Unlocking organisational potential: Accelerating business integration through insight-driven research
Glyn Luckett CMRS
Director Advisory Services I Insights Professional | Expert in Customer+Employee Experience+B2B | Transforming Research Objectives into Actionable Insights I 20+ Ys Experience I Insight 250 Award I More in About section
Integrating large groups of employees can be a complex process that comes with its own set of challenges. These challenges can arise from various factors such as differences in culture, communication styles, work habits, and organisational structures. Understanding how these challenges can be worked through with insight and solutions created enables transformation and the benefits or goals realised.
Often organisations come together bringing large pools of data including HR analytics, Employee Surveys and L&D data, analysing these takes time and interpreting the data can take longer. This can slow the process of decision making and transformation.
We have developed research tools applying our behavioural science solutions, that enable organisations to broaden their understanding of people and use their pools of data more insightfully and efficiently, through providing understanding of employee emotional pathways and how those influence behaviour. ?
Here are some common challenges we see through our work associated with integrating large groups of employees.
Aligned to each of the challenges are the research solutions we can deploy to enable focus on driving business results:
Communication breakdown: As the number of employees increases, effective communication becomes more difficult. Information might not flow smoothly, leading to misunderstandings, confusion, and potential errors.
Maru Pulse will provide understanding of employee expectations and how you can connect emotionally with employee through communication. Read about Maru Pulse
Why not create employee communication champions to engage staff and ensure no one gets left out?
Cultural differences: Large groups often consist of employees from diverse backgrounds, regions, or even different companies (in the case of mergers or acquisitions). These cultural differences can affect team dynamics, decision-making processes, and overall productivity.
Maru Explore will provide a safe space to understand where those cultural differences exist and what employees expect of team cohesion and diversity management.
Creating staff groups to share experiences of best practice and where work needs doing allows everyone to have a voice.
Resistance to change: Integrating large groups often involves implementing new processes, systems, or organizational structures. Some employees may be resistant to change, leading to friction and a slower adoption of new practices.
Maru Think Tank provides a safe space capture employee reactions to new ideas and gather granular insights into whether they will gain support. Showcase examples of where ideas can make a difference to create a positive buzz about this valuable initiative.
Loss of individuality and team cohesion: Large groups may find it challenging to maintain the sense of camaraderie and team cohesion that smaller groups naturally foster. Employees may feel lost in the crowd and struggle to connect with colleagues.
Maru Explore will provide a safe space for staff to collaborate with new colleagues and share ideas to understand how everyone can be embraced in the changes integration brings.
Why not engage employee champions to share and discuss across working groups and experiences of best practice and allow everyone to have a voice and contribute.
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Training and onboarding: Introducing a large number of new employees or integrating existing teams require significant training and onboarding efforts. This process can be time-consuming and costly, especially when it comes to maintaining consistent quality across all employees.
Maru Learning & Development has been developed specifically to understood the expectations and requirements of how, what and when your employees want to train and learn. Look at feedback by employee group or segment – from tenure to department or demographic variable. Understand which groups need focus in order to meet their specific training needs and expectations.
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Maintaining company culture: As the organization expands, preserving the original company culture can become difficult. Employees from different backgrounds may have diverse perspectives, and it requires effort to ensure that the core values and mission remain intact.
Maru Everyone is our research solution to understand how and where your organisation connects with employees and how policies and process resonate with individuals to create the ideal environment.
Do policies and process need validating or developing? Or do you need to understand how your teams feel about the way their employer is delivering against Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity objectives?
People wellbeing and workplace wellness: Given that an employee’s workplace wellbeing is influenced by various factors - from their relationships with co-workers to the equipment and resources they have access to – it’s a complex task to accurately identify, and then tackle the issues.?
Maru Wellness is our research solution that enables organisations to understand how they can support the ongoing emotional and physical wellbeing of your teams to maximise creativity and productivity.
Would you like to discuss how our research solutions and tools can overcome the challenges described above and understand how your business integration can be a great people experience. Our research also identifies the employee emotions that enables communication with a sense of shared purpose and how employee engagement can foster a positive and productive integration process.
Our solutions are developed to each clients needs and requirements, our tool boxes are agile and unique.
Thank you for reading, message me if you would like to know more.
Glyn