Merging Spirit Corporation provides services to help mergers and acquisitions create shareholder value. Research shows that 70% of mergers fail due to overlooked integration challenges, such as problems integrating teams and retaining key managers, and overestimated synergies. Merging Spirit's innovative approach includes diagnosing organizational culture, preparing customized change management and training, and developing key talent retention programs to help transactions achieve profitable and sustainable value creation.

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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
sylvie.santoro@merging-spirit.com
Phone : +1.514.710.2112