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    Many managers will often say their personal assistant is invaluable to them yet they often treat them as if they're not.

    Day after day, week after week the P.A. is in the office, slogging away making sure the work gets done. In many instances it is
    According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product
    the P.A. that holds the business / department together.

    Many of them are so conscientious they won't take time out and will stay at their desk until the work is done. Not only are they integral to the running of any business, their income and the wa
    ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

    Examples of combination products may in
    they are treated may not always reflect the importance of their role.

    Jenny's Story

    Jenny has worked for her current employer for the past three years and thoroughly enjoys her role as Personal Assistant to the General Manager. They have a great w
    lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

    orking relationship.

    If she requires the occasional afternoon or morning off to deal with personal matters, all she has to do is ask. Her boss praises her regularly for her contribution and rewards her … sometimes monetarily and other times with a
    here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
    dinner out or movie tickets when they achieve their sales targets.

    Because of this attitude with her employer, she does her utmost best in her work and never thinks twice about working overtime on the odd occasion. In fact she works twice as hard be
    d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

    Combination pro
    ause she’s appreciated and has some flexibility in her working hours.

    This is a totally different situation to Jenny's previous employer. Jenny had been working for another organisation where her boss was 'married to the job'. Although he had a wife
    ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc
    and family, his behaviour didn't reflect this. He worked all hours of the day and night and couldn't understand why everyone else went home at 5.00 p.m.

    Although she did her utmost best to organise him and get the work done on time, he would always
    easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi
    ask for tasks to be done just when she was getting ready to leave for the day.

    On the many occasions when she worked back or took work home so that her boss would have what he wanted for the next morning, he never thanked her. He just assumed that's
    nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
    what she should do. He never considered her needs. She was a single parent and therefore had major responsibilities. She had a life too. Her boss on the other hand was fortunate to have a wife who didn't work and took care of their personal life.

    P
    and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ
    ior to Jenny being in this role, there had been three other people who had worked in her position, and each one had lasted less than 3 months.

    Jenny had enough, she left after 6 months and found her current position. It wasn't the money that was her
    ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
    main issue. It was the flexibility and appreciation. Although her boss was pleasant enough, he just didn't understand that there is more to working with someone than just paying their wages.

    Learn How to Look After Your People

    As soon as you have p
    ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

    Following aspects would a
    eople to manage, the most important skill you need to learn is how to look after them.

    Every client I have coached will often say their biggest challenge is the people that work for them.

    There are many reasons for this including hiring the wrong p
    dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

    Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
    Which combination prod
    ople to begin with and the most common being the manager/boss… they haven’t developed the skills on being a masterful manager.

    What the Boss Wants:

    Someone who can use their initiative, make decisions in their absence and carry out tasks without su
    cts are meaningful and rational?
    Which therapeutic categories to select?
    Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
    Do combin
    pervision.

    A person they can trust and take many of the basic administrative duties from them so the boss can spend his/her time on more important tasks.

    A person who can organise them (and in some cases be a mind-reader).

    An assistant who is thei
    tions increase the patient compliance?
    What would be the developing cost?
    How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
    right-hand person and can keep everything running smoothly.

    What the PA Wants:

    A boss who they can communicate with.

    A boss who understands that when they are given tasks to do, although they may have taken 2 minutes to discuss, could take the P.
    t?

    As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
    . 2 days to complete with all the interruptions they have from others.

    A boss who realises that the P.A. is a person who has to do many tasks as well as answering all the phone calls and often has many interruptions in their day which can cause them
    ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

    Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
    to get very behind with their work.

    A boss who is appreciative of them and realises that the P.A. does have a life outside of work and needs to have time-out just like they do.

    To be recognised on a regular basis that they are important. They also
    y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
    need to be renumerated for their valuable contribution and should have regular performance appraisals and be offered incentives.

    The Final Word

    When employing a personal assistant make sure they are the right fit. If you're looking for someone who
    .

    As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
    can be extremely flexible in their hours and can come in early and stay late, then make sure that person is in the right personal situation to do that. Using our invaluable tool How to Hire the Right People can save you time, money and stress before
    elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

    Companies that provide selfless information through particip
    ou go through the process.

    Employing people is a skill in itself. Keeping them happy so that they will be an important part of your business is another story. See Look After Your People And They Will Look After You

    Have a great week

    Lorraine Pirih


    tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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