of your organization by developing and working with next-level managers, emerging leaders and executives. We set your company up to up harvest and grow talent for the next generation of leadership, which will improve retention, engagement and productivity.

We identify emerging leaders, and we develop them using a proven process that determines how closely values and behaviors align. Succession planning is the single most important factor when it comes to scaling effectively. This means that leveraging and retaining your top talent are both essential to sustainability and success.