Dr. Alexander Schacht

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Why do you need personal leadership principles?
How can you refine and reflect them?
What kind of leader do you want to be?
Is it possible to be a leader even without a title?

I will talk about personal leadership today and this is not being a leader by position, but by principle. I will be talking about these interesting points:

Why personal leadership principles are important?

• Reflect on who you want to be
• Remind you to hold yourself accountable
• Help you focus on your learning
• Be aware of the flip sides of these

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My Personal Leadership Principles

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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Why do you need personal leadership principles?
How can you refine and reflect them?
What kind of leader do you want to be?
Is it possible to be a leader even without a title?

I will talk about personal leadership today and this is not being a leader by position, but by principle. I will be talking about these interesting points:

Why personal leadership principles are important?

• Reflect on who you want to be
• Remind you to hold yourself accountable
• Help you focus on your learning
• Be aware of the flip sides of these

Weiterlesen …

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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To give you an update, I’ll be sharing with you what I have learned from the past year about visualization as I worked a lot of these – the exploratory and explanatory visualization.

These kinds of visualization helped me a lot to open new doors and made me amazingly easy to stand out from other statisticians.

In this episode, I am sharing the following points:

• Visualization help you sell your work
  • Easily understandable
  • Easy to stand out
  • Is fun to create

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My Personal Lessons from using Various Data Visualizations

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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To give you an update, I’ll be sharing with you what I have learned from the past year about visualization as I worked a lot of these – the exploratory and explanatory visualization.

These kinds of visualization helped me a lot to open new doors and made me amazingly easy to stand out from other statisticians.

In this episode, I am sharing the following points:

• Visualization help you sell your work
  • Easily understandable
  • Easy to stand out
  • Is fun to create

Weiterlesen …

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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What are typical meetings you would be invited to as a statistician?

• Study meeting
• Project meetings
• Team meetings

In this episode, I talk about the important questions that we need to answer and the points we need to consider to ensure an effective meeting.

Here are the steps you can follow and what can you do if these steps are not followed in a meeting you’re invited to:

• What is the goal you want to achieve?
• Do you need a meeting at all?
• Who is really needed for the meeting?
  • Who will contribute?
  • Who could derail the outcome?
  • Who would you need as an ally potentially?

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How to run Effective Meetings, even if you are just a participant

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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What are typical meetings you would be invited to as a statistician?

• Study meeting
• Project meetings
• Team meetings

In this episode, I talk about the important questions that we need to answer and the points we need to consider to ensure an effective meeting.

Here are the steps you can follow and what can you do if these steps are not followed in a meeting you’re invited to:

• What is the goal you want to achieve?
• Do you need a meeting at all?
• Who is really needed for the meeting?
  • Who will contribute?
  • Who could derail the outcome?
  • Who would you need as an ally potentially?

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Dr. Alexander Schacht

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What can we do about indirect comparisons to make it better and more efficient rather than using the usual technique?
What are the indirect comparisons in terms of the efficacy of different drugs?
What experiences have you had when the type of one-to-one approach is better?

In today’s episode, Daniel and I talk about these questions and discuss more the following points:

• Bucher vs MAIC – advantages and disadvantages
• Methodik MAIC
• NICE technical document (http://nicedsu.org.uk/technical-support-documents/population-adjusted-indirect-comparisons-maic-and-stc/) – including R code

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Everything you need to know about matching adjusted indirect comparisons

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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What can we do about indirect comparisons to make it better and more efficient rather than using the usual technique?
What are the indirect comparisons in terms of the efficacy of different drugs?
What experiences have you had when the type of one-to-one approach is better?

In today’s episode, Daniel and I talk about these questions and discuss more the following points:

• Bucher vs MAIC – advantages and disadvantages
• Methodik MAIC
• NICE technical document (http://nicedsu.org.uk/technical-support-documents/population-adjusted-indirect-comparisons-maic-and-stc/) – including R code

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Dr. Alexander Schacht

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Given the pandemic, this episode comes timely as it’s a challenge to manage time while working at home.

But even after the pandemic, this challenge of getting most out of your time will not end.

In today’s episode, Benjamin and I talk about different time management hacks to be productive and efficient while working at home.

We talk specifically about these points:

Things you should establish first:

• Be clear on your goals and keep them in front of you
• Focus on building great habits as these will carry you to success

Three time management hacks:

1. Saying no and turning things back – reflect work
2. Focus your efforts and concentration (schedule time, manage distractions)
3. Get and stay organized (calendar, to-dos, meetings, filing ….) – apply the 4 principles from Atomic Habits

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3 Time Management Hacks, That Actually Work

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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Given the pandemic, this episode comes timely as it’s a challenge to manage time while working at home.

But even after the pandemic, this challenge of getting most out of your time will not end.

In today’s episode, Benjamin and I talk about different time management hacks to be productive and efficient while working at home.

We talk specifically about these points:

Things you should establish first:

• Be clear on your goals and keep them in front of you
• Focus on building great habits as these will carry you to success

Three time management hacks:

1. Saying no and turning things back – reflect work
2. Focus your efforts and concentration (schedule time, manage distractions)
3. Get and stay organized (calendar, to-dos, meetings, filing ….) – apply the 4 principles from Atomic Habits

Weiterlesen …