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5 Ways Senior Leadership Can Inspire a Top-Performing Sales Culture [SlideShare]

The Brooks Group

Developing a healthy sales culture starts at the top with senior leadership. Check out 5 ways senior leadership can empower a top-performing sales culture in this quick slideshow. 5 Ways Senior Leadership Can Empower a Top Performing Sales Culture from The Brooks Group. download. NOTE: Our sales training tools are designed to make your life easier. Use them to your advantage.

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Taking health wearables to the next level – where is the market heading?

pharmaphorum

With rising healthcare costs, more informed and engaged patients, and advancing technology, health wearables have seen a significant uptake in recent years. However, the full potential of health wearables has yet to be recognised and there are still challenges to be resolved. What needs to be done on the regulatory, technical and healthcare side to take health wearables to the next level?

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What Makes an Exceptional Sales Rep?

MaBiCo

What Makes an Exceptional Sales Rep? Time and again I meet with pharmaceutical sales reps who either because they don’t achieve their sales quotas or because they try to find new ways to improve their already high performance, ask me or their team leaders in what areas they need to improve, how can this improvement happen and if there are any general rules (something like a pattern) that guarantee success and exceptional results in pharmaceutical sales.

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First Year B.Pharmacy Notes

Teachntest

First Year B.Pharmacy Notes If downloading on mobile, please install any suitable ‘PDF reader app’ or ‘Microsoft Office app’ or ‘DocsToGo app’ Pharmaceutics Notes (I Semester) Dosage forms Pharmaceutics definitions P’ceutical Additives P’ceutical excipients list Posology Pharmaceutical Calculations Suppositories Pharmaceutical Incompatibility Ligatures-Sutures Semisolids (NEW) Downlaod: T.1.1.1.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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8 Winning Questions Your Sales Reps Should Be Asking Every Prospect

The Brooks Group

It’s not enough for your salespeople to be product experts , they also need to be capable of having the kind of conversations that position them as business experts and even strategic resources. In order to do that, they should be asking the right questions. They can then use the answers they get to guide and advise their prospects towards making the most appropriate business decisions.

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Closing the Knowing-Doing Gap to Become a Better Leader

The Brooks Group

An average strategy well executed will always outperform a superior business strategy which is poorly executed. . As sales leaders, we are inspired by leadership books, seminars, and articles, but when it comes to translating that inspiration into new behaviors, we often hit a roadblock. . Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, professors of organizational behavior at Stanford, explore this performance paradox in The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action.

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Coaching for Sales Leaders

The Brooks Group

Everyone knows that front-line salespeople need to be coached. It’s an important part of nearly every sales manager’s responsibilities. However, who’s coaching the coaches in your organization ? If your organization is like a lot of others, the answer is either “nobody” or “we’re not quite sure.”. Well, even coaches need coaching. Sales leaders – VPs and even CSOs - struggle to complete the mountain of work they face: reporting, budget management, training, recruiting, onboarding, and dealing wi

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4 Ways a Common Language Helps Ramp-Up New Sales Reps

The Brooks Group

Getting new salespeople up to speed quickly is a pivotal factor separating Best-in-Class organizations from their less productive peers. Research from The Sales Management Association indicates that these firms have 10% greater sales growth rates, and 14% better sales and profit objective achievement. . But actually getting new sellers performing at their highest potential is easier said than done, with one in three salespeople lacking proficiency in about a dozen skills by the time onboarding

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The Sales Coaching Best Practices Series: Evaluation and Feedback

The Brooks Group

. We recently introduced the Sales Coaching Best Practices Series—a mini-series designed to highlight the high-gain coaching activities that EcSell Institute —a research firm specializing in sales coaching, leadership, and management—has identified through their research as having the greatest impact on a sales rep’s ability and willingness to produce at higher levels.

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The Patient Centric Launch – business insights key to success in Europe

pharmaphorum

Join us and PHOENIX group as we delve into the concept of current launch excellence and the role of patient insights in overcoming the multiple challenges the industry currently faces. Key topics to be discussed include: – The challenges of launching a product in Europe – How pharma can improve its understanding of the process through the use of business intelligence – How insights from new data can be applied to the process of launch excellence – The role of real-world data in launch strategy –

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Demand Assessment Research: adopting insights from behavioural economics

pharmaphorum

Over the past 20 years, behavioural economics has identified factors that influence and determine how people behave, including alternative decision-making pathways and many cognitive biases and heuristics. Taking account of these helps to build a clear view of how healthcare customers think and behave in relation to your product in the real world. This short masterclass explores ‘quantitative demand assessment research’ – what it is and how insights from behavioural economics can improve the app

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Sales Force Outsourcing – MaBiCo

MaBiCo

Sales Force Outsourcing – MaBiCo. Many pharmaceutical companies operating in Greece decide to outsource several aspects of their operations for a number of reasons. The most common operations outsourced by pharmaceutical companies include sales ( medical detailing and sales to pharmacies ), promotion ( merchandising , in-store promotions) and regulatory (as well as pharmacovigilance, R&D and clinical trials).

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Getting closer to your customer through video technology

pharmaphorum

Video content accounted for 64% of all the world’s internet traffic in 2014 and is expected to grow to 80% by 2019. As the way in which we connect and digest information evolves, high quality mobile video capture and advanced digital analysis offers ever more authentic, intimate and rich insights into the customers’ world.

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Detailing to Pharmacies

MaBiCo

Detailing to Pharmacies. An increasing number of sales managers in Greece report to their companies incidents of pharmacists who “switch” doctors’ prescriptions and bypass their recommendations. In these cases the patients end up buying a competitive product recommended by the pharmacists instead of those recommended by the doctors. As a result the company invests in the doctors’ line but doesn’t achieve the anticipated ROI.

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Optimizing Clinical Supply Strategy: Navigating Challenges & Finding Your Ideal Model

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Measuring the cost of the right interventions in diabetes

pharmaphorum

Diabetes is one of the most prevalent and most costly conditions worldwide – with a prevalence equating to 8.5% of the global population. Due to the complex nature of diabetes, with numerous co-morbidities and its asymptomatic nature, accurately modelling and therefore discerning which interventions are most effective, in terms of cost and patient impact is an equally complicated process.

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Cancer Treatment Access: Right Strategy, Right Approach, Right Outcomes

pharmaphorum

Join us for a one-hour live debate on Cancer Treatment Access: Right Strategy, Right Approach, Right Outcomes. To ensure funding and patient access to innovative cancer therapies, industry now have to navigate a new English cancer-treatment funding ecosystem, engaging with NICE and NHS England to realise a yes, no or conditional arrangement. How can oncology treatments achieve a positive NICE appraisal in the new world and what will the mechanics of RWE be in the event of conditional funding via

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Establishing a Solid Foundation for Digital Transformation

pharmaphorum

Sanofi Pasteur MSD is transforming its commercial organisation and remodeling its approach to customer engagement. Hear from Sanofi Pasteur MSD’s Alexandre Gultzgoff, Deputy Director, IT, and Antoine Blanc, Commercial Excellence Director, as they share first hand insights on how they are transforming their European commercial operations and improving customer engagement.

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Transforming Medical Affairs with fact-based solutions and improved compliance

pharmaphorum

In today’s competitive, highly regulated environment, product success is dependent upon data and fact-based decision making. More and more, Medical Affairs teams play a pivotal role in education pre- and post-launch, yet the explosion of big data in healthcare is changing how we make value-based decisions that are critical to success. This webinar will explore the challenges Medical Affairs teams have finding a repeatable, objective and compliant solution to identify and manage their strategic p

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Social medical: The social media buzz around ASCO 2016

pharmaphorum

The ASCO Annual Meeting, the largest global oncology meeting and increasingly the centre of a kaleidoscope of social media coverage each year. As a snapshot, 2014 saw 40,000 tweets and 140m+ impressions over the conference days, 2015 grew to 60,000 tweets and 250m+ impressions and the 2016 buzz is already louder and more plentiful than last year. This webinar will examine the conversation around ASCO 2016, its relationship with ASCO, value to and involvement from stakeholder groups and how it wi

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Disrupting and improving customer engagement with predictive insights

pharmaphorum

There are clear benefits for both Life Sciences companies and their customers in significantly improving the way they engage. Be it in terms of reputation, efficiency, profitability, or even relationship quality and longevity, engagement has and will always be the key to successful business practice. Recent exclusive research conducted in conjunction with Zephyr Health revealed that both frontline sales forces and sales management professionals want to improve engagement strategies with new tech

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The Creative Debate: Why creativity is key to true patient centricity in pharma

pharmaphorum

Meeting the needs of both patients, and healthcare professionals, in today's fast changing communications landscape can be challenging, particularly against the backdrop of compliance. Putting creativity at the heart of the process can be the most effective way of tackling these challenges. Although the return on investment of creativity is not always easy to measure, the value it can bring to pharma and healthcare is increasingly evident.

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External Sales Force Commercial Solutions – The future of pharmaceutical sales.

MaBiCo

External Sales Force Commercial Solutions – The future of pharmaceutical sales. As the revenues of big pharmaceutical companies shrink so do the budgets they spend for promotional and sales activities. Furthermore small companies usually can’t afford to maintain a full sales team (for medical detailing and sales to pharmacies ) even if they know that such an investment would bring them additional revenue.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Med-Reps Vs Pharmacy Sales Reps: Who will take charge of pharmaceutical sales in Greece in the following years?

MaBiCo

Med-Reps Vs. Pharmacy Sales Reps: Who will take charge of pharmaceutical sales in Greece in the following years? The pharmaceutical sales model in Greece goes through a major transition. Pharmaceutical companies need to adapt to a new business environment described by a significantly lower spending power both by the Greek National Health System and by the individual patient-consumer.

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Patient centricity 101: How to create content that REALLY communicates

pharmaphorum

According to the European Commission and NIHR Clinical Research Network, between 2007 and 2011, delays for launching clinical trials rose by 90%. And with approximately one third of the clinical trial timeline spent in patient recruitment, delays in launching clinical trials will increase costs and drain resources. As our industry moves to become fully and demonstrably patient centric, there is much focus on the materials and media which are often the key liaison with the patient populous.

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Why the success of your HTA will rely on real world evidence

pharmaphorum

The first in a trilogy of webinars focussed on the topic; Unlocking the value; the economic equation and part of the IMS Health Practical Insights series. While it remains the gold standard, the feasibility of large scale randomised clinical trials within a pipeline that is ever more focused on niche and personalised medicines is decreasing – particularly in the fields of rare diseases and oncology.

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Pharma Selling: What Doctors expect from Medical Sales Reps?

MaBiCo

Pharma Selling: What Doctors expect from Medical Sales Reps? Sales representatives in the healthcare industry are expected to manage their “territories” as if they were running their own business. That’s the very reason top performing medical sales Reps have entrepreneurial mindset. To be successful in your sales territory its important to know which customers drive you more business, what their “buying” style is; so that you can match your selling style to it, have a investment budget, and also

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.

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Predicting success: How advanced analytics should underpin your brand strategy

pharmaphorum

The current market research climate in the pharmaceutical industry is one of “doing more with less”. At the same time the number of healthcare professionals engaging with market research is on the decline. So how do marketing teams cope with these two challenges and continue to produce good business intelligence for big brand decisions? Cello Health Insight’s quantitative team, IQ, argues that this is an ideal environment in which to start making greater use of advanced analytics techniques to m

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Why Top Sales Performers Would Want to Work for You

The Brooks Group

I can’t think of a single sales leader who has told me, “Yeah…when we have open sales positions, we’re definitely looking for average sales performers.” That’s ridiculous. Everyone is obviously after top sales talent. In spite of that, so many companies fail to invest the energy in creating an environment that attracts and retains top sales performers.

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8 Insanely Effective Posts to Find and Keep Top Sales Talent

The Brooks Group

The value of top sales talent can’t be understated, so it pays to make sure strong performers are satisfied with their positions, engaged, and motivated to grow with you for the long-run. The key to sourcing top performing salespeople—and keeping them—is figuring out exactly what type of person can succeed in your sales environment and hire people that fit the profile.

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Social Selling Is Your Company’s Greatest Potential Inbound Lead Generator

The Brooks Group

This guest post comes from Kurt Shaver. Kurt speaks about and trains corporate sales teams on advanced Social Selling skills. He has appeared at conferences like Sales 2.0, AA-ISP Social Selling, and LinkedIn's Sales Connect. Learn more at The Sales Foundry. Connect with Kurt on LinkedIn or follow him on Twitter. . Most B2B marketing professionals are aware that inbound marketing is a proven strategy for lead generation.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten