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Deciding to leave your job is a big decision, and many people find themselves agonising over the choice for a long time.   Here are 9 reasons you should think seriously about changing your healthcare job this year-including one reason you really won’t expect. 1. You’re not being developed.  You are stagnating in your role, and despite your requests to be developed, your manager isn’t offering you further training. You become bored, and opportunities are passing by as you sit on a lower rung of the career ladder.  With the rise of A.I. in healthcare, you need take steps to ensure that your skills can’t be outsourced to technology in the future. The...

Workplace stress is an epidemic, with burnout, anxiety, illness, and depression from workplace stress leading to high rates of absenteeism and employee turnover.  In the healthcare sector where the stakes are so high, employees often work longer than usual hours and operate under a relatively high level of pressure.  If a workplace then compounds these stressors with poor management, such as unclear or excessive expectations or a lack of support for their employees, the problems can become severe and impact on employees’ mental and physical health.  Here are some strategies to identify and reduce workplace stress in healthcare environments.  Identifying Workplace Stress in Employees Employees will rarely come to a...

In a US study, 37% of new healthcare hires leave within the first 12 months, and often their departure has nothing to do with whether they had the skills to do the job, but because their attitude, working style or behaviour did not fit with the team.  Hiring well is an art—one that requires a deep knowledge of the dynamic of the existing team and an impressive knack for spotting problematic or ill-matched behaviours.  Luckily, there’s an array of powerful strategies and tools for helping you to hire the right personalities for your healthcare team.  1. Assess what the team needs. You’re not hiring someone in isolation: you are hiring them to...

 It’s a dangerous assumption to assume all your high performers aspire to become managers. It’s an even more dangerous course of action when you accept that some might not want to be managers…and therefore you ignore their career development in favour of those who want to be on the management track.  In life sciences, there are a wealth of experts who don’t want to become managers - whether a medical advisor extremely content with being on the front line of education, an introverted regulatory affairs associate who deeply dislikes being in charge, or a sales and applciation specialist who wants to continue hitting their targets and has no interesting in helping others do...

The strength of your decision-making skills has a direct bearing on your success, whether you’re managing a team of clinical application specialists or considering your next pharmaceutical sales career move. Decision-making can be fraught with peril, and people react to decision-making pressure in wildly different ways - some fear the worst so remain paralysed by indecision, while others are breezily overconfident and underestimate negative consequences.  Luckily, you can dramatically improve your decision-making skills by following some solid strategies.  1. Map out the possibilities. Whether you’re in pharmaceutical sales and considering new opportunities or deciding whether to fire that under-performing application specialist, mapping things out helps to highlight the best course of action. Get a piece of paper and a pen and list...