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“Those managerial egos were pleasantly piqued. What helped was the opening gambit: a detailed metric analysis of Rambo films.”

At 11.30 on Thursday 21 February, Diana Taylor, Medical Writer and Trainer of Parexel will give the following presentation:

Involving metrics early in a new employee's work: risks and benefits

• The dual nature: metrics and performance - balancing the odds
• Individual metrics for the individual employee?
• Life with metrics for medical writers at a CRO: an example

Background to London, 2008

An insider`s account, by Dr. Diana A. Taylor.

In devising and shaping a conference talk under such circumstances is, therefore, no different to the core aim of medical writing itself: devising, shaping and delivering information for the intended–and assumed–audience/s.

We are all fated to be on someone else’s list. Some are known, most unknown, many unwelcome, and a few much appreciated. One of the former for me is the one kept in a database by colleagues at the Institute of International Research, owned since 2006 by Informa UK.

The list confirms that I can be called upon to speak at conferences on subjects directly or tangentially associated with my core work activity–medical writing, a subject on which I have been happy to lead IIR workshops across Europe since 2002.While the advantages of the arrangement can be obvious, each invitation comes with its own bundle of logistic and, often stimulating, professional demands.

As experience has uncomfortably shown, for example, the invitation usually comes during the very final stages of the conference planning; a point where the general story is in plain view, the participant numbers are looking healthy and fine-tuning is now the order of the day and night. So my requested talk must be quickly formulated, abstracted, and a PowerPoint delivered at very short notice to Informa HQ in London...

The account continues at.-
http://healthywords.edublogs.org/on-shaping-a-talk