EXECUTIVE BRIEFING

Make sure your top decision makers have a shared understanding of the basic principles and best practices for successful integration.

• Merging organizations face an array of new challenges, and status quo management won’t work. Our briefing provides critical insights, creates executive alignment on new priorities, and positions your key players to operate by the same integration playbook.
• We give participants a panoramic view of the integration landscape, explaining how merger dynamics create new stresses, change people’s behavior, and cause a highly predictable set of problems. The situation calls for numerous counterintuitive moves. Our briefing focuses on what works, what doesn’t, and why.
• The session explains the two sides of merger integration: project management and people management. Both are critical. We highlight key aspects of project management such as the appropriate governance structure and integration methodology. People management topics include merger-specific communications, how to protect productivity, managing resistance to change, reconciling cultural issues, talent retention, etc.
• Ordinarily, it’s best to have separate briefings for the two firms that are merging. We tailor our message to fit the situation, and our advice/coaching for the acquirer’s executives is necessarily different in some respects from what we provide for the acquiree. Also, our give-and-take with participants is richer and more serviceable when the two parties have separate briefings.