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Managing Resistance in M&A

Change Management in M&A: How to Manage Resistance

1. EXPLAIN THE REASONS FOR THE CHANGE.

Usually the best steps in dealing with problems are the preventive ones.

Perhaps the most effective way to minimize resistance is to make sure people in the organization have a good understanding of the rationale for the changes ...

How Much Resistance to Change is Normal?

What sort of push-back is predictable in an M&A integration? How much resistance is “reasonable”?

If you have a reliable frame of reference, you can put things into perspective. Knowing what’s “normal,” you’ll have a better feel for how you should react to the particular situation facing you. So let’s look at the typical scenario.

We’re dealing in generalities here, but the breakout usually goes about like this.

Some 20 percent of the people in the acquired company are “merger-friendly.” …

Change Management M&A Plans

Healthcare M&A Change Management Strategy

A well-crafted change management strategy helps ensure successful integrations. Acquirers can achieve their goals while mitigating risks by prioritizing patient care, employee well-being, and communications.

Change Management Plan for M&A Integration

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Change Management Plan Overview
Change Management Team Adds Value in Eight Areas
Change Management Plan
Change Management Team Mission
Deliverables
Interdependencies / Coordination Required
Hot Topics / Urgent Issues to Be Solved. . .

Change Management M&A Best Practices

The Make or Break Point in Change Management During Mergers & Acquisitions

Opposition surfaces as soon as the integration process gets underway. Resistance starts to climb. You push to change the organization, and it starts pushing back ...

High-Velocity M&A Change Management

During the early months of merger integration, about the best you can do is manage the blur—ride the waves, so to speak, instead of trying to be boss of the ocean. You can’t avoid the rough water, so you might as well make the most of it …

Something Has To Go

Jobs seem to grow more complicated every year.

Employees are expected to carry a heavier workload, meet higher quality standards, and pick up speed at the same time. It’s a foolproof formula for stress.

Since organizations are under so much pressure from changes in the outside world, though, we can’t look forward to any letup. More work keeps landing on fewer shoulders. Customer expectations keep going up. And ever stiffer competition means we have to move faster and faster just to keep up.

Nevertheless, there are limits to the workload we can carry...

Makes No Sense in M&A But It Happens All The Time

Picture this: An organization asks people to change, then rewards them better if they stay the same.

Makes no sense whatsoever, but it happens all the time. Basically it comes down to this—people get paid to resist.

This is the absurd situation that develops when we ask people to change their behavior, but fail to make it worth their while...