Program Agenda

This session explores the latest research findings related to decision making. Research findings identify the major difference between effective and ineffective decision making as the ability to collect, process and act on information in an unbiased fashion. This session challenges participants—via brainstorming under pressure, unearthing multiple agendas and optimizing use of cross-functional skills—to be better decision-makers. Gain an understanding of how decisions get made, who is or should be involved in making decisions, and how and what levers are pulled to get decisions made, and on developing strategies to effectively communicate decisions to others—physicians, managers, nurses and others in your organization.

Sometimes "doing the right thing" while also delivering outstanding and lasting results can be difficult for leaders to achieve, but in today’s economic and political environment values-based leaders are needed more than ever. Through highly interactive dialogue, this session will review the four principles Kraemer has identified that guide leaders to make choices that are aligned with their values and offer a framework to adopt the four principles of values-based leadership to make organizations beacons of enduring value in the world.

This session will seek to identify, again in an highly interactive manner, appropriate responses to surmount the managerial and strategic challenges facing you as a regulatory professional and the profession as a whole to enable the true skill-set of a regulatory professional to be realized and leadership opportunities seized.

New products are a critical growth lever; few things can drive as much top- and bottom-line growth as a strong new product introduction. However, new products are also expensive, time-consuming and often unsuccessful. Developing a new product strategy, which includes a clear understanding of the regulatory challenges raised by the product, is one of the most important ways you can improve your odds of success. This session will review the seven keys to a strong new product strategy, and evaluate the strategic options for launching new products into established and emerging categories. After discussing the concepts, participants will break into teams to apply the concepts to a case.

This session examines disputes and organizational (or interpersonal) conflicts and how they can negatively impact an organization. It also reviews how active engagement can be used to resolve these disputes. Further, mediation is discussed. Exercises are used to have participants experience techniques that can lead the disputing parties to successful resolution of the issues causing the conflict.