Saturday, March 27, 2010

RBA Program





The Front line manager induction program has been structured well. we have christened it as RBA

the agenda flow is as follows

Talks about the transition from selling to managing & Role and responsibility of a FLM and then training them to manage the various management process as follows

Managing Process

8 main processes to be managed in FLM IP

1. Planning

Management theory

Practice at Ranbaxy

  • BIZCOM Formats
  • Rolling Activity Plan
  • Customer& Geographical Coverage, CIS Document
  • Target setting Principals
  • CRM Planning
  • Productivity / Performance Improvement Plan

2. Organizing

Management theory

Practice at Ranbaxy

Self

  • Data Requirements - What Exits / Who Gives
  • Data Communication -
  • Monthly TP
  • Daily Work sheet /DCR / Market visit report
  • Field work
  • Joint Field work Check list - 10 things to checked
  • Running Check list

Team Group

  • Rep Review meeting - How do I Organize
    • Per work - During the meeting - Post meeting
  • Cycle meetings
    • Per work - During the meeting - Post meeting
  • SLM Review Meeting - His own Review meeting
    • Per work - During the meeting - Post meeting

3. Coordinating

Management theory

Practice at Ranbaxy

Need to discuss the role FLM plays in Coordinating with the following Departments

  • C&F / MRA
  • Marketing
  • Sale Manager Boss
  • Medical - ADRs - Dr Quires
  • Training
  • HR

4. Motivating

Management theory - Maslow / Herzberg

Practice at Ranbaxy

  • Bravo
  • Hats Off
  • Appreciation Mailer
    • How to write one / letter writing
    • What to appreciate
  • Incentive plan - specific to each BU
  • VirAAt Championship Award
  • Trophies
  • Career planning
  • Assessment and development centers

5. Performance Measurements

Management theory

Practice at Ranbaxy

  • Input Factors
    • Coverage
    • Retail Coverage
    • CIS Coverage
    • Core Dr Coverage
    • Missed doctor Analysis
    • Activities Conducted
    • CIS quality validation
    • Name Recall Survey
  • Out Put factors
    • Performance
      • Rs Value, % Ach, % CAGR, % Growth, AVR Growth
    • Brand performance
    • Incentive earners
    • VirAAt Champions
    • How many team members best in
      • All India / Brand Topper / New Products / Overall Toppers

6. Evaluation Tools

Management theory

Practice at Ranbaxy

  • Performance appraisal
  • KRA / Weight ages / KPI
  • Control Tools
    • Code of conduct
    • Adverse Drugs Reporting
    • IFPMA Code
    • Exigency Management
    • Adversity Control
    • Bad Press / Union interface / Customer Blast

7. Control Tools

Management theory

Practice at Ranbaxy


8. Feedback

Management theory

Practice at Ranbaxy

  • Feedback process
    • Sales & Marketing Operation Survey
    • Employee Engagement Survey
    • External Agency Survey

  • Open Feedback
    • Up and down Feedback
    • Feedback to other departments
      • Medical / Marketing/ Training / Boss
    • Positive and negative feedback
    • How to receive and give feedback

FLM at work

  • Prioritization
  • SBU top 10 alignment and integration



VirAAT 101

Since November 09 i have been very busy with this project at work, got heavily involved in recruitment in the past 5 months have achieved the following

  • have interviewed over 1000 people traveled extensively almost 36 flights in Nov and December
  • inducted over 550 participates and training department has trained over 3200 people during this period
  • worked on content creation for the front line managers induction
  • till date trained over 220 front line managers in March 10 and plan to train 200 more in the month of April 10
many changes are taking place on work front
  • the entire region 1 is shifting to Mumbai in April
  • boss is now very actively involved in training
  • we have added many people in the field and now operate out of 26 BU