Mergers & Acquisitions – what are the pitfalls and how does communications contribute to success?

Large scale changes, like business mergers, come with a whole host of unique challenges.

Those planning change prepare for the most obvious hurdles, such as moving offices and reshuffling teams, covering all their logistical bases, but they’re left baffled when things don’t turn out the way they wanted.

The reality is that they failed to address the biggest challenge of them all: the emotional impact of change on people.

We reveal how overlooking this challenge leads to ineffective change using real examples. And what businesses need to do to ensure their change initiatives succeed.

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Culture Change and the Importance of Internal Communications

How your employees work is as important as what they do. Yet capturing something as intangible as culture and setting it down on paper can feel like catching mist.

As an agency specialising in internal communication, employee engagement and change, we’re experts in this area and we want to share an overview of the thinking that influences our approach.

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Making Business Transformation a Success

When executed with the right tools and techniques, business transformation can fix the things that are dragging your organisation down.

Andrea Law recently tackled this subject during episode thirteen of Tony Lockwood's podcast series on business transformation. You won’t regret giving it a listen, but we thought it’d be useful to cover Andrea’s main points in this blog.

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Understanding What Motivates Employees In The Workplace

Highly-motivated employees are better problem-solvers; can handle uncertainty more easily; have higher levels of innovation, creativity, and customer-centricity; are more profitable; improve customer satisfaction; and increase employee retention rates – they are engaged.

But motivating employees isn’t a simple task. In this article, we deep dive into the tactics businesses can use to get the best out of their people.

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How to Ensure Your Transformation is a Success

How can you make sure your transformation is a success when so many others fail?

In episode #13 of Tony Lockwood's podcast series, Andrea Law of Enthuse Communications provides insight into how to drive engagement within and throughout the transformation journey.

Andrea reveals plenty of do's and don'ts, theory and best practice to help you on your way to expertly handling your people through change management.

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Vulnerability in Leaders

Pretending to be perfect all the time is problematic for you and your business. You put yourself under enormous pressure to uphold this perfect image and, over time, you may become resistant to change and closed off to valuable information that could help you improve.

What is the right way to face leadership challenges? And how can you talk about problems in the business without sabotaging your reputation, the morale of your team or sparking fear and panic? We discuss.

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Back to Work with a Bang

For the first time in three months, you’re going back to work. You’re excited but you worry. Will it be awkward? Safe? Have things changed permanently?

Discover how you can maintain effective engagement when bringing your employees back to work to improve team morale, drive productivity and boost profitability.

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