Objectives
- Level-set on integration communication best practices
- Understand integration communication approaches and progress-to-date
- Define Charter and Operating Model for Communications Team
- Define a set of integration communication Guiding Principles
- Discuss major audience segments
- Discuss immediate communication needs
- Identify next steps
Agenda
- Welcome
- Objectives
- Pritchett
- Overview of approach
- Merger communications perspective
- Communications Progress-to-Date
- Communication Team Charter Definition
- Define Guiding Principles
- Audience Segmentation
- Key Communication Priorities
- Next Steps
Preclose
- Division GM and IMO Lead communicate with subsidiary CEO
- Division GM and IMO meet with subsidiary Executive Team about Integration process and timeline
- Division GM and IMO lead plan Employee Day 1 events and coordinate Functional leads
- Draft Supplier and Customer communications
Day 1
- Welcoming letter goes out from CEO and Division GM to all subsidiary employees
- Talking Points for Day 1 event
- IMO shares high-level integration plan with subsidiary employees
- Division GM initiates communication of new management structure and reporting relationships
Day 15 ...
Slide titles:
![Communication Planning Objectives](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Communication-Planning-Objectives-1-min.png?itok=KTPg9YYl)
Objectives
![Communication Planning Agenda](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Communication-Planning-Agenda-1-min.png?itok=-pmXzXDn)
Agenda
![Communications Timeline](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Communications-Timeline-1-min.png?itok=-ds0LOot)
Communications Process – Suggested Approach
![Communications Challenge](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Communications-Challenge-1-min.png?itok=KbbvdtOF)
A Reminder: The Merger Challenge
![Counter Intuitive Moves](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Counter-Intuitive-Moves-1-min.png?itok=yPv43l2c)
Counter Intuitive Moves
![PRITCHETT Point Of View: Common Communication Mistakes](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/PRITCHETT-Point-Of-View-Common-Communication-Mistakes-1-min.png?itok=9PzVbVID)
PRITCHETT Point Of View: Common Communication Mistakes
![Playing “Carnac the Magnificent”](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Playing-Carnac-the-Magnificent-1-min.png?itok=Ybig07Zf)
Playing “Carnac the Magnificent”
![Sugar Coating the Truth](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Sugar-Coating-the-Truth-1-min.png?itok=oMP9XUYr)
Sugar Coating the Truth
![Forgetting the “Me”](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Forgetting-the-Me-1-min.png?itok=yRo8Nanl)
Forgetting the “Me”
![Holding Back the Compliments](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Holding-Back-the-Compliments-1-min.png?itok=sYLgLBiB)
Holding Back the Compliments
![Staggered Experiences](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Staggered-Experiences-1-min.png?itok=Opit5uqb)
Staggered Experiences
![Progress-to-Date](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Progress-to-Date-1-min.png?itok=NlhqnJlE)
Progress-to-Date
![Communication Team Charter](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Communication-Team-Charter-1-min.png?itok=zeCYBDF3)
Communication Team Charter
![Communications Team](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Communications-Team-1-min.png?itok=8Q3HVi7e)
Communications Team
![Guiding Principles](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Guiding-Principles-1-min_0.png?itok=u-l4qmbN)
Guiding Principles
![Audience Segmentation](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Audience-Segmentation-1-min.png?itok=TqDn7NYI)
Audience Segmentation
![Key Communication Priorities](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Key-Communication-Priorities-1-min.png?itok=Ns-jnf_4)
Key Communication Priorities
![Next Steps](/sites/default/files/styles/ppt_slide_thumbnails/public/Next-Steps-1-min_2.png?itok=x1CRx6Zj)
Next Steps