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It’s getting tougher and tougher out there to get into real estate offices to meet—and hopefully form long-term relationships with agents. So, it’s time to develop new skills and new strate

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

gies. One of these strategies is to offer coaching to agents. Having managed real estate offices for fifteen years, and running my own national agent/leadership coaching program today, I kn

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

w the importance of helping develop people one at a time. However, what most people term coaching—isn’t. So you’ll be effective in a coaching relationship, here are three attributes you mus

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

t set up from the beginning to coach effectively:

1. Choose the appropriate game plan with which to coach
2. Choose ‘coachable’ agents to work with
3. Build your skills to coach

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ffectively

In this article, we’ll discuss choosing the appropriate game plan. In later articles, we’ll discuss the other points. I think choosing the right game plan is the most import

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ant consideration in coaching—and the one that’s most left out. Your Coaching Role There are many coaching programs available today to real estate agents. However, too

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

any of them are just ‘advice columns’. I think that’s because agents who are struggling are looking for someone to give them the ‘right answers’. However, just giving people answers doesn’t

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

get them into action. In fact, it often keeps adults out of action. (Too much information freezes an adult like a ‘deer in the headlights’.) Coaching isn’t just advice at all. According to

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

Tim Gallwey, author of The Inner Game of Work, coaching is “the facilitation of mobility.” Your role in coaching is to

1. Provide a foundational game plan from which to coach
2. Provi

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

de observation, positive reinforcement, and redirection to that game plan

Choose the Appropriate Game Plan from Which to Coach The main reason agents want ‘right answ

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

r advice’ is that they have no foundation from which to make business decisions. Most new agents have no business start-up plan. Most experienced agents have no business plans. I call these

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

‘game plans’. Think about coaching baseball. All good coaches use game plans. Their players know the rules, they know their roles, and they agree to play those roles. They have been taught

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

the ‘game plan’. They are coached in their performance throughout that ‘game plan’.

You Must Provide the Game Plans Having written these game plans and coached agents and

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

leadership to them for almost three decades, I know the importance of using a game plan. In addition, I know that whatever game plan the real estate professional follows, it will have a hug

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

e impression on the outcomes he gets. For example, I have seen some very poor game plans for new agents. They’re poorly defined and prioritized activities, which will result in a ‘low produ

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

er’ business. But, new agents don’t know the difference. So, they blithely follow the plan—and get poor results. Experienced agents may tell you they have business plans—but they really do

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

n’t. A real business plan consists of 6 parts. However, most agents have only one. And, it’s those other five parts that provide the insights and guidance the agent (and you as coach) needs

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

to make the right decisions for that agent. Are You Helping Them With Their Marketing? Agents need help, especially when they are are new. Once they have a business pl

.

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

an together it is important that they begin putting themselves in a position where they can market themselves effectively. This is very important. A good online strategy is key. There a

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

e many companies that provide services, however VirtualAgentOffice.com is by far one of the best out there. If you want your agents to start bringing in business, this is the place to come

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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