This blended online program will strengthen your leadership skills to improve your impact at work even if you don’t have direct reports
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Do you struggle to convince your business partners?
Do you feel excluded from key discussions?
Do you want to improve your influence within your organization?
Then this program will help you!
What you will get from this program
1. Understanding the foundations
You will deeply understand leadership and aquire tools for building a foundation as an effective statistical leader. Upon completion of the program you will be able to:
- Explain the role that trust and communication play in developing a strong foundation for your statistical leadership.
- Apply communication concepts and techniques for various leadership situations you face as a statistician.
- Apply techniques for building trust with your statistical collaborators and colleagues.
2. Influencing and creating change
You will gain knowledge about the business and science how to influence projects and create change. After the program, you will be able to:
- State the importance of developing business acumen and provide approaches to understand the business and/or science of your statistical collaborators
- Explain different ways to best influence thinking and decisions, assess opportunities to influence statistical thinking and methods, and develop approaches to impact those opportunities;
- Begin to generate and formulate ideas to improve business processes through statistical means
3. Development and implementation of personal action plan
You will create and implement your personal action plan for continually improved statistical leadership. After finalization of the program you will have formulated and implemented specific actions to:
- Improve your communication skills and build trust with collaborators;
- Improve your understanding of the business, identified an opportunity for statistical influence, and develop a plan to enact;
- Continue your study and application of leadership concepts;
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From statisticians for statisticians!
About Alexander Schacht
I have studied mathematics and received my PhD in biostatistics on non-parametric statistics from the University of Göttingen in Germany. I authored more than 70 scientific manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and regularly speak at international conferences – both statistical ones like PSI and medical ones like EADV. During my career at university and within the pharma industry, I have collected more than 20 years of experience.
My career focused mostly on phase III and IV (RCT, observational studies, HTA submission, commercialization work) with some time spent in earlier phases of clinical development.
I’m interested in a broad range of methodological areas but specifically on making better decisions based on data. As such, I was the chair of the EFSPI/SPI SIG about benefit-risk assessments.
In 2018, I got elected to the board of directors of PSI being responsible for the communications comittee.
At work, I supervise a small but mighty team of statisticians in a large pharma company. The virtual work environment requires me to adjust my communication style and focus on my ability to deliver results effectively through others and cross-functionally.
I’m a student of leadership all of my career, which helped me to become promoted on a regular basis and much faster than the average. Many of my podcast episodes touch on these experiences and skills.
I’m a happy husband and father of 3 wonderful kids, who I love to spend time with. In the rest of my time, I love running and listening to podcasts.
About Gary Sullivan
Dr. Gary Sullivan is a Leadership Specialist and Statistical Scientist for Espirer Consulting. He retired from Eli Lilly and Company in 2017 as the Senior Director for Non-Clinical Statistics.
He joined Eli Lilly in 1989 and held various technical and administrative roles over his 28 years there. While at Eli Lilly, he co-developed a leadership program for their statistics function and led the administration of that program from 2009–2017. He brought aspects of that program to the American Statistical Association (ASA) and led the development and instruction of the first leadership course at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in 2014. He has organized and/or taught this course at JSM from 2015 to 2018, and served as the Chair of the ASA Ad Hoc Leadership Committee for 2017-2018.
He is currently working with the ASA to develop & administer additional leadership training in cultural competence, decision influence, and executive presence. He has provided leadership training to over 300 professionals in statistics and other fields at Eli Lilly and within the ASA. He has organized and participated on leadership panels, and authored several articles and a book chapter on leadership.
Dr. Sullivan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the University of Pittsburgh, and both a Master’s and Doctorate in Statistics from Iowa State University.
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Program information
The program consists of six 4-weekly cycles. Within each cycle, you will receive training via different channels. Each cycle follows this structure:
- Webinar with question and answers,
- Moderated small group discussion
- Podcast episode
- Moderated small group discussion, mastermind – 4 weekly cycle
The small groups will contain only 4 to 6 members to increase interactivity, address individual challenges and questions. They will also serve as accountability groups to follow up on the implementation of the training at work.
We plan to open also a private facebook group as a bonus. This will enable us to stay in contact and answer questions fast. You will remain in the facebook group also after completion of the program.
We want your feedback!
We are creating this course for you but also together with you as we dive into the content. Thus, we will ask continously for your feedback to improve the program. That’s why we are offering this initial program for a reduced price.
What you will learn
Each of the six 4-weekly cycles will follow one larger topic. These are:
- Communication
- 1:1 communication,
- presentation,
- virtual communication,
- email,
- communication style,
- goals of communication,
- misunderstandings, and
- dealing with challenging situations.
- Trust
- value of trust
- building trust activities
- avoiding trust diminishing actions
- Understanding the business
- value of understanding the business
- example activities to increase business understanding
- Influence
- mindset – willingness to influence
- how to influence without authority
- change management
- working effectively with difficult business partners
- Decision-Making
- mindset – consultant or decision maker
- analysis paralysis
- embracing uncertainty
- common blind spots
- Focus and Action Planning
- goal setting
- habits
- communication and execution
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Why your supervisor should support you attending this program
- More and more, organizational decisions and strategy are being driven by data … how its generated and how its analyzed. As the experts in design, analysis and interpretation of data, statisticians need to not just be at the center of these discussions but also have the ability to influence direction & strategy, impact decision-making, and develop & contribute their own ideas to deliver greater value to an organization or cause. This requires stronger leadership.
- Statisticians have the raw skills to be strong leaders: We are deep thinkers, good at framing/structuring problems, able to synthesize and process information, adept at problem solving, learning agile, smart & curious, and have high integrity. This is a great foundation for leadership.
- In order to be more effective leaders, statisticians need to improve or develop other skills including communication & presence, conflict management, influence & negotiation, business acumen & business judgment, and courage.
- In order to improve leadership, a statistician must continually invest in their development and apply what they learn. This course will not only provide the relevant content for statistical leadership but will serve as a vehicle for study and application on a weekly basis for a period of about six months. This will instill the skills & practice and create the habit of leadership study that will serve the statistician well beyond the duration of the course.
- Finally, the positive outcomes will be numerous … value to the organization or cause, an increase in quantitative thinking across the organization, and greater visibility & reward for statisticians to name a few. Additionally, these new statistical leaders will serve as role models for their colleagues which can begin a virtual cycle of improved leadership and impact across the statistical group. Simply put, it will make a big difference – for the statistician, their function, their company, and their customers/stakeholders.
Price structure
You have two options to enroll into the program:
- One-time payment of 1499€ for the complete program of 24 weeks
- 849€ for the first 12 weeks of the program with the option to enroll for the second 12 weeks for another 849€.
All prices exclude taxes.
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Frequently asked questions
How long do I have access to the material?
If you enroll for the complete 24 weeks (either with one or two payments), you will have life-time access to the course. We plan to offer this course on a continuous basis and will improve the content over time as well as add further material. Thus, as long as the site is mantained, you will have access.
How much time, do I need to invest?
Plan to spend about 1 hour per week for the content over the 24 weeks. The implementation of the training will happen in your day-to-day activities and interactions.
What happens to the small group discussions after completion of the course?
We anticipate, that the groups will develop enough team spirit in the 24 weeks to live in a self-organized way beyond the completion of the course.
What happens, if I don’t like the course?
Oh no! We don’t want that! We offer a 24 days money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the course for any reason, let us know and we will refund your payment within 24 days. We would appreciate notification within the first 24 days of the course.
What happens to me, if the others participating in my small group drop out?
We will combine too small groups with the other groups. As long as there is at least one group with at least 4 participants, we will run the program.
When does the course start?
The first course will start on with it’s first webinar on Tuesday February 26th, 2019 at 5pm CET – 11am EST. We plan for all webinars to be in this time frame. We plan to re-open the course periodically. Use the email signup box below to receive notifications when the course reopens.