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A business in transition
Rebecca Chan, owner and creative director of Rebecca Chan Events, talks about transitioning her business from weddings to corporate marketing.
Podcast: The Change Flywheel
Workomics appears on The Inner Game of Change podcast. Susan Bartlett and Terri Block discuss the change flywheel with host Ali Juma.
Skills for Scaling Start-Ups
Scaling start-ups need their employees to build skills in stakeholdering and organizational alignment, as the team grows.
Hybrid co-creation in pharma and biotech
Bringing internal participants together for a hybrid co-creation creates shared intentions and speed to market.
Informed Consent in Healthcare: Adding to FDA Guidance
We share best practices in patient communication that may help comply with FDA guidance on informed consent, as well as practical tips.
Negotiating a New Bargain with Work
The old bargain: give up a large measure of your autonomy and flexibility. In return, we’ll give you stability, structure, and resources.
Undoing Decisions and Fostering a Pilot Mindset
Organizations struggle with undoing decisions. Fostering a pilot mindset can help organizations course-correct in more nuanced ways.
Investing for long-term sustainability
Joelle Faulkner, CEO and Founder of Area One Farms, talks about building up her own investment firm, focusing on Canadian agriculture.
HCP Communication Best Practices
HCP communications from the pharma industry need to be more focused, trustworthy, and multipurpose, to deliver value in the clinical setting.
Fostering connection, community, and care
Jill Curran, owner of two tourism-based businesses, talks about building layers of care and community into clients’ travel experiences.
Scaling a business
Sara Fortier, founder and CEO of Outwitly, talks about starting out as a solo consultant, and how pregnancy led to the scaling of her business.
Patient-centred communiations in pharma and biotech
The Universal Patient Language (UPL) is an example of how a pharma company can create effective patient communications.
Changemaking and digital transformation
Briana Sim, CEO and Founder of SimpliCity, talks about using digital transformation as an avenue for broader changemaking in government
The intersection of business and empathy
Ilana Ben-Ari, CEO and Founder of 21 Toys, talks about her award-winning Empathy Toy, and how she built her business.
Innovating an established business
Jessica Knox, CEO and Owner of Metrix, talks about purchasing an established firm and innovating its business model.
Remote Work Tensions
There are three design tensions in remote work: communication, camaraderie, and coordination. Plus, a blueprint for structuring in-person time.
Treatment Decision-Making: A Framework
Commercial pharmaceutical teams should examine an array of factors that shape treatment decision-making to influence prescribing behaviour.
Customer Experience and Organizational Logic
Customer experience is about helping everyone recognize when organizational logic is negatively affecting customers, and then changing it.
How Workomics Disconnects From Work
The Workomics Disconnecting From Work policy sets out three principles: communicate, anticipate, and reciprocate.
Remote Work and the Social Brawn Hypothesis
The Social Brawn Hypothesis suggests that social support from colleagues helps us sustain higher levels of performance with less fatigue.
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