Today, we have a special guest, Shanti. Learn while she shares with us her vast experience in the pharmaceutical industry collected over 25 years. She held various positions inside and outside of statistics organization.
Join us while we discuss the following points:
[Read more…] about Taking on leadership roles outside of statisticsWhat are the 5 levels of statistician leadership?
How you can develop your leadership skills over time?
Leadership is multidimensional. It depends on lots of different skills like communication, being a good team player, building trust and relationship, negotiating conflicts, and more. The kind of leadership that I am talking about is not supervising other people or the administrative type of leadership, but it’s a type of cross functional influencing where you lead others that don’t necessarily report to you.
To simplify it, we have developed these 5 levels of statistical leadership:
For today’s episode, Qiqi and I talk about BI-UConn Summer Academy, an initiative we started 3 years ago to help students understand and learn the world of clinical development better and bring them networking opportunities. This hybrid academy is open to both UCOnn students and students outside of UConn. It’s sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim.
Join us and learn more while we talk about the following points:
[Read more…] about A virtual summer academy for statisticiansDo you have a great idea you want to move forward and you need others to buy in?
Maybe you want to improve a process or implement a new analysis approach. Your business partner might be your study team or your supervisor.
Whenever, we want to change something, we usually need others to agree into the next steps.
Listen to this episode while I discuss the following important points:
[Read more…] about 6 steps to prepare before you want to convince your business partnerShould we oversimplify statistics, or should managers learn more about statistics?
If you’ve been working as a statistician for a while, you know that you have to keep it simple if you want managers to understand you. Of course, I speak about those managers not being statisticians themselves.
There are a lot of ways to explain statistical concepts to them, but this adds time to the presentation. Sometimes there won’t even be a presentation, and all you have is sending the report via email.
From reading, from my experience, and from talking to other experienced statisticians, I have distilled the knowledge about this challenge into 5 steps.
Listen to this episode and learn about the 5 steps to present successfully to your upper management:
[Read more…] about 5 steps to present successfully to upper management about complex stats (and everything else)!Outside of statistics departments, we are often seen as tactical and operational implementers. This branding makes it hard for statisticians to be included in strategic discussions. This limits our ability to influence the organizations and projects. It can even lead to entire departments being outsourced or not appropriately funded because of this terrible reputation. I’m long on a journey to fight against this branding. This journey also requires us statisticians to learn about thinking and acting strategically.
Thus, I’m thrilled to talk with Swarna Khare about this topic. Swarna is a long-term listener of the effective statistician and today, it is a great opportunity for her to share with us the ways to think and act more strategic.
We answer the following important points:
[Read more…] about Do you want to think and act more strategically?
