Mastering Mergers: HR's Role in Melding Organizational Cultures and Retaining Top Talent - ON CD

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Learn HR's critical role in avoiding these costly mistakes and how to create a framework for a successful merger strategy by participating in the all-new HR Hero audio conference, Mastering Mergers: HR's Role in Melding Organizational Cultures and Retaining Top Talent.

In just 90 minutes, a senior HR consultant experienced in post-merger integrations will show you how to:

• Avoid loss of productivity, declining morale, outright conflict, and loss of key talent
• Control the chaos that usually comes with any merger or acquisition
• Get your new organization moving forward and focused on its business objectives as quickly as possible

AUDIO CONFERENCE BONUS: A Your presenter will provide an Action Items List for mergers and acquisitions, with specific steps for HR during the entire M&A process.

About Your Guest Speaker, Warren N. Rothman

Warren N. Rothman is a Senior Human Resource Consultant at Blue Prairie Group LLC, a full-service human resource and investment consulting firm. With over 30 years of human resources leadership in industries and companies as diverse as Xerox Corporation, Federated Department Stores, Ameritech and Alterra Healthcare, Warren has been an influential strategic and operational partner to C-level executives and field management in implementing practical, timely and bottom-line impacting HR solutions to difficult business issues.

In his generalist roles as Chief Human Resources Officer, as well as functional specialist, Warren provided value-added leadership for a number of post-merger human resources integrations of structure, policies and systems; the complete redesign of employee communications; establishment of performance management and pay-for performance programs; review and redesign of several benefits packages, yielding multi-million dollar savings; recruitment of middle and senior management; post-hire on-boarding and retention initiatives, reducing turnover by 15%; integrated talent management, including succession planning, individual development and coaching; and, numerous company turnarounds, including 3 successful Chapter 11 filings with cost reductions ranging from $6 to $60 million.

Since joining Blue Prairie Group, Warren has completed several HR assessments, led several retained HR assignments, facilitated several Payroll, HRIS and Timekeeping systems conversions, and led a large-scale culture and organization change management effort. Warren holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Organizational Psychology from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He is a member of the Human Resources Management Association of Chicago and the Association for Corporate Growth.

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Mastering Mergers: HR's Role in Melding Organizational Cultures and Retaining Top Talent - ON CD

Presented by nationally-recognized ADA expert Jonathan Mook and experienced employment law attorney Michael Barnsback

• NBC Universal and Comcast
• Sony and Panasonic
• Delta and Northwest
• Anheuser-Busch and InBev

Many of these recent mergers are doomed to fail, according to Gartner Research. The failure to understand the nuances of blending two distinct work cultures into one cohesive unit can result in chaos, profit loss, or even a hostile takeover.

Learn HR's critical role in avoiding these costly mistakes and how to create a framework for a successful merger strategy by participating in the all-new HR Hero audio conference, Mastering Mergers: HR's Role in Melding Organizational Cultures and Retaining Top Talent.

In just 90 minutes, a senior HR consultant experienced in post-merger integrations will show you how to:

• Avoid loss of productivity, declining morale, outright conflict, and loss of key talent
• Control the chaos that usually comes with any merger or acquisition
• Get your new organization moving forward and focused on its business objectives as quickly as possible

AUDIO CONFERENCE BONUS: Your presenter will provide an Action Items List for mergers and acquisitions, with specific steps for HR during the entire M&A process.

You'll also learn:

• Your HR game plan for on-boarding new talent and different organizational cultures
• The key role your employee handbook plays in managing merger & acquisition risks
• HR's new role in all phases of an acquisition
• Financials, market share, and other "hard data" HR needs to understand in the M&A process
• Your "due diligence" process: Benefits plans, turnover rates, litigation risks, and more
• The "soft" human capital issues that can make or break an acquisition's success
• How to assess the "fit" of new personnel and cultures: Your leadership team, HR practices, and company culture
• Innovative approaches to help you integrate employees into a new organizational culture
• How to executive specific M&A transactions that will boost the bottom line 

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An HR Hero Audio Conference on CD is a previously-recorded seminar that you listen to on your computer, auto, or home CD player. With each event focusing on one area of employment law, you can quickly catch up on the latest developments in employment law and HR issues, as your schedule permits. Plus, you get access to the seminar material downloads.

Quick: Depending on the topic, each HR Hero Audio Conference recording normally ranges from an hour to 90 minutes.

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