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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

 

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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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 approach to employee development and training, delivered though 1-1 coaching, in-person seminars, or convenient teleconferences. By making career and personal development relevant, timely and social, we help you redefine your approach to employee development and help you to identify your emerging leaders.

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.

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. Mastery of effective management requires an additional set of skills that move new managers forward quickly, so they may inspire and engage others. Team motivation is powerful and has potential to achieve great results.

At KeenHire, our new manager training focuses on identifying strengths that will drive successful implementation of newly acquired responsibilities and actions, to create value to the company’s success. The value proposition for the new managers we work with is better teamwork, higher spirits, and a renewed enthusiasm.

Through our innovative approach, KeenHire helps new supervisors and new managers learn and apply principles, approaches, and tools that are critical to managing others and teams. Effective and clear information is provided about the role of a new manager, and how it is distinguished from previous roles. Creating from others requires a specific set of abilities and skills that differ from creating from self.

KeenHire guides new managers in the practical application of all necessary elements that create sustainable change. We help with the design of new alliances with all necessary individuals, which is critical when assuming the responsibilities of a new manager. We also provide a clear understanding of how to perform managerial tasks such as performance planning, accountability to others, as well as strategies to inspire and motivate.  Prioritizing and delegating are also essential skills. Our thorough, in-depth training on each of these elements is essential to the success of your developing leaders.

Each solution is customized to bring an increase in bench strength to your management pipeline. Proven results accelerate critical business initiatives and increase the performance of each new manager.

Contact us today for a free consultation.

 

Keen Coaching

Part of becoming recruitment and hiring experts is sharing our wealth of knowledge with hiring authorities in growing organizations. Our experts are available for coaching, mentoring, and consulting in all aspects of our expertise. Whether you need your sales team to operate more effectively or you’re looking to implement Conscious Hiring™ into your existing hiring practices, we can help.

Executive Assessment

As a leading decision maker at your company, it’s almost certain that you need to be sure your executive staff is corporately aligned and motivated for success. Because this type of psychometric data is almost never laid out in front of you, we’re here to show you that it can be. Take this sample executive assessment and a member of our team will guide you through how it works in solidifying and scaling your leadership team for the future.

 

Performance Management

Within an organization, making certain each role is producing at or above expectations can be extremely time-consuming and frustrating, especially for new managers. We have developed a systematic process for putting the right people in the right jobs, improving overall performance and reducing management inefficiencies. Our philosophy on performance management is this:  hire right, clearly communicate the expectations, train where training is needed, establish accountability check-ins and then get out of the way. Our performance management consultants are experts in the distinctions that will yield the top performance from your people. Our consultants are trained to identify performance gaps and challenges, and to implement systematic performance management tools, methodologies and training programs that elevate your people’s ability to drive and sustain performance.

Talent Strategy And Workforce Optimization

If you have been concerned about how your company can compete for key talent now and in the future, it is imperative to sit down with the business leader and discuss the need to develop a compelling talent strategy. An effective talent and workforce strategy must have more than an endorsement from the CEO. In other words, developing and implementing a competitive and effective talent strategy for the purpose of optimizing your workforce must be an initiative that comes from the top of an organization. Without stakeholder alignment no talent strategy can sustain the test of time.

With four generations in the workforce, emerging industries on the rise, senior level leaders on the verge of retirement or redeployment and a whole new generation entering the workforce, every company who relies on people to deliver a service needs to be working on building competent hiring practices, creating employee development programs and establishing competitive employee retention strategies. While these are all elements of an effective talent strategy they are not the only important factors. Workforce optimization requires a comprehensive holistic approach that includes metrics and measurement in key areas of concern – employee retention ratios and hiring effectiveness ratings, from both the hiring manager and the new employee.

365 Days of Gratitude - Post 13 - Landmark Education

Tonight I assisted at Landmark Education's Advanced course evening session. I was there to stand for SELP registration and to register people into the completion course of the curriculum for living.

I first attended the Landmark Forum on a recommendation from Bruce Hodes, a well respected and provocative company performance coach. It was 1996. Before the Landmark Forum I was living a single dimensional life. After the Landmark Forum I saw many more avenues for living, working, mothering, relating, loving and contributing. My world opened up and so did my creativity and my ability to vision a future outside of my peripheral vision.

After the Forum my awakened curiosity moved me to learn everything I could about my industry and about all the factors that would change it. It was almost a decade later that that the KeenHire concept was born.

Whether self development comes in the package of Landmark Education or DePaul University for me taking on my own leadership, being driven for excellence and staying curious has put me in a position to invent and invest in a dream and play the game of making it into a reality.

I'm grateful Bruce Hodes that you invited me to do the Forum.