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Do you provide change management education to newly acquired employees?

  • 1.  Do you provide change management education to newly acquired employees?

    Posted 2 hours ago

    If so, I'd really appreciate knowing:

    • What is the intended outcome?
    • What content is covered?
    • Who is the intended audience?

    I've typically scheduled two separate sessions for new acquisitions on change management.   The first is given to all acquired employees.  The intended outcome is to:

    • Validate the feelings they may have about the acquisition; show empathy
    • Explain that their colleagues may have very different feelings and to be sensitive to this
    • How to address the feelings they may be having

    The second is given to managers from the acquisition to give them:

    • Some change management theory to understand what they and their employees are going through
    • Tools they can use on themselves and provide to their employees who may be resistant to changes introduced by being acquired


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    Jennifer Lipschultz
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