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E-Folder - Team Building Tips - Take Your Team from Great to Extraordinary
Whether you are an organization, or a professional responsible for facilitating the team building process of a team or group, the following tips are ensured to give you some new ideas on how to accelerate your team building initiatives:
1. Create a Common Vision
A common vision for all team members is esse
1. Create a Common Vision
A common vision for all team members is esse
According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product
ntial for team building and organizational success. Spend time visioning as a team – what you want to create and where you want to go. This visioning time should also enable you to celebrate your current successes!
Ask Yourself: How clear is our vision? Do all team members hold the same vision?
2. Develop Co
Ask Yourself: How clear is our vision? Do all team members hold the same vision?
2. Develop Co
; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.
Examples of combination products may in
Examples of combination products may in
mon Goals
Ensure that your organizational/project and program goals are understood and supported by all team members. All team members need to understand how their efforts are feeding into the larger objectives.
Ask Yourself: Do all team members know what role they play in supporting our larger team/organizat
Ensure that your organizational/project and program goals are understood and supported by all team members. All team members need to understand how their efforts are feeding into the larger objectives.
Ask Yourself: Do all team members know what role they play in supporting our larger team/organizat
lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.
ional goals? Is everyone clear on what those goals are?
3. Clarify Roles and Responsibilities
One of the main challenges for organizations and groups to move ahead to where they really want to be is due to a lack of clarity on individual roles and responsibilities. Clarifying these roles can help in supp
3. Clarify Roles and Responsibilities
One of the main challenges for organizations and groups to move ahead to where they really want to be is due to a lack of clarity on individual roles and responsibilities. Clarifying these roles can help in supp
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
rting and achieving your common vision and goals.
Ask yourself: “How clear is our staff in understanding their specific roles? Their specific responsibilities? Where do roles and responsibilities overlap between individual team members? Where do roles and responsibilities overlap with other departments.
4. En
Ask yourself: “How clear is our staff in understanding their specific roles? Their specific responsibilities? Where do roles and responsibilities overlap between individual team members? Where do roles and responsibilities overlap with other departments.
4. En
d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.
Combination pro
Combination pro
ure Management Support
Supervisors and managers play a key role in “keeping the learning alive”. Ensure that supervisors, managers and owners are following up with staff regarding what their needs are, and how team building efforts can be enhanced. Managers also play a key role in ensuring that the learning f
Supervisors and managers play a key role in “keeping the learning alive”. Ensure that supervisors, managers and owners are following up with staff regarding what their needs are, and how team building efforts can be enhanced. Managers also play a key role in ensuring that the learning f
ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc
rom team building initiatives is brought back to the office.
Ask yourself: What systems do we currently have in place to ensure that the learning is sustained? Can we discuss this in staff meetings? Do we have a coaching program in place?
5. Use Engaging Exercises
Team building can be fun and challengin
Ask yourself: What systems do we currently have in place to ensure that the learning is sustained? Can we discuss this in staff meetings? Do we have a coaching program in place?
5. Use Engaging Exercises
Team building can be fun and challengin
easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi
, supporting teams to reach their highest potential. Ensure that participants are engaged and challenged through the process. Consider bringing in an experienced external facilitator to support your efforts, and even run a train-the-trainer program with your staff.
Ask Yourself: What types of activities or exercis
Ask Yourself: What types of activities or exercis
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
es would work best for our team members? What are the topics of relevance for them?
6. Take it out of the office
Holding team building sessions in the office can be disruptive and distracting. The lure of email, voice mail and urgent items often take precedence to a full team in-office experience. Reduce
6. Take it out of the office
Holding team building sessions in the office can be disruptive and distracting. The lure of email, voice mail and urgent items often take precedence to a full team in-office experience. Reduce
and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ
veryday distractions by holding team building sessions outside of the office.
Ask Yourself: What type of environment would our staff team benefit from? Some organizations prefer a more “corporate” formal team building session, while others embrace nature and the outdoors.
7. Create An Action Plan
Create
Ask Yourself: What type of environment would our staff team benefit from? Some organizations prefer a more “corporate” formal team building session, while others embrace nature and the outdoors.
7. Create An Action Plan
Create
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
n action plan to make the team building part of your everyday work or life. Often retreat days or team building programs have few links with everyday business or organizational objectives. Ensure that when designing the program you create links to the organization or to everyday life so that participants can “bring
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.
Following aspects would a
Following aspects would a
the learning home”. This can be done by building into the program formal action planning time, and having managers follow up during regular staff meetings. Coaching can be leveraged to keep the “learning alive” after team building events. Research whether individual, team or group coaching will work best for your
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
rganization.
Ask Yourself: What can we do to support and sustain individual and team action planning? What current systems do we have to revisit the action plans? Some examples may include staff meetings, manager check-ins, internal/external coaching.
8. Spend time learning what your team members need
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Ask Yourself: What can we do to support and sustain individual and team action planning? What current systems do we have to revisit the action plans? Some examples may include staff meetings, manager check-ins, internal/external coaching.
8. Spend time learning what your team members need
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cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
eating a group or organizational context where communication is open, and individual team members feel comfortable bringing their needs up, will make teambuilding efforts more focused and productive.
Find out exactly what team members are looking for to enhance their work and efforts before the team building event
Find out exactly what team members are looking for to enhance their work and efforts before the team building event
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
This can be done by the facilitator and/or the team building committee, through email questionnaires, focus groups, or individual meetings
One of the most common pitfalls of team building initiatives is that it does not match the needs of the team. Ensure you invest enough time before the event itself to assess w
One of the most common pitfalls of team building initiatives is that it does not match the needs of the team. Ensure you invest enough time before the event itself to assess w
t?
As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
at team members really want.
Ask Yourself: What are the top three priorities for our team members? What is the best way to find this out from individual members?
9. Keep it Regular
Once a year team building programs can do a lot for boosting morale on the short-term, but ask yourself, “What would it be l
Ask Yourself: What are the top three priorities for our team members? What is the best way to find this out from individual members?
9. Keep it Regular
Once a year team building programs can do a lot for boosting morale on the short-term, but ask yourself, “What would it be l
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
ike if we did something more often?”. Imagine the results!
Using the same facilitator over successive programs can often give added traction to the event. Trust and understanding of the team is usually higher each successive event, when using the same facilitator.
Ask Yourself: What amount of time can we commit t
Using the same facilitator over successive programs can often give added traction to the event. Trust and understanding of the team is usually higher each successive event, when using the same facilitator.
Ask Yourself: What amount of time can we commit t
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
team building efforts in our organization this year? What will that look like?
10. Have Fun!
Most importantly, team building initiatives should be fun and engaging for all staff members. They should be relevant and meaningful for the team. Design with the facilitator(s) what structure and topics will gi
10. Have Fun!
Most importantly, team building initiatives should be fun and engaging for all staff members. They should be relevant and meaningful for the team. Design with the facilitator(s) what structure and topics will gi
.
As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
ve your team the most leverage.
Ask Yourself: What would fun look like for us, given our organizational culture and philosophy?
Look to integrate some of these ideas and systems into your next team building initiative, whether it is a retreat, team coaching, or a workshop, to build a more extraordinary, sustained
Ask Yourself: What would fun look like for us, given our organizational culture and philosophy?
Look to integrate some of these ideas and systems into your next team building initiative, whether it is a retreat, team coaching, or a workshop, to build a more extraordinary, sustained
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
productive team.
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tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products
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