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How to train non-statisticians effectively – 11 tips to succeed

By alexanderhschacht on 2019-04-18 0

Today we’re answering a question from the listeners. As nearly everybody will need to train non-statisticians sooner or later, this is a relevant topic. Unfortunately, lots of the trainings fall short and leave the audience confused and even bored.

This episode helps you to make your training engaging, interesting and useful. Such a training will help you to build your reputation as an expert as well as a great person to work with. It’s an awesome experience for non-statistician, if they have a light-bulb moment while being trained on statistics.

Listen to the episode and learn about these 11 tips to make your training successful:

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The rise of R and what role the AIMS SIG plays in it

By alexanderhschacht on 2019-01-29 0

Do you think, R can’t be used for regulatory submissions?
Are you forced to use SAS but would like to use R instead?
Would you like to understand how you can make R submission proof?

Then this interview with Lyn Tailor and Craig McIlloney helps you. Both work on the PSI special interest group Application and Implementation of Methodologies in Statistics (AIMS) on this topics.

Furthermore, we cover the following topics:

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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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How to prewire a meeting

By alexanderhschacht on 2018-12-04 0

Have you ever been proposing or defending a project in a larger meeting – maybe even with senior management – and it didn’t go as smoothly as you would like?

Or do you prepare yourself for such a meeting and you feel unsure about what to expect?

Then, this episode will help you!

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How to prepare for your year end review to stand out!

By alexanderhschacht on 2018-11-27 0

Same procedure every year – the year end review as part of the performance management appears on your calendar. Are you worried about filling in forms? Do you feel like this is not adding value?

In this episode, we give you practical tips how to master the review like a pro.

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Getting things done, when timelines are tight – learnings from a self-experiment in deep work

By alexanderhschacht on 2018-10-16 0

Everybody knows such situations: tight timelines, high expectations and many things to do!

But how can we work effectively in such situations. Many different productivity experts have written about this topic.

In this episode, I’m speaking about how to implement these approaches and also my personal learnings and challenges during a time, where I needed them.

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