Team Integration
Many times there is limited or no effort taken to create a joint view of the goals that should be achieved during a clinical trial. As a result, the clinical team is not productive and becomes disengaged. According to several reports, disengaged employees are 33 percent less productive on average, costing companies a lot of money, risk and time.
This loss of productivity is unacceptable at Advanced Clinical. When bringing you and your new employees together, we want to give you one team: your dream team.
An integrated team will achieve improvements in performance by developing the right team culture and adopting the behaviors needed to support and reinforce it. A strong team culture leads to reduction of waste, duplication, and unnecessary processes and procedures. Most importantly, the right team culture drives success.
To keep clinicians and consultants in the loop with your project, Advanced Clinical has built a "Team Integration Method.” For successful team integration, we incorporate the following key aspects into our approach:
- Shared view of project goals, objectives, culture and communications styles
- Clearly defined roles, responsibilities and handoffs
- Shared principles of trust and respect
- Effective issues management and decision making process
- Open and transparent communication and dialogue, including open access to information through Microsoft SharePoint software
Additionally, we look at integration from two perspectives: the “hard side” and “soft side,” when delivering team chemistry to our clients:
The “hard side” of integration:
By identifying and understanding our clients’ specific resource needs and ramping requirements, we are able to construct a highly specialized Advanced Clinical team to fit each project.
The “soft side” of integration:
We have a thorough team integration approach that begins at the planning stage and is followed up throughout the project with workshops, reviews and ongoing communication touchpoints.
Our method succeeds in creating a fully harmonized team, whether working on-site or off-site, to ensure maximum employee engagement, productivity and overall performance. When it comes to projects, Advanced Clinical believes our consultants should work closely with their colleagues, project managers and our client’s colleagues throughout the process.
Our overall team integration is a clearly defined communication plan, with centralization and coordination across all stakeholders.