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.

Do you want to think and act more strategically?

Interview with Swarna Khare 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 …

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Knowledge sharing and what it means for you

Interview with Nelson Knowledge sharing is close to my heart and Nelson, who is a very knowledgeable statistician, has shared a lot of articles in LinkedIn and on his website. Nelson has always been keen to learn from others and share that knowledge broadly, so we’ll be exploring similarities and differences in how he’s seen that …

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8 steps to make a smart decision

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 …

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Present like a pro – 14 presentation tips

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, …

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

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 …

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