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COVID-19 has created challenges for nearly every market, and the medical device manufacturing industry is no exception. As the virus sweeps the globe, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for leaders to overcome the arising challenges and prepare for the future.
While I firmly believe the key to navigating this evolving landscape is putting quality at the forefront of all activities, a function made seamless through best of breed quality management tools, I was curious what other industry leaders had to say.
The following are some of their best tips for effectively leading and managing teams during the COVID-19 pandemic and preparing your organization for what’s to come.
Keep in touch. Let your people know where things stand with the business. At home or in the office practicing social distancing, each of your workers will be dealing with different issues, both private and professional. The distributed workforce requires even more channels to help people stay connected.
“Leadership needs to provide regular communication, be transparent about the impact of the pandemic on your company, and set expectations with your team, investors, partners, and customers. There is a great deal of uncertainty in the world, and clarity from management is one of the keys to a healthy organization.” — Paul Grand, CEO, MedTech Innovator
Be sensitive to employees’ personal situations. Every member has their own worries and family needs during this crisis. Review goals and when needed realign expectations to match current circumstances.
Balance the content. Focus on efficiency in meetings to ensure your team still has time to do their work and manage their personal situation. The recommended time for meetings should be 15 minutes with no more than 4 people per meeting
Office time should be reduced. To avoid conflicts, make sure yo manage expectations. Be clear about your expectations and the expectation from your team during these challenging times. The last thing you want to do is have misunderstandings or conflicts with a good working team.
The key purpose of a leader is to continuously motivate and support the team. Talk about work-life structures, supporting flexible working arrangements, and vocalizing empathy towards your workmates. As a leader, you must empower them to deliver their best work while being absolutely empathetic towards challenges in their life.
Focus on the fact that COVID-19 is temporary. The natural instinct may be to slow down and withdraw resources. Instead, this is an excellent time to strategically plan and dedicate time, staff, and resources to ensuring that the post-pandemic time capitalizes on key changes.
Just because you can’t conduct research the way you always have doesn’t mean you can’t conduct research at all. It is important to stay flexible with the research methods you use. Understanding the pros and cons of each method and their overall ability to contribute to your research goal is critical to conducting meaningful and useful research.
All companies are working to lead their teams through today’s challenges with confidence. By taking care of your team and keeping quality you will improve the teamwork collaboration, communication, and transparency.
Today's customers expect nothing less than products of the highest quality, and it is incumbent on all manufacturers to assure this expectation is met. A proven technique for checking whether a manufacturing process is in control is a manufacturing audit.
A manufacturing audit is a comprehensive inspection of a process to determine whether it is performing satisfactorily. A manufacturing audit is usually limited to a small portion of units produced, but the manufacturing processes involved are reviewed thoroughly. An audit does not replace normal quality control efforts, but supplements them.
Medical audit is a systematic approach to peer review of medical care in order to identify opportunities for improvement and provide a mechanism for realizing them. Medical audit and clinical audit are often used interchangeably, but clinical audit might be considered to cover all aspects of clinical care-for example, nursing and the role of paramedical staff-whereas medical audit relates to practices initiated directly by doctors. It complements and may partly overlap financial audit, utilization review, and management of resources, but is primarily clinical, not managerial; its focus is the process and results of medical care rather than the use of resources and it is the responsibility of doctors rather than managers.
There are many reasons for conducting a manufacturing audit:
Kaiyan Medical got another audit supplier recognition by Made-in-China. We like to keep our audits and quality standards to the top in order to assure the best experience for our customers and clients
https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/299/6697/498.full.pdf
Defining your user needs is crucial to get on the right track before diving into design and development of your medical device. So...
Of course, the more questions you add, the better. At least, you should cover these 10 questions in order to have a better idea of the needs of your user regarding their medical device.
