Finding, Recruiting and On-Boarding Top Talent in the Life Sciences

is being presented by Tim Ruef, Vice President, of Michael E. Marion & Associates, Inc and airs on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011. For more details, or to register please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

One of the biggest challenges facing senior management in life sciences companies is how to identify and recruit top talent, and how best to integrate these new hires successfully into the organization. Human resources professionals have an opportunity to take charge of this process, guiding their hiring managers and earning the respect of corporate leaders.

This audio conference presentation provides attendees with bottom-line, take-home tips on where to find the right kind of talent for your organization, structuring a competitive offer, and the best ways to ensure new recruits are integrated quickly and seamlessly into the company. The speaker provides invaluable information to help HR professionals increase their strategic impact, attract passive candidates, manage top prospects, and strengthen their professional reputation through leadership efforts in this vital area.

Succession Planning: How to Engage, Retain and Develop Your Best Talent

is being presented by Beth Thomas, Executive VP, Managing Director Consulting Services, with Sequent and airs on Wednesday, April 27th, 2011. For more details, or to register please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

A 2010 Stanford University study found that only about half of the 140 companies surveyed had a candidate-in-waiting to take over as CEO if the need should arise. Other studies have reported similarly sobering statistics. Only 26% of companies have identified successors for the majority of their executive positions (Bersin Factbook, 2009), and 40% of corporate board members are unsatisfied with current succession plans (Egon Zehnder, 2009).

Succession planning is the process of recruiting and grooming employees to fill the key roles within an organization, and companies that engage in strategic succession planning are ultimately more successful. Unfortunately, for many companies succession planning is an overlooked strategy, as the future is set aside in favor of dealing with more urgent priorities. However, companies that fail to plan for succession are putting their very survival at risk. After all, what could be more important than ensuring your leadership positions are filled with the right people? This audio conference provides attendees with the why and how of proper succession planning.

Building & Managing Cross-Cultural Teams

Members of clinical and research teams often come from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and countries. Each culture has unique communication and interaction customs. How can you most effectively encourage people from many diverse backgrounds to join your team, and most importantly, invite them to contribute to your organization's innovation and efficacy?

This audio conference reveals how best to recruit team members from all communities and encourage increased participation from each of them, regardless of their background. The speaker shares her insights on how to increase cultural competency, improve cross-cultural communication techniques and develop team members into leaders -- ensuring that succession planning is proactive, not reactive.

Building & Managing Cross-Cultural Teams is being presented by Wendy Willow Wark, Founder, of Inclusion Strategies and airs on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. For more details or to register, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Recruiting Research Participants Using Web-Based Software

Could the Internet be the key to driving participation in your clinical research? More and more institutions and organizations are successfully using web-based software to recruit larger numbers of research participants for clinical trials and studies. Internet technology can increase recruitment numbers and enrollment, and increase the revenue to the institution when studies are filling with subjects. Anyone with Internet access can get the information they need, register, provide consent, answer a series of questions, and join a pool of potential research participants online.

In this audio conference, our speakers examine how web-based software can make patient recruitment faster and more efficient, and provide real-life examples of the positive results achieved at two leading health care institutions.

Recruiting Research Participants Using Web-Based Software was presented by Geoff Ott, mdlogix & Charles Rathmann, Washington University and aired on 2008-12-11. For more details or to download this conference, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Adapting Patient Recruitment to Global Cultures

Patient recruitment is often mistakenly equated with advertising, when in actuality it is a considered collection of practices in response to a problem or a set of risks. The discipline is still new to many world regions outside of North America, presenting challenges both in acceptance and in practice among study professionals globally.

This audio conference focuses on overcoming those challenges in order to successfully conduct patient recruitment globally using the most appropriate, effective, and ethically acceptable tactics. In addition, it will also illustrate methods for culturally adapting patient recruitment practices - particularly creating patient communications (including advertising) - to resonate with target populations in each country.

Adapting Patient Recruitment to Global Cultures was presented by Rob Laurens & Matt Stumm, Leader, Creative Services & Senior Art Director, with BBK Healthcare and aired on 2008-01-23. For more details, or to download this conference, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Clinical Research in Central & Eastern Europe: Developments and Challenges

In recent years the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have seen many political and economic changes which have affected the clinical research market. Changes in EU member status, economic standards, labor policy and political changes all effect the environment for clinical trials in this region. In some countries these changes are leading to a less competitive arena for clinical trials, as evidenced by more regulatory hurdles, saturation of sites, and highly unstable labor markets for clinical research personnel as the demand for experienced staff outweighs the supply.

At the same time, there are new countries on the horizon which are just getting started in clinical trials and could offer many opportunities but also come with their challenges. Central and Eastern Europe can still provide excellent recruitment with costs savings but the planning of studies needs to be done with more sophistication than was previously required to get good results.

This presentation focuses on the current and future challenges related to the clinical studies in the region, provide background on the forces that have created the current picture and suggest strategies for success in the future based on actual case studies and experience.

Clinical Research in Central & Eastern Europe: Developments and Challenges was presented by Dr. Malgorzata Szerszeniewska, President, with AbCRO and aired on 2008-07-10. For more details, or to download this conference please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Conducting Drug Trials in Asia Pacific

With constant pressure to reduce the cost of drug development and to find eligible subjects for clinical trials, developing areas of the world are of increasing interest to trial sponsors. But how does the quality of data compare with traditional sites? And what about the rate of recruitment? Do these alternative sites really offer a substantial benefit in terms of time and cost savings?

This presentation, the second in a series featuring speakers from Covance addressing alternative site selection, focuses on the opportunities and the reality of performing clinical trials in the Asia Pacific market.

Conducting Drug Trials in Asia Pacific was presented by Dr. Helen Ormandy, Director, Centres of Excellence, with Covance Asia Pacific and aired on 2006-05-04. For more details or to download this conference, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

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Partnering with the New e-Patient for Recruitment Success

The Internet has changed the way people approach their own health care, creating a new breed of engaged, empowered consumer known as the ‘e-patient’. They are taking charge of finding information about their diagnoses and treatment options, and they aren’t shy about interacting online with other patients to exchange experiences and learn more. The most active searchers, according to a groundbreaking white paper by Dr. Tom Ferguson and the e-Patients Scholars Working Group, are acute (newly diagnosed) and chronic patients – arguably, the optimal candidates for clinical trial participation.

This conference profiles the new e-patient, offers strategies for getting his/her attention, and assesses the benefits and challenges of partnering with this population to optimize clinical trial participation.

Partnering with the New e-Patient for Recruitment Success is being presented by Rob Laurens & Matt Stumm, with BBK Worldwide and airs on Thursday, April 23, 2009. For more details, or to signup for this event, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Recruiting Research Participants Using Web-Based Software

Could the Internet be the key to driving participation in your clinical research? More and more institutions and organizations are successfully using web-based software to recruit larger numbers of research participants for clinical trials and studies. Internet technology can increase recruitment numbers and enrollment, and increase the revenue to the institution when studies are filling with subjects. Anyone with Internet access can get the information they need, register, provide consent, answer a series of questions, and join a pool of potential research participants online.

In this audio conference, our speakers examine how web-based software can make patient recruitment faster and more efficient, and provide real-life examples of the positive results achieved at two leading health care institutions.

Recruiting Research Participants Using Web-Based Software is presented by Marjorie Tharp, mdlogix and Charles Rathmann, Washington University. This audio conference airs on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008, for more details, please visit our site www.fxconferences.com