Merging: a challenging process
to implement for Teams and Management
FACILITATE THE MERGER&ACQUISITION PROCESS
WHY IT HAPPENS
Management is generally preservative and operational teams are afraid of the upcoming change.
Why?
Unfamiliarity, lack of mutual trust, prejudgements, fear of the unknown, competitive bitterness, pride, frustrations.
This mood makes participation in a change a hard sell.
OUR CREDO
Paramount factors to implement the change are: a unified Executive Team and a committed OperationalTeam.
The way people relate to one another, the acceptance of the value of new team members, the openness to the upcoming change and the esteem of one another play an important role in the success of the merging process.
For change to be embraced the team members have to accept one other.
OUR SOLUTION
We take away the traditional tool people use to share information: the verbal exchange. We don't talk anymore!
This is the best way to overturn bad social habits and put everybody in the same position: compelled to reinvent communication.
How? Using gestures, visual cues, natural body language marks and introducing some basic sign language.
Our facilitators encourage
proximity, eye contact, spontaneity, bonding, connection to build understanding between people.
When an issue comes up, teams will look to each other for help, suggestions, brainstorming to find a collaborative way to go forward.
YOUR WIN
Fun is a key ingredient of our methodology: people drop their barriers, feel more authentic and laugh easily with each other.
The switch feels quite awkward at first but quickly they begin having fun “talking with their hands” and they will
understand each other.
After that, the facilitator relates about how an organizational change can feel wrong at first, but begins to feel more natural as time goes on.
