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Question: What is the number one need for success in business today?

Answer: To persuade others of your value and the value of your ideas.

So What Is Influencing?

Influencing i

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

s getting your own way, especially unobtrusively.

Most managers do it, most of the time.

• You can influence others simply be being you (notice how easily children are influenced by the behaviour of

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

Examples of combination products may in

those around them)
• You can influence covertly, behind the scenes
• You can use more open strategies and tactics

Great influencers manage to get other people to go along with their ideas w

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

hilst maintaining the relationship. If people feel manipulated, relationships will be damaged. It is important to understand the different strategies available to you and to plan your approach.

Ma

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

tering The Art:

Increasingly today’s managers are measured by their ability to influence others in the workplace. Being able to get people to do what you want has a direct effect on:

• The well-

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

Combination pro

eing of your staff
• The prosperity of your company
• And, ultimately, your own destiny

You are probably already successful at influencing others – some of the time. How can you become cons

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

istently successful? If you can identify your strengths and weaknesses and make a few changes, nothing can hold you back.

Typical Areas Of Open Influence:

A lot of the time, especially in bus

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

ness, influencing is necessary and we accept it as part of human communication. It operates openly and usually follows a recognised process. Open influence can be seen in:

- Meetings

- Presentations

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

- Sales conversations

- Debates and discussions

- Change management

- Reports

- Proposals

- Negotiations

- Performance management

- Process management

Typical Areas Of Hidden Influence
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
:

Influence can also operate in a less open and direct manner. Your behaviour will be noticed by others, even though you are not necessarily trying to influence them. Your words will always be interp
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
eted, however subtle or oblique. In short – whether we mean to influence or not – we are constantly beaming out influential messages to the world.

Hidden influence, which is often delicate, slow and
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a
on-going, works well in the following areas:

- Changing an image or behaviour

- Altering attitude

- Networking

- Communicating non-verbally

- Developing and maintaining rapport

- Counselling oth
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

- Acting as a mentor

- Maintaining customer relations

- Using metaphor and analogy

- Nurturing relationships

What Makes An Effective Influencer?

Winning influencers share attitudes and
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
behaviours that ensure consistent success. Studies have shown that they:

- Indicate the benefits of their ideas

- Neutralise resistance, preferably in advance

- Find alternative ways to influence
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
thers

- Listen attentively to what others say

- Uncover needs and wants

- Empathise continuously

- Notice how others respond

- Create and maintain rapport throughout

- Eliminate weak statements
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
rom their language

- Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse

In Summary: Five Easy Steps To Influence

Here are the five main steps to effective influential communication. Make this pattern second natur
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
e, leaving you to concentrate on the detail.

Gain Rapport Be on their level, recognise their beliefs and values; match their behaviour patterns and blend your personality characteristics with
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
theirs.

Ask Questions Elicit needs and different responses; probe to identify their motives, attitudes and feeling.

Listen Actively Demonstrate that you are listening: listen with a
.

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
ll your senses; suspend judgement.

Stress Pertinent Benefits Summarise how specific benefits of your proposal accurately reflect their needs.

Work Towards A Decision Ask questions wh
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
ch will force a decision (or rejection); test interest through hypothetical questions; make positive statements which assume their acceptance.

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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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