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

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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