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You Had Me At Hello
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You Had Me At Hello

October 29, 2010

Setting the tone of your meeting is an important factor in creating a successful outcome. Here’s three points to remember about setting the tone.

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What’s Your Meeting’s I/D Ratio?
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What’s Your Meeting’s I/D Ratio?

September 27, 2010

If you want your meeting to make a significant impact on your audience think dialogue and not monologue. Get the interactive to didactic ratio up and your audience will remember more of your key messages.

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Your Next Meeting Needs Fruit Salad!
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Your Next Meeting Needs Fruit Salad!

August 16, 2010

This video shows you how Communications Design can help get your message to your audience with greater impact (and how to make a great fruit salad!).

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The Facilitation of Pharma Nation
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The Facilitation of Pharma Nation

June 16, 2010

Pharmaceutical marketing meetings are unique events. They’re designed to develop advocates, yet sometimes fall short of even developing rapport. The best meetings establish rapport with the participants from the start. After years of leading and facilitating various types of medical and pharmaceutical meetings I’ve found a number of techniques that help build that rapport quickly [...]

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Three Fears for Pharma!
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Three Fears for Pharma!

June 3, 2010

These are difficult times, difficult markets, difficult circumstances. Everyone feels it. Many acknowledge it. Some overcome it. The financial guys call it a shakeout: smaller fish are gobbled up by larger, insolvent companies go bankrupt, and shops evaporate for lack of customers. In times like these one emotion seems to predominate: fear. You can feel [...]

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The Rise of Virtual Medical Meetings
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The Rise of Virtual Medical Meetings

May 3, 2010

Ten years ago the only way to reach a large number of physicians was to have a series of meetings across the globe. Today we can do it from the comfort of our own office or local production studio.

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Medical Meetings End Love Affair With Data Dumping
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Medical Meetings End Love Affair With Data Dumping

March 26, 2010

Adding a few communications design questions to your planning mix could help you achieve greater ROI from your next medical meeting.

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Serra Fields Twelve for Innovation at Launch Meeting
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Serra Fields Twelve for Innovation at Launch Meeting

February 15, 2010

It started, as it usually does, with a phone call. A client asked if I could come up with some creative ideas for a drug launch meeting. They wanted to equip their audience with the latest data; they wanted them prepped to handle the questions that they might get out in the field; and they [...]

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Job One: Pharma and Physician Trust Building
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Job One: Pharma and Physician Trust Building

February 5, 2010

A good deal as has been written, discussed, and postulated over the last five years about the trust deficit that exists in the pharmaceutical space (see Jane Parker’s article). Although many of the ideas suggested have been implemented, we still have a long way to go. Much of that has to do with the intrinsic [...]

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Inspiration: the Ultimate Game-Changer
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Inspiration: the Ultimate Game-Changer

February 3, 2010

Good training speaks to the root causes of our behavior and modifies it by offering a different motivation or inspiration.

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