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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.

 

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

365 Days of Gratitude - Post 11

Today I am grateful for the team Scott and I are building. We had our first Friday Happy Hour and its apparent there will be many more and a growing group around the table and eventually filling the room.

The leaders of the team reviewed our leadership assessments Friday afternoon providing insights to each other about ourselves and about what makes us tick. We shared the best way to approach each other and how to communicate in a manner that works for the group and for each one of us individually and as a team.

The leadership team at KeenHire / Jake Knows grew today and agreed that the next meeting will be about team and business unit goal setting.

Fun stuff and so much to be grateful for! Life is an invention and its up to me to create it the way I want it to go.

365 Days of Gratitude - Post 9 - Madonna

I am grateful that during my formative years I was influenced by Madonna. Madonna taught me that woman can create anything for their lives that they want. She taught me marketing, sales and market domination.

Madonna is an icon and I'm proud to have grown up in the same generation as her.

365 Days of Gratitude- Day 9- Scott Slinker

Scott is a remarkable person. He is willing and ready to deal with himself and his limitations. He works things out with me. He takes on the distinction "coaching" in a profound and inspiring way.

Scott I love our partnership and I adore you.

365 Days of Gratitude- Day 9- Scott Slinker

Scott is a remarkable person. He is willing and ready to deal with himself and his limitations. He works things out with me. He takes on the distinction "coaching" in a profound and inspiring way.

Scott I love our partnership and I adore you.

365 Days of Gratitude -Post 5 - Tammy's Nails

Today I am grateful for Tammy's Nails. Besides the fact that they do a fabulous job of both manicures and pedicures, and that their work lasts a minimum of 2 weeks they treat their customers with grace and dignity. So many times I have forgot the no tips on credit card rule and they give me a break. They have let me sleep in the chair well beyond my pedicure expiration time. The reflexology foot massages are second to none. Tammy's in Willow Glen ROCKS.

The other reason I am grateful for Tammy's is that the day I met my new partner I was going to Tammy's. I parked by Jake Knows and was walking through the building to get to Tammy.

When I saw the Jake logo on the door and the sign that said we build apps to automate your business I had to explore more. I pushed the door open on a late Saturday afternoon and the rest is history.

If I hadn't been going to Tammy's I wouldn't have met JakeKnows!!!

Sep 1, 2012

Come Listen to KeenHire's CEO Margaret Graziano on the leading trends in Human Capital, Recruitment & Talent Management - Silicon Valley Talk Radio - Saturday 9.1 @ 3:00 pm KLIV AM 1590 if you can't make it tune in on the SVLG website http://svlg.org/press/ceo-show or http://kliv.com/Podcasts/1055853

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.