Peg Neuhauser
Specialist in Corporate Culture and Communication
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Austin, Texas, United States
Peg Neuhauser
Biography
Peg Neuhauser has worked for over twenty years as a management and organizational consultant specializing in the areas of conflict management, organizational culture, avoiding burnout. In 1984, she established her own company and works with clients in many industries including healthcare, high tech, finance and publishing.
Ms. Neuhauser completed studies in the United States and England with an M.A. in psychology and undergraduate work in sociology. She worked as an internal consultant for Hospital Corporation of America developing services and programs for both corporate and hospital clients. In addition to working as a designer, trainer and consultant, Peg Neuhauser also managed financial systems conversions which involved training and consultation in the technical and accounting divisions.
She is the author of four books, "I Should Be Burnt Out by Now, So How Come I'm Not?, "Tribal Warfare in Organizations," "Corporate Legends & Lore" and "Culture.com: Building Corporate Culture in the Connected Workplace."
As a speaker and consultant, Peg Neuhauser offers practical tips for action to create a more innovative and adaptive organization. Her focus is on increasing collaboration in cross-functional teams, improving relationships among work colleagues, avoiding burn out, and strengthening the organization's culture to focus on its goals more effectively. Her stories, case examples, and humor illustrate each idea in a way that is both entertaining and easy to remember.
Peg Neuhauser
Featured Keynote Programs
Bringing Cultures Together After the Merger
There is a great deal of talk these days about organizational culture and its impact on the long term performance of a company. It is generally agreed that culture is important, but many people are not at all clear what their organization's culture is, what it should be, and whether there is really any hope that it can be changed if needed. As an organization struggles to become more customer driven, quality focused, or innovative, the people inside that organization know there needs to be fundamental change in how the organization operates. Exactly what needs to change and how to go about changing it is not so clear.
With all the mergers, partnerships, and restructuring going on in organizations these days, clashes between the cultures are inevitable. People do not give up their old ways or blend two groups with different customs and histories without a struggle. Ordering people to change rarely works. The conflicts do not go away; they just go underground. To change or blend cultures requires negotiation to develop new ground rules and common agreements about how the groups will work together in the future.
This presentation guides participants through their own current cultures and to help them identify specific changes and common agreements that are needed.
Building a Corporate Culture that Helps Your Organization Succeed
There is no one "right" culture for all organizations. The right culture is the one that helps you succeed at accomplishing your goals. If your company's goals have change, you probably need to change your culture too. These days many organizations are making substantial changes in their business strategies to become more customer-driven, more results oriented, or more innovative. Peg Neuhauser offers practical tips on how to build and maintain your corporate culture to succeed in today's world. Neuhauser has written three books on corporate culture: Culture.com, Tribal Warfare in Organizations, Corporate Legends and Lore.
Building a High Retention Culture in Healthcare
One of the biggest challenges in healthcare these days is recruitment and retention. There are labor shortages in many healthcare professions. On a broader scale, all business and professions are competing for the same pool of talented people. No matter what the state of the economy, the best and the brightest are always in demand.
Much is being done in healthcare to improve the ability to recruit new staff effectively. But once you have hired them, can you keep them? And what can you do to retain the experienced professionals who are the backbone of your organization?It's no mystery why people stay and why they leave. And in most cases, it is not just about money. Create a compelling place to work and your turnover rates will drop. It's simple-people stay because they like it here.
Collaborative Negotiation Skills
A large percentage of a person's daily communications is some form of negotiation such as problem solving or persuasion. The art of influencing is a major component of all these situations. There is a range of negotiation skills that include everything from a highly competitive, tactical approach to a highly collaborative, joint problem solving approach. The focus of this presentation is how to use the more collaborative approach with work colleagues. A step-by-step process is presented and practiced by participants using their own real work situations.
