Leadership

8 steps to make a smart decision

By Reine Escalona on 2020-06-16 0

Imagine you need to choose a comparator for a head-to-head study. How do we usually approach it?

Debate
Meetings
More meetings with other stakeholders
Creating a slide deck
Revising the slide deck
Getting into time pressure
Getting conflicting feedback
Let’s just make a recommendation and find the data that supports this

In today’s episode, we discuss how to manage problems with efficiency, clarity, logic, consistency, alignment, and speed. You’ll learn about the 8 steps to make a smart decision:

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Present like a pro – 14 presentation tips

By Reine Escalona on 2020-06-09 0

Have you been sitting through boring presentations?
Have you felt that the presenter lost the audience in seconds?
Have you found yourself after a presentation thinking – so what?

When you are presenting, you don’t want the audience to feel this way. But how can you deliver a knock-out presentation and wow the audience?

In today’s episode, Benjamin and I discuss 14 presentation tips that really work. We speak about:

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Failed study, new safety finding, mistakes – breaking bad news

By Reine Escalona on 2020-06-02 0

As statisticians, we often need to bring terrible news to the team. We’re the first to know, that a study didn’t reach the primary endpoint, or that safety analyses showed some new signals, or that some analyses contained mistakes, that need to be corrected.

How do you deal with such situations?

In today’s episode, Benjamin and I discuss the following points:

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How to create win-win situations?

By Reine Escalona on 2020-05-26 0

Interview with Justine Rochon

What are win-win situations?
How do we create such win-win situations?

Upon observing on our daily business, we have the tendency to view situations not as win-win but as win-lose. Is it really possible to create these win-win situations?

Today, Justine and I talk about this topic. Win-win is a situation that has the potential to be beneficial to all involved. We also discuss the following points:

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9 learnings from over 100 episodes over 2 years

By Reine Escalona on 2020-04-21 0

This is a very special episode. More than 2 years have passed since Benjamin and I started this podcast.

And today, we are looking back and discuss the last 2 year’s learnings. We discuss the 9 learnings we had and how they apply to you as a listener as well. Specifically, we talk about:

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Learnings from the COVID crisis for statisticians

By Reine Escalona on 2020-03-30 0

As statisticians, we are one of the most capable professionals to understand and to relay the right information to the general public about the most talked-about situation – the Corona Virus.

In today’s episode, I want to express what’s on my mind and on my heart about this topic. It’s a bit of an unusual episode, as I’m very passionate about the topic. You can agree or disagree with my thinking. Please let me know what you think about it.

I discuss my learnings, my reflection about this, and what it says about us as statisticians. I covering:

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Leadership

Interview with Justine Rochon

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