NICE19 - Company culture, employee benefits, and business acquisition with Pat Owings.

Pat Owings is the owner of 12 Point Signworks, Redwoods Management, and Oak Ridge Association Management.

The Nice Podcast is brought to you by Futureforth.com. We help fast-growing tech companies onboard, create, and keep happier more connected employees.

What we talked about...

• Cultural and other challenges in acquisitions of businesses.

• Employee communication is key.

• How to reassure team members when new management comes in.

• They are listening to your plans, but they looking for your actions and will judge based on this.

• How to effectively fill open positions through word of mouth from your employees.

• Honesty is the number one thing in culture building and sustaining.

• How to manage a strong work-life balance.

• Transitioning back to face-to-face work.

• How in-person networking suffers for online events.

• The importance of including employee families in strong company culture.

• Setting email expectations.

• Failure and innovation.

• The power of personality assessments.

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