KeenHire Blog by Margaret Graziano

Role Analysis: The Key to Performance Management and Leadership Success

Performance management success and the key to effective leadership lies in the development and strengthening of KPI’s (key performance indicators) so that every single member of your workforce is clearly aware of their role within the team, what is expected of them in that role and what they need to do to meet expectations that are clearly outlined.

The leadership and management experts at KeenHire know from experience and training that clear roles need to be defined by the leadership team for every single internal position in the company. This includes when you are advertising and interviewing someone for a role and when you are managing the employee you have selected in that role too.

Unless this is done, the strong workforce that you are looking for is never going to be within your grasp.

What are key performance indicators?
Key performance indicators are specific targets, qualities, responsibilities or requirements that a leadership team MUST set out.

Too much of the time, the management experts at KeenHire come into contact with companies in which every single manager or executive leader has a different notion of what is expected from any given employee: what their role is and what the company is looking for when hiring someone for that role.

Employee Motivation: How to Nurture it...

Even if you have a team of brilliant, devoted and effective employees who love to work and live for every second of it, you still need to invest time and knowledge in the development of employee motivation to ensure that your workforce remains happy and focused.

The management and leadership experts at KeenHire see it as a high priority to develop ways in which to help you nurture your employee motivation. For this reason, we spend a great deal of our time looking for different kinds of employee management tools for you to use with your team.

Contact the management and leadership experts at KeenHire at any time to find out about the hottest employee motivation tools are the market. Employee motivation tools that we find sometimes come in the form of employee evaluation systems, employee reward ideas or even webinars and conferences which recognized specialists are scheduled to give on the subject of employee motivation throughout the year.

All employees need to receive help in terms of motivation. At KeenHire, we help you to see that huge variety of ways in which this motivation can be supplied on a regular basis to ensure that you develop a strong work force for your business full of employees in whom you can trust to get the job done well.

Examples of employee motivation ideas
One of the most important things to bear in mind is that every single employee from your company is liable to find motivation for their work in different ways and therefore you need to supply employee motivation in different ways too.

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.

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New Exceptional College Graduate Finance Opportunity! Chicago

You are a recent college graduate with a degree in Finance or Entrepreneurialism. You are a highly motivated, driven sales professional-at the core. You have already made up your mind to establish yourself as a financial services career professional. You are thrilled with the idea of having control over your own destiny and experiencing an unlimited earning potential. You are one of the well connected recent graduates, and you are an excellent communicator with a plethora of contacts. Fundamentally, you believe in providing high value consultative services that generate security and financial stability for your customers.

We are representing GCG Financial. GCG has been built on principals that create success for their Advisors and customers. As the 8th largest Financial Services firm in Chicago, they have been led by the Levitz family and leadership team, instilling ethics and morals, as the cornerstone of their business.  The end result is a culture of respect and a team environment where Advisors enjoy both working and representing GCG Financial to their prospects and clients.

As a full-service firm offering one-stop shopping to their customers GCG Financial presents a healthy portfolio of unlimited products.  This permits Advisors an opportunity to become an expert in Insurance, Assets under Management, or Benefits. With a team of nearly 100, the Advisors are fully supported and therefore have more time, to focus on developing their business and portfolio.

You want to bring your personality, tenacity and creativity along with your relationships to an environment that supports your ambitions and mentors you to master the field.
    
GCG Financial believes there is no greater reward than making an impact on other peoples’ lives.  Rewards are prominent at GCG Financial. Monetarily, Advisors experience unlimited income potential and when Advisors are at the upper echelon of productivity, they become eligible for club recognition in the Leader’s Club, Master’s Club, the Circle of Excellence, or for the elite Advisor, the prestigious Black Tie Club. 

Job Requirements 

• 2 years sales and heavy networking during college
• Strong relationship builder 
• Concern and care for your customer's best interest
• Willingness to make outbound sales calls
• Ability to grasp financial concepts, insurance terminology and investment language

Take control over your own destiny and experiencing an unlimited earning potential, apply now!

Propelling Sr. Accounting Associate Position Now Open! Queens

You are an accounting professional who thrives in a fast paced environment where you have the core responsibility for documenting and processing accounting transactions. You are a self-starter who appreciates working independently to complete day-to-day functions like invoicing, journal & general ledger entries and cash receipts as well as working as part of the team to close the books monthly, including the P & L and the Balance Sheet.

You thrive in an environment where clients and business leaders expect invoices to be completed accurately and on time.You enjoy a key contributor role that combines your Accounting education and variety of accounting experience such as, processing high volume complex and routine monthly invoices, accounts payable, applying and entering cash as well as producing month end reports. You have Bachelors degree in Accounting and 2-3 years of practical accounting experience working in small office with company revenues ranging from $8,000,000- $15,000,000. You enjoy being part of a team made up of responsible, hardworking and dedicated people.

We are mid-sized regional office of a Global corporation offering parking solutions to municipal entities throughout the United States. We are seeking a dedicated team player that is comfortable working with a variety of bookkeeping responsibilities, ranging from preparing invoices to assisting with closing the month. We often work on tight deadlines and all need to pitch in to close the books accurately and on time. 

Your experience with full life cycle accounting, creating monthly invoices, processing daily cash receipts, and compiling month-end close reports using Microsoft Dynamics (Great Plains) moves you to the front of the candidate pool.

Duncan Solutions offers more than 70 years of industry leadership serving government clients throughout the US.  With intelligent, integrated products and services, Duncan Solutions is propelling the entire parking/toll way enforcement and collection industry into the future.  We offer great benefits, a very stable business offering and a convenient Queens’ location. 

Job Requirements 

• 2-3 years recent full charge bookkeeper
• heavy invoicing full life-cycle month-end close
• BS Accounting or Finance
• Great Plains

If you are ready for great benefits, and a very stable business offering,

apply now!

 

Does your Organization Work to Keep Its Top Performers?

Think about it: Your company's only truly sustainable competitive advantage, which cannot be copied by competitors, is your corporate culture and the strength of your leadership. Does your company reward innovation, reinforce positive results and cultivate relationships with its top performers? Or do you find yourselves consistently losing top talent?

If so, ask yourself another question: How actively does your organization identify, invest in and motivate leaders? If you ignore this important component of talent development, top performers might leave because of lack of opportunity, and your organization will never achieve its true potential.

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.

Flourish Your Career! Recruiting Coordinator In San-Jose/ Chicago

You are an articulate, upbeat and professional minded Recruiting Coordinator with strong attention to detail, excellent written and verbal communication skills and comprehensive Microsoft office expertise. You thrive in a role where you are supporting a busy team in a customer-facing environment, where you act as the right arm and the person who ensures what is happening on the front end is properly executed on the back end. You have the ability to work remote and also enjoy coming into an office at least 50% of the time and working with a team.

We are KeenHire Talent Management; we provide the next generation of recruitment and retention solutions to growing organizations where hiring the RIGHT mission critical, key contributor and leadership talent for the right roles for the right price is imperative to their success.

Recruitment: Why Change is Good

Global employment is changing rapidly. Within the last 20 years, we've witnessed highs and lows that have redefined the way talent is acquired, assessed, and implemented into the various business environments of the modern world. This change has been a result of global events, government regulations, and a changing economic climate that has demanded efficiency. Not only is this change revolutionizing the recruitment and hiring process, but is benefiting both recruiters and growing companies alike.