KeenHire Blog by Margaret Graziano

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 unstoppable and their experience means that you have little to do in terms of nurturing them into their new role.

The issue is... how do you keep hold of them? How do you perfect employee retention in a competitive world where everyone is looking to hire the best and steal the best of your company from under your feet?

The answer is that you contact the employee retention specialists at KeenHire so that they can do a full assessment of your employee retention techniques and your employee assessment / performance management schemes and set you off on the road to employee retention success as soon as possible.

What is the main priority of the employee retention experts at KeenHire?
At KeenHire, we help a variety of different companies find the best employees for their businesses. We show the managers of those companies how to become employers who really “choose” their employees, instead of being one of the managers who employs without care in order to fill gaping holes in the company as soon as possible.

Contact our Recruitment Experts... Job Boards Just Aren’t Enough

If you have been advertising a position within your company for a significant period of time already (a few months of more) and you have had no success in filling that position, something is wrong with regards to your human resources approach or the way in which your human resources personnel are working in this area.

This is the perfect time to contact the recruitment specialists at KeenHire so that we can help you find a solution for your recruitment problem fast.

Sometimes contracting someone to fill a very important, integral role within your company can take a very long time. When the job that you are advertising is one of the most important within the company, decisions should never be taken lightly and it is hard to find effective employees for these integral roles, because they are, more often than not, already employed elsewhere.

However, if the position that you are trying to fill is one further down the ranks in the company’s hierarchical structure and you have had no success over a number of months, there is something that needs to be fixed in terms of your recruitment approach and it needs to be fixed fast.

Performance Management Tips for Virtual Employees

 

The tide is turning, the wind is changing and the world of work is becoming all about one person with his / her computer, doing the job from whatever part of the world they happen to be in at the time. But how do you performance management your virtual employees?

For many companies, hiring virtual employees is the perfect solution financially. There is no need for office space, therefore no rent needs to be paid and no materials bought. Most virtual employees come with their own home-built office of lap-top, phone and other necessities, which means that there are no expenses to be paid for there either.

What’s more, it is becoming very common for first world country businesses to outsource their work to virtual employees living in places like Latin America or India because the employees come at a cheaper rate too.

So what’s the downfall? Why isn’t everyone hiring virtual employees? What isn’t the office space already a thing of the ancient past?

One simple reason...

KeenHire finds the Best Interviewing and Employee Assessment Tools

Do psychometric interviewing tools and tests really work? Can you really find the best employees out there by looking at the results from employee assessment tools? Will your sales hiring choices improve if you use some of the online recruiting assessment tools on the market today?

The answer to all the questions above is “yes,” but only if you listen to the expert advice of the sales hiring and recruiting experts at KeenHire.

The fact of the matter is that there are a number of different interviewing tools and employee assessment tools available for all companies and all hiring managers to make use of during the hiring process. The problem is that there are so many to choose from that you need to do some serious investigating before choosing which recruiting tools to use.

KeenHire is an Expert in Sales Recruiting Interviewing and Employee Assessment Tools
The good news is that the sales hiring and recruiting experts at KeenHire are here to help you and reduce the amount of workload you have on your plate by investigating into the many employee assessment tools for you on your behalf.

We make it our business at KeenHire to hunt down new interviewing tools and employee assessment tools and then we test those tools thoroughly before we make a decision about whether or not we would be happy to endorse those particular sales hiring tools in question to members of the public.

Therefore, if KeenHire recommends an employee assessment tool or online interviewing tool via its blog or website, you can be sure that the tool is reliable to use and will deliver excellent results in terms of finding the best of the best for you and your sales company.

Use an Employee Evaluating System that Works

When you have a team of sales people to hire, manage and keep, you must make sure that you have the tools at your disposal to find out what it is that your employees really want and what it is that will keep them happily working for you and your business for years to come.

This is why the management and leaderships training experts at KeenHire do their very best to help you find the most effective ways of evaluating both employee performance and employee happiness on a regular basis.

The following information lists some of the most important techniques in employee evaluating that the experts at KeenHire have come to understand thanks to our continued success and experience in this area.

Develop Clear Performance Indicators
One of the most common ways in which managers and leaders seem to fail in terms of employee evaluating lies in the fact that most companies do not have clear performance indicators laid out for their employees from the very start.

What does this mean? What are performance indicators and how can they be used to improve the quality of your employee evaluating systems?

Performance indicators can be anything from setting a desired amount of sales for your employees to reach, to a comparison of the difference in their sales figures over time and to set targets which encourage an increase in sales every time.

Whatever the performance indicators are, you need to make sure that they are clearly set out from the very beginning of employment and that they are used consistently to evaluate employee performance on a regular basis.

The Retention Issue: How To Assess Candidates, Perfect Selection and Retain Top Talent

According To Noah Webster, retention is the act or power of keeping or retaining, but Corporately, retention is the power to keep employees actively engaged and committed to being an integral part of the organization. So what is retention like in this day in age? Are employers on the same page as their employees when it comes to effective performance and talent management?

According to the SHRM Workplace Forecast of 2011, our workplace trends are directly related to talent acquisition, selection & retention. All of these being consecutive to one another and going hand in hand with creating a successful business.

A recent survey on employee performance and retention conducted by Express Employment Professionals, one of the nation's largest privately held staffing companies, found that employers are more disconnected than ever from their workforce. Express' survey revealed that 77 percent of leaders say retention was not a problem or only a slight problem in 2011, while 91 percent of employees said they are willing to switch jobs. These extreme figures should be waking up the employers of our nation, and creating a call to action that something’s not right.

With Employee turn over in the US at 16.4 percent what is there to do? How do you shift your talent management, selection and retention in a way that that increases your profit, your employee satisfaction and turnover?

First of all strong leadership is imperative right now in order to enhance your management operating style, implementing accountability systems, while building and developing high-performance teams.

Talent acquisition can only be beat one way: putting the right people in the right roles. How do we do that? By perfecting selection. Selection can be managed with internally, with a 3^rd party recruiter or using both. Whichever your company decides to go with you must ensure that their skills, personality, and values align with the job and the company. Developing Interview strategies that include pre-established critical screening questions, an in-depth career history review and custom built behavioral interview models prevent the unhealthy corporate impact as well as the high cost of a mis-hire.

Over all the corporate response must be to link employee performance and its impact on the organization’s business goals. Doing this will keep employees goals align with the company’s, creating increasing accomplishment and happier on track employees.

So try something different, create a new hiring process, change the way you interview and beef up your leadership training and finally retain the talent you need. 

To learn more about retention, talent management and see how to create a conscious hiring process, visit us at keenhire.com. We equip companies with systems, processes and people to hire & retain with clarity and insight.

By: Emily Eastman

Don't Let Your Leaders Be Stuck In The Past; Implement 21st Century Leadership Principles Now!

There are many extremely effective leadership styles. The purpose of this program is to enable new and experienced managers to breakthrough leadership barriers that inhibit freedom, self-expression and joy in the workplace.

We focus with you on bringing forth best leadership practices, enhancing your management operating style, implementing accountability systems, encouraging an awareness of your impact on others, and building and developing high-performance teams.

Webinar Info

Registration: FREE

Click HERE to Register

Date: Oct 12, 2011

Time: 10:30AM- 12:00PM PST

 

The intention is to further the goals of your organization through developing the next-level managers, leaders and executives.

In this fast moving program you learn the core distinctions of effective leadership. You maximize your natural leadership strengths and leverage your core competencies to inspire, motivate and lead your team while ensuring key objectives and performance indicators are achieved.

21st Century Leadership Take Aways:

• Fundamentals of Authentic Leadership
• Create Powerful Mission Centered Meetings
• Goal setting tools that turn ideas into action
• Mastery Steps for Professional Leadership Development
• Tools for Building & Developing a High Performance Team
• Self Management strategies that eliminate time bandits and unworthy distractions

When you play to your strengths and apply proven 21^st century leadership principles, your experience of managing and leading transforms from forcing, pushing and driving outcomes to empowering, inspiring and achieving fulfillment.

The Expert

Margaret Graziano is a torchbearer in the Staffing and Recruitment industry. 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 her staffing operation, adopted a world-class Conscious Hiring and placement process 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 customers' ability to hire and retain the right people.

Join us to explore and create a leadership plan of action for yourself and your future that it inspires you to take the actions that lead to success! Click HERE to register NOW!

Conscious Hiring: An Operationally Efficient Sales Hiring Process That Gleans World-Class Results

As business leaders of scaling organizations you know that the success of your organization  depends on the quality of the people inside. KeenHire Talent Management’s Conscious-Hiring webinar enables you to learn how to identify the right people for the right roles directly impacting your ability to achieve corporate sales objectives.

Registration for Conscious Hiring Webinar is FREE

Date: August 2, 2011

Time: 10:30 - 12:00 PST

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW!

During this high-powered webinar you change the way you think about your employees' impact on your business while raising your level of expertise and control in choosing your sales team wisely.

By engaging in this Conscious Hiring process you hone in on the key elements it takes to produce consistent sales results in your sales organization and you learn to identify the core sales behaviors, values and competencies needed to achieve those results reliably over time.

You walk away with:
1. A blueprint for creating a highly effective Conscious-Hiring process
2. Insight into Role Analysis, and why it is the key to effective sales hiring
4. Understand how & why to use psychometric assessment tools
5. Review Behavioral Interviewing techniques; the when, why and how

 

The Expert

Margaret Graziano is a torch bearer in the Staffing and Recruitment industry. 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 her staffing operation, adopted a world-class conscious hiring and placement process 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 customers' ability to hire and retain the right people.

REGISTER NOW!

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5 Steps to Building Trust Between Team Members

Talk of trust-building and teamwork in the office may sound a bit touchy-feely to some. These terms connote awkward exercises and ridiculous activities right out of a Dilbert cartoon. Instead, let's think about trust in a professional sense.

Professional trust is not about catching a teammate as he falls back or boosting a colleague at a rope-climbing contest. Professional trust is about sending the message to your team members that you believe in their competence, honesty, and good intentions.  It's about competence, communication, and commitment. How can you encourage professional trust among your teammates?

Confident Employees are Successful Employees

Why worry about your employees' confidence? Because employees who are confident in themselves and in their abilities are successful employees, and successful employees make a successful company.

If you haven't thought about your employees' confidence before, consider this:

Confident employees want to come to work, they are less likely to quit, and they project a positive image of your company in the wider community. The more confidence an individual possesses, the more efficient and productive they are in meeting their goals. Confidence builds commitment and creates trust among colleagues. A confident work force uses initiative and makes decisions that support organizational goals. Extra benefits—such as an aligned, focused and supportive corporate culture as well as a better and stronger workforce morale—are icing on the cake.