Influence and Collaboration Workshop: Improve Alignment and Results for Life Sciences

Redwood Shores, CA — LSA Global, a leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast-growth life sciences, technology, and services companies align culture and talent with strategy, announced strong results for a highly customized Influence and Collaboration Workshop for a fast growing global Life Sciences Company.

The highly customized training program results were:

• 96% Job Relevance
• 98% Satisfaction
• 172% Knowledge Gain
• 92% Net Promoter Score

Influence and Collaboration Workshop for Life Sciences Leaders and Teams

Success in life sciences rarely depends on individual expertise alone. Bringing a therapy, device, diagnostic, or scientific innovation forward requires scientists, clinicians, regulatory experts, commercial leaders, operations teams, and external partners to coordinate decisions across complex organizational boundaries.

That makes influence and collaboration skills business-critical.

An effective Influence and Collaboration Workshop for Life Sciences should help leaders and teams:

• Build alignment.
• Navigate competing priorities.
• Influence stakeholders — even when they lack formal authority.

Why Influence and Collaboration Matter in Life Sciences
Matrixed structures are common across biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare organizations. A project leader may be accountable for an important milestone while depending on people from regulatory, clinical, quality, manufacturing, finance, and commercial functions who report elsewhere.

Technical expertise establishes credibility. It does not automatically create commitment.

Life sciences professionals must be able to:

• Understand different stakeholder priorities and pressures.
• Build trust across scientific, technical, and business functions.
• Adapt their influencing approach to different audiences.
• Navigate organizational politics constructively.
• Resolve disagreements without damaging relationships.
• Create commitment when decision rights are shared or unclear.
• Collaborate effectively across geographic and functional boundaries.

The objective is not to become more persuasive for persuasion’s sake. It is to create enough strategic alignment to move critical work forward.

Based upon interviews, focus groups, pilot program feedback, and data from our change management simulation, the highly customized Influence and Collaboration Workshop focused on increasing impact, expanding choices, and decreasing stress by helping people to:

• Speak their truth with relevance.
• Move work forward in a meaningful way.
• Build trust and confidence in key relationships.

Designed with the premise that we all have thousands of opportunities to communicate each day and that each interaction rolls up to a master narrative of who we are, how credible we are, and how much integrity we have, the highly experiential influence and communication skills training workshop had five key learning areas reinforced with role-plays, practice, case studies, videos, coaching, feedback, and microlearning job aids:

1. Ensure Goal Clarity from the Beginning
   Why we communicate matters. Every interaction is a moment of truth for us, our audience, our work, and our organization. Get curious about the “why” if you want to drive clarity in the what and how of your communication.
   
   Leadership simulation assessment findings highlight that there is often a wide gap between the intent of our communication and the actual impact.
   
   How might getting clear on your goal improve the quality of your communication, influence, and collaboration?
   
   
2. Unlock Commitment of Key Stakeholders
   Unlocking commitment is about ensuring that your audience is ready and that they care.
   
   Whether you’re preparing the biggest business presentation of your life, sending a routine email, facilitating a meeting, debating a topic, or giving feedback, you must engage your audience or risk a ‘failure to communicate.’
   
   Multiple monologues, don’t make a dialogue. Connect your why to theirs. Collaboration over shared interests creates shared ownership.
   
   How can connecting your goal with compassion for your audience help you be more effective when communicating, influencing, and collaborating?
   
   
3. Have Impactful Ideas in the Eyes of Your Stakeholders
   To communicate for impact, we have to tell a story that is compelling to our audience. If everything is important, nothing is. Prioritize the what, so what, and now what.
   
   Empowering communicators create concise, understandable, and logical narratives that create the space for collaboration, shared ownership, and value for everyone involved.
   
   How impactful are your ideas?
   
   
4. Make It Easy to Take Decisive Action
   Even in overly political work environments, crafting your communication to create the conditions for “yes” should be personal, relevant, and actionable for your audience.
   
   Hope is not a strategy, luck is not a tactic, and great doesn’t happen by accident, it happens by design. So, when putting your communication together, the details always matter. Who, where, when, and how we deliver our communication can make the difference in our audience engaging with us or not.
   
   Pay attention to the details.
   
   Do your communications make it easy for people to say yes?
   
   
5. Ensure Execution Excellence
   When we communicate well, we have credibility and the ability to inspire, engage, and empower everyone around us — when we don’t, we risk losing the trust and confidence of those who we must work with and influence.
   
   Are you consistently following communication best practices?

The Bottom Line
An effective Influence and Collaboration Workshop for Life Sciences should help leaders and teams navigate complex stakeholder environments, influence without authority, manage competing priorities, and build commitment across organizational boundaries. When scientific expertise is combined with organizational savvy and strong collaboration skills, life sciences professionals are better equipped to turn good ideas into coordinated action and deliver critical outcomes faster.

Need to build alignment and influence others more effectively? Download Organizational Savvy: How to Navigate Workplace Politics and Influence Others to learn how to increase your influence and get things done.

About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a trusted performance consulting and training firm that helps high-growth technology, services, and life sciences companies turn strategy into measurable results. We partner with executive teams to build competitive advantage by aligning culture and talent with strategy — so individuals, teams, and organizations perform at their peak. Learn more about how organizational alignment drives performance.

by Tristam Brown: CEO

Tristam Brown is an executive business consultant and organizational development expert with more than three decades of experience helping organizations accelerate performance, build high-impact teams, and turn strategy into execution. As CEO of LSA Global, he works with leaders to get and stay aligned™ through research-backed strategy, culture, and talent solutions that produce measurable, business-critical results. See full bio.