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Are you in a world of talk or a world of hurt or frustration? Either you’re in the business of better communication or you’re not in business at all, y’all. For example, what do you feel

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

is the missing key to unlock a closed or locked door of communication? And, how could you improve your communication skills today that will pay dividends in your career tomorrow? Actual

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ly, those were the very questions I recently asked to workshop audience members made up of business executives and leaders.

THE GREEN LIGHT OF GOOD TALK AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE CHANGIN

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

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Got time to talk? You are plenty wise to get to know the communicator type of the people with whom you’re talking. That way, you don’t have to accommodate their style b

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ut you can when it will create win-win partnerships. How can you give the green light to good talk?

1. Focus like a hawk. Be more focused on what others are saying, than what you are go

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ng to jump in and say next.

2. Seek to be a better communicator and ye shall find. Set a goal to improve your communication skills a little each day, and within a year you will make smo

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

oth communication moves that net friendships.

3. Match the talk tempo. Communicating with a talk partner is like jogging or dancing together; taking turns talking or making points and m

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

atching the pitch and pace of talking gives the green light to good talk. Match the talk tempo.

4. Don’t stare off into outer space. Try to keep your eyeballs touching, and smile or nod

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

your head in agreement when you do.

5. Enjoy feeling stupid. Leaders who aren’t “know it alls” listen really well because they are always in a learning mode.

6. Save the best for firs

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

t. Instead of “saving the best for last,” do as much of what’s important to your work passions first.

7. Be on “your time.” Take time to think issues through, including four minutes of

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

elf-study or personal meditation each day.

8. Listen with “three ears.” Deep listening changes the listener and the speaker. You can’t listen with a half of an ear AND multitask AND get

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

the drift of the complete message.

9. Change what isn’t working. Pick a flaw or an Achilles heel and work on daily improvement. For example, if you dislike change park in a new parking

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

spot every day.

10. Connect instead of dissect. “It’s your fault!” is a way of shunning that dissects drivers on the two-way communication highway and creates a disconnect. If there’s

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

no one to blame, what would you be doing differently today to make your dreams come true?

11. Don’t be content with feeling contented. Like the Rabbit in the parable of the Tortoise and

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

the Hare, sit smugly on your laurels and you will be passed by in a hurry.

12. Tell the truth. You must have “guts galore” and express true feelings and thoughts that might hurt someon

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

.

13. Know the communicator type of those you work for. You can’t always surround yourself with positive people, so know the quirks of your opposite communicator type so you don’t take

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

things too personally.

That’s why good talk isn’t cheap, it’s priceless!

GIVE THE GREEN LIGHT TO GOOD TALK

When at first you don’t succeed, try, try doing something DIFFERENT for a ch

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ange. Doing more of what isn’t working, still won’t work to resolve the communication problem at the crossroads. Enough already of you yakking about how taking time to listen will help y

.

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

ou communicate better, and then drifting off into dreamland whenever times get tough or a bore gets off on being on a soapbox.

IS YOUR COMMUNICATION A COMFORT ZONE OR A COFFIN?

Has you

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

r “comfort zone” really become a coffin with money stuffed inside of it waiting for you to drop by? Ask questions and more questions. Feel proud to be a dumbbell who’s a “know-it-little.

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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