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Plotting your career and preparing the terrain

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Interview with Diana Stuart

For your career, have you ever thought about what mindset you should adapt to?
What do you think marks a “successful” career?
What will help you understand in which direction your career should go?

Diana Stuart, who is a Senior Manager in programming, shares with us her thoughts, lessons, and her vast experience in this field and what we can do to create a robust career with all the surrounding changes.

We also debate these important points:

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3 Time management hacks, that actually work

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Given the pandemic, this episode comes timely as it’s a challenge to manage time while working at home.

But even after the pandemic, this challenge of getting most out of your time will not end.

In today’s episode, Benjamin and I talk about different time management hacks to be productive and efficient while working at home. We talk specifically about these points:

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The Story of Veramed – love and statistics

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Interview with Emma and Matt Jones

Were there times when you thought about creating something bigger than what you had?
Are you equipped and confident enough to implement strategies and plans for future service enhancement?

If your answer is yes, I am sure that you’ll be very interested to hear the story of Matthew and Emma as they will share today their experience on how they started their own company, Veramed, in 2012 after leaving their established careers working in the industry for large pharma and CROs.

We also talk about the following points:

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8 steps to make a smart decision

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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 discuss how to manage problems with efficiency, clarity, logic, consistency, alignment, and speed. You’ll learn about the 8 steps to make a smart decision:

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Present like a pro – 14 presentation tips

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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, Benjamin and I discuss 14 presentation tips that really work. We speak about:

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

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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 and I discuss the following points:

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The podcast is run in association with PSI