Leadership

Everything you want to know about leadership, influencing, and create alignment to move forward effectively as a statistician. This is about administrative leadership as well as leading without a title like in cross-functional teams.

Can introverts be good negotiators?

Interview with Lousin Mehrabi Many statisticians and data scientists see themselves as introverts. Does this imply, that we are therefore bad negotiators? What are the limitations and strength of introverts in negotiations?What does listening really mean and why is it important for negotiations?How do to handle different emotions during negotiations or emotional hijack? It is …

Can introverts be good negotiators? Read More »

Taking on leadership roles outside of statistics

Interview with Shanthi Sethuraman 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:

5 levels of statistical leadership

What 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 …

5 levels of statistical leadership Read More »

A virtual summer academy for statisticians

Interview with Dooti and Qiqi 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 …

A virtual summer academy for statisticians Read More »

6 steps to prepare before you want to convince your business partner

Do 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 …

6 steps to prepare before you want to convince your business partner Read More »

5 steps to present successfully to upper management about complex stats (and everything else)!

Should 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 …

5 steps to present successfully to upper management about complex stats (and everything else)! Read More »