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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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Best of the episodes from 2018 and outlook for 2019

By alexanderhschacht on 2018-12-25 0

Happy Christmas! This episode is the last one in 2018 and we will distil the best of the last 40 episodes for you in this Christmas edition of the podcast.

It has been anamazing journey and we will talk about the challenges and the learnings as well as the achievements of the podcast itself. Thus, you’ll get a behind the scenes look into the podcasting work.

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How to work with key opinion leaders (KOLs)

By alexanderhschacht on 2018-12-18 0

KOLs play a major role in the health sector and professionally working together with them will boost your career! This episode provides you with lots of insights and tips.

However, to work successfully with key opinion leaders (KOLs) or key thought leaders (KTLs), you first need to understand the many different roles, they have. From the perspective of a pharmaceutical company, they are:

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The past, presence and future of estimands! Interview with Chrissie Fletcher and Mouna Akacha

By alexanderhschacht on 2018-12-11 0

If you ask someone within the pharma world of statisticians on what is the hottest topic, you most likely will just get: Estimands!

Many scientific events, conference sessions, publications and presentations are organized around this topic. Thus, I’m super happy, that we have Mouna and Chrissie on the podcast as they have presented about this topic at various occasions.

In this episode, you will learn about

the importance of the concept itself and it’s implications
the terminology of the estimand framework
and how it relates to missing data terminology

The episode covers the following questions and gives some examples on the different parts of the framework:

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