While mergers have a clear strategic value at the enterprise level, they can wreak havoc on the workforce. Employees often imagine the worst merger scenarios. The fear of job loss and reduced status, eroding cultural values and altering established ways of doing business can cause even the most dedicated of employees to become disengaged. This disengagement can turn into either the flight of your top talent, or even worse, quitting mentally but staying on the job.

In this audio conference, Bruce Fern, President and Chief Engagement Solutions Architect at Performance Connections, provides attendees with better ways of keeping the workforce engaged during and after the merger and integration of two potentially very different organizations.

This audio conference covers:

• What is missing from the executive perspective on mergers
• A unique definition of engagement that will support merger success
• Three roots of employee engagement and how to cultivate them during a merger
• Five rules for managing the merger from an engagement and retention perspective
• Early warning signals that your top talent might jump ship
• Getting the workforce change-ready
• How to use your top talent in a merger

About the speaker:

Bruce Fern is the President/Founder of Performance Connections International, a training and consulting firm specializing in strategy fulfillment through employee and customer engagement. Prior to founding Performance Connections, Bruce ran MOHR/Blessing White and was an executive with Citibank and Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Bruce is known as an industry leader of “firsts”. He was one of the original professionals that merged banking and brokerage in the '80s, was one of the first HRD professionals to launch e-learning in the corporate workplace, and is considered a world opinion leader in the field of employee engagement and retention.

Bruce is widely published and often a keynote speaker at conference presentations. He is an associate professor at New York University’s School of Professional Studies and one of the founders of the NYU Training and Development Diploma Program.

Who should attend?

• VP-level Division Heads
• C-Suite Executives
• Director-level Managers
• Senior HR Managers
• Department-level Managers

*Please note: Each registration covers one line connected to the audio conference. Attendees dialing from separate locations are required to have separate registrations.