Conducting Team Meetings

The way you conduct team meetings will naturally reflect both your own style and your company s broader culture. There is no single right way to lead a team. However, there are some common principles for effective leadership, including  

Circulating reminders with meeting agendas can help teammates meet their deadlines. In addition, request team members to notify you in advance if it appears that a deadline might slip. 

Dealing with a poor contributor requires a combination of firmness and tact. If a team member consistently misses deadlines or produces shabby work, talk to him or her privately to try to find out the reason. Ask for suggestions as to how you or others might help. At the same time, make it clear that the team expects a certain level of performance and be prepared to replace a team member who cannot or will not achieve it. 

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The objective of this chapter has been to provide the pharmaceutical physician with some appreciation of the complexity of pharmaceutical development. Understanding the vocabulary will help participation in team meetings, where pharmaceutical and clinical development must be coordinated. A chapter on this scale will never equip a pharmaceutical physician to conduct pharmaceutical development. At the very least, it should now be clear that a drug is not a drug is not a drug. 

On one project, a team was asked to attend a 1-day meeting. In the morning, the team conducted a P ID review in the afternoon the same team, meeting in the same room, carried out a HAZOP on the same P IDs (with some marks from the morning s work). Yet the two meetings— the review and the HAZOP—were totally different in style and substance. 

Use a safety program management document to conduct safety team meetings and monitor the required tasks for program success. 

Step 4 Prepare for and conduct the first team meeting. 

As in HAZOP, LOPA is also performed by a multi-disciplinary team, conducting several meeting sessions. The team at least should consist of ... 

Schedule and conduct PSSR team meetings and field inspections as required by the complexity of the change... 

This meeting should serve as the kickoff meeting for the design team. You may want to establish ground rules for later meetings, and even conduct an exercise that enables team members to develop a preliminary purpose statement in preparation for your first design team meeting. 

Treatment plans are effective only if they help clients and families improve. To be able to determine progress, you need to review treatment plans periodically. Usually treatment teams will conduct weekly interdisciplinary staff reviews of a client s progress, and the staff s recommendations for improving care will be documented in the chart. These interdisciplinary staff meetings are quite useful,... 

The committee recognizes and appreciates the extensive support of the Army ACWA team and the committee interactions with stakeholders and the Dialogue group, particularly the four members of the Dialogue known as the Citizens Advisory Technical Team (CATT). Members of the CATT attended all open meetings of the committee and shared information and their views with us. I believe our relationship with the sponsor, PMACWA, and his team and support contractors has been effective and constmctive and that the committee has been given the best available information to conduct this evaluation of the three technologies. 

Tbe length and rigor of these meetings will increase as the team conducts an analysis of underlying root causes using a structured method and reaches conclusions. Recommendations are then developed to address prevalent root causes. Ultimately, the team generates a written report. 

The analytical laboratory is an important but often overlooked member of the project team good communications with the laboratory are essential for the project success. The laboratory that conducts analysis of project samples will usually provide the sample containers, coolers for shipping samples, and the packing materials. The laboratory should have as much advanced notification as possible to prepare the appropriate containers and ship them to the sampling crew. After the sampling containers have been received, a member of a sampling crew should verify that the quantities and preservation chemicals are correct and meet the SAP requirements. 

This discussion understandably cannot address whether the results of the preclinical studies that were conducted would support the proposed clinical trials (e.g., the proposed first-in-human dose). For that reason, or for other reasons, a development project team might choose to request a pre-IND meeting or an earlier meeting. 

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