Positive Persuading and Influencing Skills for Pharma Professionals

Overview

This two-day workshop will help you to build confidence and acquire the necessary skills to increase your personal effectiveness in dealing with colleagues, clients, bosses and stakeholders across the pharmaceutical industry. Dynamically designed and delivered, the interactive programme focuses on best practice tips and techniques that will allow you to strengthen and perfect your influencing ability in three key areas:

• Improved inter-dependent working across functions and even cultural boundaries
• Increased self-awareness – gaining insights in how you come across to others
• Great communication, self-projection and influencing skills

Attending this seminar will help you to understand and define behaviours which lead to effective interpersonal communication at different levels, both inside and outside the organisation.

Benefits of attending:

• Identify some of the more challenging obstacles to effective communication
• Learn how to prepare for one-to-one and one-to-group communication
• Acquire and practise communication skills which lead to improved relationships in the workplace
• Explore strategies for handling difficult people and situations
• Learn how to work with individuals from different functions and cultural backgrounds
• Develop a personal effectiveness ‘action plan’ for the future

Who Should Attend?

This course will be relevant for anyone working in the pharmaceutical, medical device or animal health industries who wants to improve their influencing skills in the workplace, including:

• Experienced line managers and leaders
• Newly appointed managers
• Functional or department heads
• Project or team leaders
• Technical support specialists
• Advisers and consultants