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.

Understanding leadership deeply – trust, relationship, and influence for statisticians – Interview with Gary Sullivan

In this second part of the interview with Gary (check here for part 1), we speak about the building blocks of leadership without authority from a statistician’s perspective. We cover questions like: Is influence the same as power? What is the role of trust, what are the different elements of trust and how can we …

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Impress your supervisor by being super prepared for your goal setting discussion

With some nice drinks in our hands, we welcome the new year and commit to new year resolutions. We set our personal goals and pretty soon, we’ll have discussions at work about business related goals. This episode will help you to not only be ready for the discussions with your supervisor, but also give you …

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How to prewire a meeting

Have you ever been proposing or defending a project in a larger meeting – maybe even with senior management – and it didn’t go as smoothly as you would like? Or do you prepare yourself for such a meeting and you feel unsure about what to expect? Then, this episode will help you!

Why should statisticians care about leadership and developing their leadership skills? Interview with Gary Sullivan

We’re launching a new leadership course next year and in this episode, we go into some key questions about statisticians and leadership. We cover the following topics: What is a good definition for leadership? Why should technical statisticians worry about developing leadership skills? What happens, if you have limitations in the leadership skills? What should …

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How to make the right portfolio decisions – Interview with Andreas Sashegyi

We’re all making decisions to optimize our studies. Optimizing project plans across different studies presents further challenges. But how to increase the overall portfolio of a company given its limitations leads yet another set of challenges. Knowing how decisions are taken at this top level helps to understand the bigger picture and why this sometimes …

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