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NEW YORK, November 20, 2003—American Management
Association (AMA) presented its 2003 “Leadership in Training Award”
to Wyeth, a global leader in pharmaceuticals, consumer health care products
and animal health care products and one of the world’s largest research-driven
pharmaceutical and health care products companies. Eric Gibson, Wyeth’s
Executive Director of Management Training and Development, received the
Award during AMA’s 80th Anniversary Forum on Meeting the Challenges
of Leadership.
“AMA created the “Leadership in Training
Award” to recognize a member company that fully appreciates the
critical role training plays in the success of business and that consistently
encourages its employees, business partners and customers to sharpen their
skills and acquire new knowledge. The Award was given to Wyeth for its
commitment to training, its imaginative programs and its belief in ongoing
education.
Wyeth acknowledges that its record of achievements is
due to the contributions of its 52,000 employees. It is the employees
who keep Wyeth on the cutting edge of innovation, and enable it to deliver
superior customer service. In fact, even though the healthcare industry
is undergoing rapid change, Wyeth has taken a very pro-active stand. It
is leveraging the Federal Drug Administration’s guidelines as a
springboard for new and powerful opportunities in education and training.
“Through a recent grant to AMA from Wyeth, we
are together learning about and assessing the current healthcare market
needs and developing them into training initiatives. These unique, customized
programs are sharply focused to meet the specific educational needs of
Wyeth’s customers and provide critical medical credits to doctors,
nurses and pharmacists,” said Pat Leonard, AMA’s Executive
Vice President of U.S. Management Education.
Wyeth has also translated four major mandates from the
FDA into its own tailor-made training and education program. Courses designed
for and delivered to Wyeth staff and customers incorporate ways to:
- Improve the patient experience
- Stress increasing business knowledge
- Demonstrate efficiency to lower costs, and
- Display and impart the value of quality
For the past 13 years, AMA and Wyeth have been training partners, working
together to make current training activities as effective as possible
while planning for change in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
About AMA
American Management Association is the world’s leading membership-based
management development organization. For 80 years, it has provided valuable
and practical action-oriented learning programs to people at all levels,
in all industries, from companies and agencies of all sizes. More than
500,000 AMA customers and members a year learn new skills and behaviors,
gain more confidence, advance their careers and contribute to the success
of their organizations through a wide range of AMA seminars, conferences
and executive forums, as well as through AMA books and publications, research
and print and online self-study courses.
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