Today we’re answering a question from the listeners. As nearly everybody will need to train non-statisticians sooner or later, this is a relevant topic. Unfortunately, lots of the trainings fall short and leave the audience confused and even bored.

This episode helps you to make your training engaging, interesting, and useful. Such training will help you to build your reputation as an expert as well as a great person to work with. It’s an awesome experience for non-statisticians if they have a light-bulb moment while being trained in statistics.

Listen to the episode and learn about these 11 tips to make your training successful:
  • Start with a relevant example
  • Collect questions upfront and track the progress of answering them during the training
  • Create regular meetings to engage people
  • Interrupt your presentations by asking questions
  • Use contrasts to show the impact
  • Have a physician first introduce the example study
  • Don’t shy away from speaking to very basic things like p-values
  • Prefer whiteboard over slides
  • Use technology to your advantage in virtual settings
  • Make pre-read easy
  • Collect feedback

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