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    Is there a difference between Influence and Persuasion? Yes there is.

    Influence is the process of changing someone’s behavior.

    To persuade is to alter someone’s attitude or beliefs.

    Are the two similar in nature? Sure. But they are not the same and often times many people confuse the two.

    While persuasion can be a tool to
    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
    create influence, as an employee – influence is far more important. Having less customer complaints and higher sales can only come from a positive change in the customer’s behavior.

    Here’s something interesting – there is an old wives tale that the ability to influence is a character attribute some possess and others do not. I
    ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

    Examples of combination products may in
    t’s true for some people; the power to influence comes naturally. However there is good news for everyone else. There’s been research conducted over the past 30 years that indicates virtually anyone can apply the principles of influence to change the outcome of any personal interaction. This research is based upon extensive obs
    lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

    ervation of leading salespeople inside a wide variety of industries. By studying individuals in sales situations, scientists have been able to identify certain patterns of behavior and speech that increase the likelihood of someone saying yes to a request.

    How Understanding the Principles of Influence Can Lead to Employee Lo
    here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
    yalty.

    According to Robert B. Cialdini PhD, there are 6 universal principles of influence. Today, in this field, Dr. Cialdini is the most-cited living Social Psychologist in the world. Additionally, he has a reputation as the seminal expert in the science of influence. Dr. Cialdini's bestseller, INFLUENCE, has been publishe
    d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

    Combination pro
    d in 20 different languages and in 23 different countries. It has been consistently ranked in the top one percent on AMAZON.com.

    The Principles of Influence.

    First, reciprocation. People give back to you the kind of treatment that they have received from you.

    Second is scarcity. People will try to seize the opportunitie
    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
    s that you offer them that are rare or dwindling in availability.

    Third, authority. People will be most persuaded by you when they see you as having knowledge and credibility on the topic.

    Fourth, commitment. People will feel a need to comply with your request if it is consistent with what they have publicly committed themselve
    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
    s to in your presence.

    Fifth, liking. People prefer to say yes to your request to the degree that they know and like you.

    And finally is consensus. People will be likely to say yes to your request if you give them evidence that people just like them have been saying yes to it.

    Now before we jump into each of them and explain h
    nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
    ow each one can transform the way you currently train and communicate – it’s important to understand that not everyone uses them optimally. In his own research, Dr. Cialdini was able to detect three kinds of influence practitioners. There are bunglers of influence, there are smugglers of influence, and then there are sleuths or
    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
    detectives of influence.

    Bunglers are the people who fumble away their chances to use the principles in a beneficial way, either because they don’t know what the principles are or because they don’t know how to engage them properly. These people are always dropping the ball when it comes to the influence process.

    Smugglers, on
    ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
    he other hand, do know, quite well, what the principles are and how they work. But they import these principles into situations where they don’t naturally exist. An example would be a salesperson who pretended to be an authority on a particular computer system in order to get a customer to buy it. Although the smuggler’s approac
    ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

    Following aspects would a
    h often works in the short run, it’s deadly in the long run. Because only one person (the smuggler wins). The customer, who gets fooled into buying the wrong system, will be unhappy with it and will be unlikely to ever return to that salesperson or dealer for future business.

    As a trainer – the smuggler would be the trainer who
    dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

    Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
    Which combination prod
    “passes the buck” of knowledge – never taking the time to understand the true goal of what it is they are trying to teach. Whether it is in understanding the company’s goals, or keying in on how the information they are teaching will be used in the workplace or at a customer’s office... the smuggler is usually clueless to both.
    cts are meaningful and rational?
    Which therapeutic categories to select?
    Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
    Do combin

    Finally, there are the sleuths of influence, who are more knowledgeable than bunglers, more ethical than smugglers, and overall more successful than either. They approach each influence opportunity as a detective, looking to uncover and use only those principles that are truly part of the situation, and that, therefore, will ste
    tions increase the patient compliance?
    What would be the developing cost?
    How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
    er people correctly when to say yes.

    So, for instance, if our computer salesperson genuinely was an expert on a particular type of system that a customer was interested in, it would be foolish not to share this information with the customer right at the outset.

    The training sleuth, on the other hand approaches each opportunity
    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
    with a cadet or trainee as a detective – looking to uncover hidden motivations and hot buttons that are specific to the individual. It is in understanding these items and relating to them – where the true engagement process begins.

    To learn more about the power of engagement and how it can instantly change the performance and m
    ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

    Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
    otivation of your employees, go to: www.cruisecontroltraining.com

    When people are engaged, they learn easier and remember much clearer. And if the salesperson, in the above example had been good enough as a detective to find out that one particular system had a unique feature that no other system had, he or she would be a bung
    y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
    ler not to say so and make use of this scarcity principle that was a natural part of that situation.

    All in all - it’s not sufficient to know what the most powerful principles of influence are. We have to train ourselves to search every influence situation for the principles that reside there naturally, and to use only those pri
    .

    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
    nciples. That way, both parties can benefit.

    Our system, OmniTrackPlus (www.omnitrackplus.com/autopilot.htm) is an online training and development system that allows you to put your entire training program, on autopilot. Online training has never been so simple and yet, so effective. With the system’s proven, robust automatio
    elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

    Companies that provide selfless information through particip
    n tools, you have the ability to systematically engage, interact with and influence your trainees... while you sleep.

    In Part 2 of this article, we’ll begin to dissect the first three principles and what they mean to you as the educator, motivator and cultivator of employees.

    Copyright © 2006 George Ritacco (All Rights Reserved


    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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