Friday, January 3, 2014

People, Culture and Mergers...Oh My..

Merger Integration


In most of today's organizations, change is unexpected and frequent, monumental in scope, relentless, and increasingly complex. Flux has become the natural state of most organizations.

Any business combination magnifies this challenge. Many leaders are skilled at effecting and responding to the structural side of change: creating a vision, reorganizing, and restructuring. But it is rare that they have mastered the skills to constructively manage the human side of change: grieving, letting go, building hope, and learning.

Without a plan and a system to help people through the integration process, the benefits of a merger frequently are not optimized due to Silo-ization. In some cases, culture clash will cause the process to fail outright. 


KLG helps increase the probability of the intended outcome of a merger or acquisition by:
  • Assessing the New Team and identifying, advocates and antibodies to intended success
  • Mapping out a plan to create a common culture
  • Gaining consensus on values, vision and mission
  • Gaining buy-in on a go-forward operating plan
Coaching leaders to:
  • Be tough while simultaneously expressing appropriate empathy.
  • Catalyze change while understanding transition.
  • Express a sense of urgency while retaining the capacity for realistic patience.
  • Be self-reliant yet trust others.
  • Radiate both optimism and realism.
  • Capitalize on strengths while fostering the capacity to go against the grain.



Our integration program takes sixteen weeks, but we only meet once a week with particpants for 2 hours maximum.

Contact KLG for More Information-

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Our National Mortgage Bank client is looking for Mortgage Brokers and Bankers

They treat qualified candidates like employees once hired, with benefits and take care of compliance issues. They will even pick up whole offices and take over the rent and other facilitates payments if you qualify. 

Why wait to see if the new environment will work for your group?





Send letter of interest with resume to: recruiting@klgconsultants.com

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Happy 2014


Happy New Year



May #2014 be your Best #Year Yet!


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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Gamification to Increase Employee Survey Response Rates


We have written frequently about using custom surveys to increase employee engagement and hence increase retention and productivity.

 


We frequently hear that survey response rates are not high enough to rely upon the data. We also hear that the length of surveys sometimes creates disengagement from the feedback process.

  

Ultimately the solution to low utilization of employee surveys is to increase participant engagement through gamification.  The only way for organizations to get more survey data is to make the experience fun and worth participant’s time, more like a game.  People participate in games because they are entertaining, stimulating, and above all else, fun.  The key to the best games is feedback loops allowing people to enjoy immediate results and anticipate future moves.  Games also take advantage of keeping score and comparing oneself to the competition.
Our custom surveys are based on technology with a 25-year history in computer gaming. We have capitalized on these technology paradigms to harness the most engaging survey technology available. On average, our system’s customers report getting up to 10 times more information than any other on-line survey tool.  In addition to more data, customers are enjoying much higher user satisfaction from using our new survey technology.
Our custom survey technology was designed to be engaging.  Survey questions are presented in animated panels.  Users select their answers and receive immediate feedback on how their answer compares to others answering the same question.  After answering, a new panel slides into place at the top of the stack.  The animated panels reduce page navigation and create anticipation for the next question (try a live demonstration at http://klgconsultants.blogspot.com/2013/10/blog-post.html)

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