MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PROFESSIONALS

One day

Key Objectives:

• Strategic Thinking and Decision Making Tools (within your role)

• Leadership and managing change in the pharmaceutical industry

• Effective Communication

• Problem Solving and Prioritising your workload in the pharmaceutical industry

• Understanding how to link the tools together to maximise your effectiveness

PROGRAMME

Strategic Thinking and Decision Making Tools

• What business are you in and how do you to maximise your value creating activities?
• Diagnosing strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats (your own SWOT analysis)
• Environmental analysis

Leadership and managing change in the pharmaceutical industry: Pharmaceutical Case study

• Your role of as leader
• How you should managing change successfully in the pharmaceutical industry (eg mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, and co-development deals)
• The improvement Cycle - how to become even better

• Communicating effectively with your staff and senior management
• Stakeholder analysis the tool, techniques and tips
• Stakeholder agenda analysis - how to understand and influence your manager, your peers, subordinates’ agendas
• Effective international communication in the pharmaceutical industry – guidelines for international etiquette
• An effective meeting management framework

• Root Cause (“Fishbone”) analysis
• Force field  analysis - overcoming difficulty
• Scenario planning – in your role
• Prioritisation your issues:
• AID (Attractiveness – Implementation Difficulty) analysis
• Urgent vs Importance analysis

Understanding how to link the tools together to maximise your effectiveness

Action Planning

• Preparing a personal action plan to incorporate what you have learnt into the workplace and your role  - to perform even better and advance your career