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Business Skills
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AI 101(2 hours)If you’re outside of a technology role, this program is great for understanding what artificial intelligence is, its many different forms, trends, and evolutions, as well as how different functions are using AI to optimize their work.28 October or 3 December both days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 4:30PM to 6:30PM GMT -
AI 201(2 hours)Advance your foundational understanding of AI and its many different forms and uses in organizations by learning more about generative AI and the latest evolutions in AI for business.13 October or 9 December both days at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Business Acumen in Life Sciences(3 hours)Life Sciences is rapidly evolving in its operating model, strategies, and focus on innovations. This program is useful for individuals at director-level and above to understand how the industry is evolving, whatever your sector or function of specialization. The program also covers topline business financials as another lever that influences your depth and breadth of business acumen and how you influence the short- and long-range direction of your organization.20 October from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 4:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Business Process & Continuous Improvement(2.5 hours)This program is mainly geared toward mid- and senior leaders who lead a function or department and have the opportunity to continuously improve efficiencies and operational excellence. This program is also great for anyone responsible for cross-functional business processes or who is interested in learning more about process engineering and continuous improvement.8 December from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT -
Cross-functional Collaboration(2.5 hours)Learn the fundamentals and best practices for optimizing cross-functional work, relationships, and business outcomes.27 October from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 4:30PM to 7PM GMT -
Decision-Making(2 hours)In this program, you’ll learn advanced techniques and practices to help you make better business decisions faster.14 October from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 4:30PM to 6:30PM GMT -
Effective Meetings(2 hours)We spend a lot of time in meetings and so it’s to everyone’s benefit to understand how to optimize meeting effectiveness and efficiencies. In this program, we’ll share best practices, and different tips and techniques to not only make your meetings more efficient but also elevate your meetings to increase the return on investment in time spent - ensuring optimized outcomes from meetings.9 December from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Finance for Non-Finance Managers(2.5 hours)This program is mostly geared toward leaders who are not in Finance. This program will help you advance your financial knowledge and awareness, as sound fiscal knowledge and management are critical for all leaders. You should only attend this program if you are currently at associate director level or above.7 December from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT -
Interviewing Skills(2.5 hours)This program is great for anyone involved in interviewing, as it will help to ensure your interviews are structured to garner the information you need to recommend the best hiring decision for candidates and your organization.3 November from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT -
Leading Change(2.5 hours)Change in any organization is to be expected. If you are leading an initiative or project that requires change management, such as communicating and educating others on the change, this program will help you understand how to incorporate change management best practices into your work.7 October or 18 November both days at 10:00AM to 12:30PM Eastern / 7:00AM to 9:30PM Pacific / 2:00PM to 4:30PM GMT -
Leading Projects(3 hours)This program is great for anyone who is not certified in Project Management. This program will help you better plan for and lead projects for optimal project engagement and execution.12 November from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:30PM GMT -
Risk Management(2.5 hours)Risk management is among the critical capabilities growing and mature organizations develop and hone over time to ensure the organization’s readiness to effectively and efficiently manage different scenarios that can arise (foreseen and unforeseen) in business operations. Whether you lead a large function, a small department or team, a key project, or just generally want to learn about best practice risk mitigation and management, you’ll be exposed to different practices and models to help you play your role in managing your organization’s risks.5 November from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT
Communication Skills
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Conflict Resolution(2 hours)Learn best practice tips and techniques to proactively manage potential conflict in the work environment; helping you and your colleagues maintain a positive state of collaboration.29 October from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 4:30PM to 6:30PM GMT -
Effective Communications(2 hours)Learn foundational elements of effective communication, how to tailor communications to meet audience needs, and how to structure communications for better results.7 October from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Giving & Receiving Feedback(2 hours)This program is great for all colleagues who want to improve their abilities to give good feedback as well as receive feedback in a constructive and productive manner. Feedback is constant; it’s how we give it, receive it, and process it, that makes all the difference.10 December from at 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Presenting Technical Information(2 x 1.5 hours)This program will help you learn how to better structure and present technical information – whatever your technical area of expertise. NOTE: After you sign-up for the first date, you will receive two Outlook invitations for both parts of this program, since it is a two-part program.1 December and 8 December (two parts) from 12:30PM to 2PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7PM GMT
Influencing Skills
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Emotional Intelligence(2 hours)Emotional intelligence is consistently rated as highly important to one’s professional success, if not more important than IQ. In this program, learn the fundamentals of Emotional Intelligence and how you can increase this to enhance your work results and relationships.2 December from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Executive Presence(2 hours)This program is great if you want to enhance your capabilities and confidence when interacting, communicating with or presenting to senior management.27 October or 8 December both days at 10:30AM to 12:30PM Eastern / 7:30AM to 9:30AM Pacific / 2:30PM to 4:30PM GMT -
Influencing & Stakeholder Management(2.5 hours)We all have stakeholders and we all influence all of the time. This program will help you enhance your influencing and stakeholder management skills.15 October from 10:00AM to 12:30PM Eastern / 7AM to 9:30PM Pacific / 2PM to 4:30PM GMT
Leading Others
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Being a Leader(2.5 hours)Advance your foundational understanding and capabilities for leading others, whether you’re a formal people leader or a project team leader. Through this program, you will learn several foundational practices of great leaders that will help you accelerate and advance your capabilities when leading others. NOTE: if you’ve previously attended our Managing Others program, Being a Leader will advance your knowledge and capabilities, so this is a great follow-on from Managing Others, though prior attendance in Managing Others is not required.1 December from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT -
Communicating as a Leader(2 hours)Learn best practices, tips, and techniques for communicating as a leader, which will up-level your communication skills and overall effectiveness as a leader.2 December from 10:30AM to 12:30PM Eastern / 7:30AM to 9:30AM Pacific / 2:30PM to 4:30PM GMT -
Creating Strategic Vision & Aligning Your Team(2.5 hours)This is an advanced program. This program is great for any leader who can benefit from learning how to develop a well-structured, elevating and compelling vision, including learning how to communicate shared vision, meaning and purpose to align your teams and stakeholders.3 December from 10:00AM to 12:30PM Eastern / 7:00AM to 9:30AM Pacific / 2:00PM to 4:30PM GMT -
Establishing & Maintaining Trust as a Leader(2 hours)Trust is the foundation for all that we do when communicating, interacting, and working with others. A leader’s ability to quickly build and sustain trust over time is critical to the effectiveness of the leader and their team. Learn foundational ways to build and sustain trust as a leader.12 November from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Managing Others(2 x 2 hours)If you’re new to managing other people, this is a great foundational leadership program where you’ll learn a number of practices for effective management of other colleagues. This program is also great for experienced people managers who were never trained in foundational leadership practices or would simply like a refresh on these practices. NOTE: After you sign-up for the first date, you will receive two Outlook invitations for both parts of this program, since it is a two-part program.10 and 17 November (two parts) from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Setting Up Your Team for Success(2 hours)Explore key leadership topics such as setting clear roles and responsibilities, setting clear goals and expectations, and best practices for communicating as a leader. NOTE: There are many concepts in this program that are contained in other Hands On programs. This is an opportunity to refresh learning in key team leader aspects and augment your learning in additional team leader effectiveness realms.4 November from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT
Personal and Professional Development
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Advanced Career Development(2 hours)As your career progresses, planning for your future career progression involves more advanced thinking and steps to realize your more senior career aspirations. Learn advanced career planning and activation techniques.10 November from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Increasing Creativity(2 hours)Pause. Reflect. Recharge. In today’s very hectic environment, where workload is often unrelenting, we rarely have a moment to take a pause and reflect on the what and the why behind our busyness. This program offers an opportunity for you to pause and reflect on your what, why and how — using some simple hands-on and art-based methods to help you better center your approach.23 October from 11AM to 12:30PM Eastern / 8AM to 9:30AM Pacific / 3PM to 4:30PM GMT -
Increasing Resiliency(2 hours)Resiliency continues to be rated among the most important skills we can have in both professional and personal realms. This program can help you strengthen your resiliency and enjoy the benefits of increased resiliency in both work and beyond. As science has shown, resiliency is not something we’re born with; it is a learnable and incredibly valuable skill.4 December from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Personal Branding(2 hours)This program will help you understand how to build and strengthen your professional brand – how you want others to regard you. Personal branding, when done well, is key to influencing others and strengthening your career opportunities.8 October from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 4:30PM to 6:30PM GMT -
Preparing for Senior-level Roles(2 hours)In this program, you’ll learn about tips / techniques to prepare in advance for more senior-level roles. Demonstrating your advancing capabilities is critical to being recognized for movement into more senior-level roles.7 December from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT
Technical Skills
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AI & Other Trends in Med Tech(2.5 hours)Pretty much all industries are wrestling with artificial intelligence (AI). Learn the latest in AI and other trends in Med Tech.2 November from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT -
Clinical Operations(3 hours)Learn the fundamentals of Clinical Operations and their role and responsibilities in managing clinical trials and clinical studies. This is useful if you are in Clinical Operations and want more guidance on the full cycle of this group and its work. This is also useful if you work with Clinical Operations and/or just want to learn more about this group’s role in steering clinical trials and clinical studies to successful conclusion.2 December from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:30PM GMT -
Drug Discovery & Development 101(2.5 hours)This program will help you understand the broader context of Life Sciences’ drug discovery and development, which is important context for all colleagues who work in Life Sciences, as it will help you understand some of the primary functions of Biopharma.28 October or 9 December both days at 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT -
Drug Discovery & Development 201(2 x 2 hours)Learn advanced concepts and principles in drug discovery and development, including key stakeholders across the Biopharma ecosystem, latest trends, and evolutions in Biopharma, and more. NOTE: After you sign-up for the first date, you will receive two Outlook invitations for both parts of this program, since it is a two-part program.5 and 12 November (two parts) from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
GxP(2.5 hours)The Life Sciences and adjacent industries are governed by good, consistent practices. Learn what these are – the full range, organizational requirements and also some of the regulatory reporting requirements.6 November from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT -
Healthcare Compliance(2 hours)Learn the fundamentals of healthcare compliance pertinent to Biopharma and what organizations must do to remain compliant.4 November from 12:30PM to 2:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific / 5:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Intro to CMC(3 hours)Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) plays a pivotal role across the Life Sciences’ product development lifecycle. If you’re not in a CMC role and want to learn more about what this function does, including where, when and how it is involved in product development progression, this is a great program for you. Whatever your function, we can all benefit from understanding how CMC works, and how we can best interact with CMC and support their role in our organization’s overall success.13 November from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:30PM GMT -
Market Access 101(3 hours)This program benefits all in Biopharma organizations, as it will give critical foundational information, such as what and who is involved in Market Access, when market access should be contemplated in accordance with product development cycle times. Market access is often addressed too late, which can adversely affect success of Biopharma commercialization.13 October from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 4:30PM to 7:30PM GMT -
Market Access 201(3 hours)Advance your understanding of the fundamentals of Market Access by advancing your understanding of key constituents, e.g., patients, patients advocates, private and public payers, and more. Understanding what market constituents need will help your organization position itself for optimal market and patient access.17 November from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:30PM GMT -
Market Access Strategy(3 hours)If you are in a Market Access or adjacent role, such as Sales, Marketing, Medical Affairs, etc., learning how best practice organizations build and deploy market and patient access strategies will help your organization prepare in advance to optimize patient, payer and healthcare provider satisfaction while helping to realize sales and marketing goals as well.8 December from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:30PM GMT -
Preparing for NDA / BLA(2.5 hours)Learn the primary steps and other considerations when preparing your organization for these critical milestones of New Drug Applications (NDA) and Biologics Licensing Applications (BLA).1 December from 12:30PM to 3PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8PM GMT -
Regulatory Affairs 101(3 hours)If you’re not in Regulatory Affairs, or brand new to the function, and want to learn more about the fundamentals of how Regulatory Affairs operates in Biopharma, including FDA requirements and various regulatory milestones during product development and product lifecycle management, this program is a great foundation.4 November from 12:30PM to 3:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM to 12:30PM Pacific / 5:30PM to 8:30PM GMT