Archives for January 2019

Skills you need to become a better leader! – Interview with Gary Sullivan

By alexanderhschacht on 2019-01-15 0

In the third part of the leadership series with Gary Sullivan, we talk about:

What skills does it takes to influence as a statistician?
When it’s about driving change – what are the rational, operational, and emotional challenges?
How do I get a “seat at the table” and have more influence?

Understanding leadership deeply – trust, relationship, and influence for statisticians – Interview with Gary Sullivan

By alexanderhschacht on 2019-01-08 0

In this second part of the interview with Gary (check here for part 1), we speak about the building blocks of leadership without authority from a statistician’s perspective. We cover questions like:

Is influence the same as power?
What is the role of trust, what are the different elements of trust and how can we improve trust being technical experts?
How can we build relationships at work, that help us to influence change?
Is influence through relationships only relevant “sideways” or also “upwards” and “downwards”?
How do we know, with whom we need to invest in building relationships?
Is there a way of assessing how good our relationships are?

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Impress your supervisor by being super prepared for your goal setting discussion

By alexanderhschacht on 2019-01-01 0

With some nice drinks in our hands, we welcome the new year and commit to new year resolutions. We set our personal goals and pretty soon, we’ll have discussions at work about business related goals.

This episode will help you to not only be ready for the discussions with your supervisor, but also give you tools to reach the goals with better probability than the usual vague new years resolutions.

We’ll start the episode with discussing some reasons for setting goals, which include:

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