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Merging Spirit to Create Value

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Research based observations

70% of all mergers fail to create

meaningful shareholder value

Ignored potential

integration

challenges

WARNING

CHALLENGES

AHEAD

Problems

Integrating Teams

and Retaining Key

Managers

Overestimated

Synergies

? 1 + 1 > 2

* According to Weekly Corporate Growth Report, Bain&Co, Harvard Management Update, Best’s Review / Property – Casualty Insurance Edition, Financial Executive

*

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New approach

Our Mission

With formidable innovative expertise

in supporting HR processes, Merging

Spirit will ensure that your merger or

acquisition transaction is creating

profitable value

Innovative Visionary

Meaningful Sustainable

Our approach Your transaction

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Diagnosing Culture

• Diagnosing organizational culture

• Diagnosing values and collective resistance

• Innovative questionnaire + workshops

• Cross-cultural impact evaluations for international acquisitions

• Organizational

• Values and Collective

Resistance

• Cross Cultural

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• Preparation for optimized change management scenarios

• Customized training to recognize transition impact on individuals/

teams and to retain human capital

• Strategy

• Training

Change Management

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• Intergroup mirroring and teambuilding

• Focused use of organizational and transition rituals

• Focus groups and survey feedback

• Cohesion

• Integration Initiative

Avoiding “Us and Them Culture”

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• Key employees

• Key Managers

• Executives

Assessment and Coaching

• Select key employees and managers to secure competency transfer

• Coach senior and middle management level to model desired

attitudes and behaviors

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• Internal

• External

Communication

• Communicate where the acquisition fits in with the business vision

• Communicate plans quickly enough to retain talented people

• Two-way communication

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• Create a customized retention program with exit doors

• Consider all employees population from top to bottom

• Approaching human capital retention through optimized models

• Philosophy

• Application

Key Talent Retention Programs

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References

Acquiring Acquired

Acted as part of

Ove

Interactive

Access Consultants

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www.merging-spirit.com

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