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Negotiation In a time of change
09-May-17
In the pharma industry the one business dynamic we can all be confident in over the coming years is change. Political change, market disrupters such as the way we utilise technology and the innovation of new market solutions. Operating in a forward-thinking industry requires not only strong business acumen but the foresight to recognise the critical changes ahead, the enablers which are often business partnerships, relationships or contracts and how as a business leader you can best prepare your teams for such inevitabilities.  If we accept that our job is to realise strategies ...

Ten things to know before becoming an interim manager
09-May-17
The interim management industry provides an often hidden, but essential role supporting the UK economy. Interims are proven executives who can be deployed on a short-term basis to support an organisation during a period of change, transition or crisis. Why people make the switch Changing career can be a daunting prospect, particularly for those who have been in similar roles throughout their working life. For many professionals, jumping in to an interim lifestyle is a great opportunity to take control over their own career, become their own boss, adopt a better work-life balance and ...

Nurturing talent
09-May-17
In the book of business buzz-phrases, ‘employee engagement’ occupies a pretty sizeable chapter. And, over the past decade, it’s a chapter that’s become incredibly well-thumbed. But are its virtues translating to the workplace? Perhaps not. In 2013, a Gallup study of the global workplace found that just 13% of employees felt ‘engaged’ with their work. More recently, a Virgin Pulse study revealed that around 70% of the American workforce is disengaged, pointing out that less-engaged employees are four times more likely to quit their job. The cost of replacing disengaged employees is, of ...

People have the power
08-May-17
What is the secret to engaging employees? A selection of sandwiches from Pret a Manger is often the first response of those who rank employee engagement and internal communication low on their priority list. A free meal pretty much ensures good attendance at a lunchtime talk, doesn’t it? This may well be true, but for the savvy communicator the answer is far more complex. Employee engagement has a return on investment as meaningful as the marketing and sales targets that keep pharma execs awake at night. Employees are brand ambassadors. Engaged, their willingness to back the vision and ...

On Flexibility
27-Jan-17
Over more than three years of conversation around people’s lives and careers in healthcare communications, I have heard hundreds of stories about career moves; both extremely positive, and unfortunately negative. We work in a remarkably fluid space compared with many other industries, and many of you will change roles within the next two years. How can you ensure that you are making the right move for you? First and foremost, you must ask if the company has a clear vision, and one that you agree with. Is the position offering the kind of progression opportunities that will make this the right ...

The world needs exemplary leaders
27-Oct-16
There’s a leadership shortage in the world. It’s not a shortage of potential talent. The people are out there. The eagerness is out there. The resources are out there. The capability is out there. The shortage is a result of three primary factors: demographic shifts, insufficient training and experiences, and the prevailing mindsets that discourage people from learning to lead. Currently 25% of the global workforce comprises millennials (those born between 1981 and 1997) and in some countries that number approaches 50%. (There are differing opinions on the exact years when the millennial ...

Team building
13-Jun-16
In his classic book, Good To Great, Jim Collins talks about the importance of successful companies getting ‘the right people on the bus’, a euphemism for hiring and retaining employees who fit a company’s culture. It is a concept that is relatively simple and makes perfect sense, yet somehow it is often overlooked, as too many leaders hire mostly for competency and technical skills. For organisations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I’m convinced that ‘the right people’ are the ones who have these three virtues in common - humility, hunger and people smarts. I refer ...

10 steps to being a better manager
06-Jan-16
Functional leaders promoted to executive positions often find themselves lost at sea – unfamiliar not only with the responsibilities surrounding their new role but unsure of the skills and tools necessary to execute them successfully. The marketing manager promoted to partner; the communications lead moved up to the boardroom; the unit head who suddenly finds himself at the executive table. Individuals in such positions tend to quickly discover that the knowledge and capabilities that allowed them to thrive in their previous job have little bearing on the new one, and that a whole new set of ...

16 Career Coaches Reveal the Worst Careers Advice They’ve Heard
30-Mar-15
We’ve all been on the receiving end of careers advice often from family, loved ones or our peers. Some of it good but a lot of it can be bad or outdated. In order to see how “bad” bad was we asked 16 career coaches to share the worst advice they’ve heard and here’s what they had to say: Abby Kohut - absolutelyabby.com The worst career advice I ever received was to add keywords in a white font on your resume. What the career coach said was that if you add hundreds of keywords in white, you'll come up in more searches. What he failed to realize is that applicant tracking systems and career ...

Closing the gender gap: Q&A with Ffyona Dawber
02-Feb-15
Ffyona Dawber, founder and managing director of Synergy Vision, is one of the leading women in UK healthcare communications. Towards the end of 2014 she received double honours at the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. She won gold for ‘Female Entrepreneur of the Year - Business Services - 11 to 2,500 Employees’ category and silver for ‘Woman of the Year – Business Services’. How did it feel to be recognised at the Stevie Awards? It was a thrill. But I think, overall, the recognition from clients when we get repeat business and they come back with positive feedback that’s somewhat nicer ...

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