Show Notes
In the corporate world, we use clinical terms like "synergy," "restructuring," and "redundancies." But what you are actually experiencing during a major acquisition is grief. The Grief Recovery Handbook teaches us that grief is the conflicting feeling caused by the end of, or change in, a familiar pattern of behavior. Visit www.wevebeenacquired.com for more resources.
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Welcome to the We've Been Acquired podcast, the show dedicated to helping you navigate the turbulent waters of workplace changes, mergers, and acquisitions. I'm your host, and today we’re looking at the difference between venting and gossiping. It’s something too easy to do. Yet another change has been made at work and it’s an awful idea. You’ve got a Teams chat with your team going and an off-the-network text thread with your work husband going about how terrible this will be. The gossip starts immediately. Visit www.wevebeenacquired.com for more resources.
In this episode, we cover the DiSC assessment, which is a tool used to get to know yourself and your style at work. DiSC categorizes communication and work styles into four traits of a profile to improve self-awareness and team collaboration. The four traits are dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness, which make up the acronym DiSC. Visit www.wevebeenacquired.com for more resources.
The company announcement was last week and this week has been a blur. You’re not only trying to keep all the balls in the air from your day job, but now you’re part of a new company and they’re welcoming you with webinars and in person meetings and training and information. All you want to do is get back to what you were doing last week, all of this stuff is so distracting!! This episode looks at prioritizing the new employee onboarding training for an acquisition or merger. Visit www.wevebeenacquired.com for more resources.
Why did I write the book, We've Been Acquired? I'll tell you the inspiration (and why I write under a pseudonym and have my friend voice these podcasts) in this episode.
When a merger or acquisition threatens your job, it doesn't just threaten your bank account. For a very specific group of people, it feels like an existential threat to their actual right to exist. I’m talking to the perfectionists. Visit www.wevebeenacquired.com for more resources.