The Leadership and Management Summer School for Pharma Professionals In-house Training

Overview

Working in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, with ever-increasing change and pressure, is probably one of the most challenging managerial roles of any industry today. This Summer School has been especially designed to help you transcend these challenges by training you to become equipped to see the bigger picture in all aspects of your role.

This Pharma Mini MBA accelerated management programme is a distillation of the most valuable parts of an MBA, as applied to the pharmaceutical industry.

Please note:

• Pre-course work (sent out to delegates prior to the course):
  • Diagnostic questionnaire – your strategic competencies
  • Discussions of diagnostic output/other areas of value
• Despite the virtual nature of this webinar, it has been designed to take advantage of the BigBlueButton platform. During Module 1 (days 1 & 2) participants will be expected to participate both visually and with audio (seen and heard) throughout the sessions.

This training course is part of our collection of Leadership & Management Training Courses which focus on leadership, innovation, strategy, communication, finance, problem solving and conflict management, to name a few key areas.

Module 1 - Positive Persuading and Influencing Skills for Pharma Professionals

This module will help you to build confidence and acquire the necessary skills to increase your personal effectiveness in dealing with colleagues, clients, bosses and stakeholders across the pharmaceutical industry.

Dynamically designed and delivered, the interactive programme focuses on best practice tips and techniques that will allow you to strengthen and perfect your influencing ability in three key areas:

• Improved inter-dependent working across functions and even cultural boundaries
• Increased self-awareness – gaining insights in how you come across to others
• Great communication, self-projection and influencing skills

Core objectives:

• Identify some of the more challenging obstacles to effective communication
• Learn how to prepare for one-to-one and one-to-group communication
• Acquire and practise communication skills which lead to improved relationships in the workplace
• Explore strategies for handling difficult people and situations
• Learn how to work with individuals from different functions and cultural backgrounds
• Develop a personal effectiveness ‘action plan’ for the future

Module 2 - The Pharma Mini MBA

This intensive three-day module will help you to translate your learning into new behaviours and improvements in your capability and performance and will work through live issues impacting on the industry and on you directly. The individual and group exercises will focus on pharmaceutical/biopharma/generic MBA case studies, and also on your own challenges and examples.

The business school case studies will help give the ‘feel’ of a full MBA and help you understand more about the strategies used in today’s pharmaceutical and associated industries.

Core objectives

• Develop your understanding of the key techniques of an MBA to apply to your work
• Gain a greater understanding of the pharma industry, its drivers, challenges and opportunities
• Hear about the latest strategic technology innovations being used and developed in the pharma industry
• Understand what strategic thinking is and how to use strategy tools
• Develop your leadership and strategic skills
• Become more effective in coping with and managing change in the pharma industry
• Explore the benefits and costs of doing an MBA
• Take away a Mini MBA toolkit to apply to your job
• Discuss and learn from real pharma industry case studies

Who should attend?

This is a ‘must-attend’ for professionals in the pharmaceutical/biopharma/medical device/animal health industries wishing to develop their business management skills for more senior levels and beyond mere technical ability. It will also help anyone thinking of studying for an MBA who would like an idea of what is involved. It is particularly beneficial to attend with a colleague to maximise the practical learning.

It is also relevant for:

• Experienced line managers and leaders
• Newly appointed managers
• Functional or department heads
• Project or team leaders
• Technical support specialists
• Advisers and consultants