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Interpersonal Project Management Skills for the Life Sciences Industries Training Course

This two-day interactive course covers the essential interpersonal skills needed to excel as a life sciences project manager.

10-11 April 2025
+ 29-30 September 2025, 22-23 January 2026 »

from £1199

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Course overview

Interpersonal skills are not just ‘nice-to-have’ but are ‘must-haves’ for any successful pharmaceutical project manager. These skills complement the technical aspects of project management, making you not just a manager, but a leader. The course combines theoretical knowledge with practical exercises tailored to real-world pharmaceutical project management.
Topics include communication strategies, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, cross-functional team management, and effective collaboration. Investing in these skills will not only make you more effective in your role but also contribute to a more successful and harmonious work environment. 

This course forms part of our selection of Animal Health training courses, designed to keep you up to date with the latest regulations surrounding veterinary medicines, animal feeds, and industry best practices.

Benefits of attending

By the end of this course, participants will:

  • Develop effective communication strategies for diverse stakeholders
  • Understand the dynamics of cross-functional collaboration in pharmaceutical projects
  • Learn conflict resolution techniques specific to high-stakes environments
  • Build emotional intelligence for better team engagement and performance
  • Cultivate leadership and influencing skills to enhance project success

Who should attend?

This course has been specifically designed to address the needs of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical professionals, as well as those in the medical device, animal health and other life science industries.

The programme will benefit both newly appointed and established project team leaders and managers wishing to refresh or update their skills.

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This course will cover:

Understanding the role of interpersonal skills in pharmaceutical project management

  • Defining interpersonal skills: their importance in regulated environments
  • The role of interpersonal skills in achieving project milestones
  • Identifying interpersonal challenges unique to the pharmaceutical industry

Effective communication with cross-functional teams

  • Effective communication and how to gain project buy-in
  • Preventing and overcoming misunderstandings
  • Tailoring communication to diverse audiences
  • Strategies for improving virtual and face-to-face communication
  • Communicating effectively with the project stakeholders including cross-culturally

Stakeholder management and influencing skills

  • Mapping and prioritising stakeholders in pharmaceutical projects
  • Stakeholder management including how to influence without authority
  • Engaging with project stakeholders
  • Influencing skills

Emotional intelligence and self-management

  • Self-awareness and managing emotions under pressure
  • Building empathy and understanding team dynamics
  • Strategies for maintaining resilience during setbacks

Building a leadership presence

  • Key traits of effective leaders in pharmaceutical projects
  • Improving your interpersonal skills as a leader
  • Establishing credibility and building trust
  • Communicating a clear vision and inspiring others

Project team development

  • Recognising the stages of team development
  • How to modify your leadership style to get the best results in a project team environment
  • Leveraging team strengths to improve outcomes
  • Matrix management 

Cross-functional team dynamics and collaboration

  • Encouraging synergy across diverse functional areas and working styles
  • Overcoming barriers to collaboration
  • Building relationships that foster long-term teamwork

Motivating the team

  • Understand how to motivate different people and what motivates your project team
  • Techniques for maintaining engagement during long-term projects
  • Celebrating successes and learning from failures

Conflict resolution and problem-solving in pharmaceutical projects

  • Overcoming problems and root cause analysis
  • Building relationships that foster long-term teamwork with different working styles
  • Managing conflict

Project timeline management

  • Identifying and managing common time-wasting activities in your projects
  • Maximising your prime time to improve your personal performance
  • Develop strategies to optimise time management to address delays and stay on track

Creating personalised action plans

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Laura Brown
Independent Pharmaceutical Consultant

Dr Laura Brown is an independent pharmaceutical project management and training consultant and Senior Lecturer for the MSc in Clinical Research at the School of Pharmacy, University of Cardiff. Laura has more than 20 years’ experience of managing projects in the pharmaceutical industry and has worked for several companies including GSK, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Good Clinical Research Practices and Phoenix International. Laura has completed an MBA, with specialisation in project management. She is also the external project management expert for a pharmaceutical e-learning MSc module in project management and the author of two books on the subject including the leading title, Project Management for the Pharmaceutical Industry.

More details

NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:

  • 30% off the 2nd delegate*
  • 40% off the 3rd delegate*
  • 50% off the 4th delegate*

Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates

10-11 April 2025

Live online

09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 15547

  • GBP 1,199 1,399
  • EUR 1,679 1,959
  • USD 1,927 2,239

Until 06 Mar

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for 7 days, no obligation

29-30 September 2025

Live online

09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 15548

  • GBP 1,199 1,399
  • EUR 1,679 1,959
  • USD 1,927 2,239

Until 25 Aug

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for 7 days, no obligation

22-23 January 2026

Live online

09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+01)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 15549

  • GBP 1,199 1,399
  • EUR 1,679 1,959
  • USD 1,927 2,239

Until 18 Dec

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* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.

Run Interpersonal Project Management Skills for the Life Sciences Industries Live online for your team

2 days

Typical duration

Pricing from:

  • GBP 800
  • Per attendee, based on 10 attendees
  • Course tailored to your requirements
  • At your choice of location, or online

 

We can customise this course to your requirements and deliver it on an in-house basis for any number of your staff or colleagues.

Contact our in-house training experts Aleksandra Beer and Yesim Nurko to discuss your requirements:

Multiple colleagues? See above for details of our discounts for 2, 3, or 4 delegates. For more, talk to one of our training experts to discuss how to:

Run this course conveniently and cost-effectively in-house for your staff and colleagues

Aleksandra Beer

Aleksandra BEER
Training expert

Yesim Nurko

Yesim NURKO
Training expert

+44 (0)20 7749 4749

inhouse@ipi.academy