Mergers & Acquisitions

Have you been able to successfully measure culture before the Day 1 of the Merger or Acquisition? If so, would love to hear about it. 

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Leslie Ellis
leslie@meaningfulchangeconsulting.com
Founder & CEO
Meaningful Change Consulting, LLC
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Hi Leslie

We have done culture assessments on two organizations prior to their merger. We used them to find both common and individual cultural strengths. We also used them to facilitate discussions with teams from both ends to shape the new culture and what would be beneficial or needed. 

Have you been able to successfully measure culture before the Day 1 of the Merger or Acquisition? If so, would love to hear about it. 

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Leslie Ellis
leslie@meaningfulchangeconsulting.com
Founder & CEO
Meaningful Change Consulting, LLC
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Hi Leslie

We have done culture assessments on two organizations prior to their merger. We used them to find both common and individual cultural strengths. We also used them to facilitate discussions with teams from both ends to shape the new culture and what would be beneficial or needed. 

Have you been able to successfully measure culture before the Day 1 of the Merger or Acquisition? If so, would love to hear about it. 

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Leslie Ellis
leslie@meaningfulchangeconsulting.com
Founder & CEO
Meaningful Change Consulting, LLC
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Mari - Thanks! What assessments do you use? are they custom assessments or something like Barrett or Human Synergistics? Just curious. 

Hi Leslie

We have done culture assessments on two organizations prior to their merger. We used them to find both common and individual cultural strengths. We also used them to facilitate discussions with teams from both ends to shape the new culture and what would be beneficial or needed. 

Have you been able to successfully measure culture before the Day 1 of the Merger or Acquisition? If so, would love to hear about it. 

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Leslie Ellis
leslie@meaningfulchangeconsulting.com
Founder & CEO
Meaningful Change Consulting, LLC
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Mari - Thanks! What assessments do you use? are they custom assessments or something like Barrett or Human Synergistics? Just curious. 

Hi Leslie

We have done culture assessments on two organizations prior to their merger. We used them to find both common and individual cultural strengths. We also used them to facilitate discussions with teams from both ends to shape the new culture and what would be beneficial or needed. 

Have you been able to successfully measure culture before the Day 1 of the Merger or Acquisition? If so, would love to hear about it. 

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Leslie Ellis
leslie@meaningfulchangeconsulting.com
Founder & CEO
Meaningful Change Consulting, LLC
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We have used spiral Dynamics, Dennison Culture as well as Barret's CTT  on separate occasions but one could use any cultural instrument that sparks conversation and dialogue.

I saw that people enjoyed speaking about what works or what they like about their culture that they'd like to keep.

Mari - Thanks! What assessments do you use? are they custom assessments or something like Barrett or Human Synergistics? Just curious. 

Hi Leslie

We have done culture assessments on two organizations prior to their merger. We used them to find both common and individual cultural strengths. We also used them to facilitate discussions with teams from both ends to shape the new culture and what would be beneficial or needed. 

Have you been able to successfully measure culture before the Day 1 of the Merger or Acquisition? If so, would love to hear about it. 

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Leslie Ellis
leslie@meaningfulchangeconsulting.com
Founder & CEO
Meaningful Change Consulting, LLC
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Have you been able to successfully measure culture before the Day 1 of the Merger or Acquisition? If so, would love to hear about it. 

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Leslie Ellis
leslie@meaningfulchangeconsulting.com
Founder & CEO
Meaningful Change Consulting, LLC
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We have been testing out some crosswalk exercises to map the culture of the acquisition to ours and it's been relatively helpful. Another thing I've done in the past is use Hofstede's approach to measuring culture to map similarities and differences. https://www.hofstede-insights.com/organisational-culture. It takes some of the emotion out of your analysis.

Have you been able to successfully measure culture before the Day 1 of the Merger or Acquisition? If so, would love to hear about it. 

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Leslie Ellis
leslie@meaningfulchangeconsulting.com
Founder & CEO
Meaningful Change Consulting, LLC
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