Are you working long hours?
How do you manage your time?
Do you know how to say no?
How do you manage expectations?
We want to achieve our goals and be productive at the same time, i.e. we want to accomplish a lot of things during the day. But is it really effective to work long hours?
In today’s episode, Ian and I discuss working long hours – it’s advantages and disadvantages. We talk about these important points:
- Having clear boundaries at work
- How to say NO
- How to effectively manage your time and expectations
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Ian Ratcliffe
Ian has been a statistician since 2012, having a variety of experience in post-marketing studies, a clinical trial unit, and a CRO. Ian has spent the last four years at IQVIA collaborating with several pharmaceutical companies. Additionally, Ian has contributed to IQVIA’s emerging talent group line managing a team of statisticians and programmers. Ian is also a member of the PSI CALC committee, being part of the team that organises the PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event. Working in different types of company, Ian has seen different approaches to the topic of working hours. The one constant throughout his career has been managing working hours appropriately and value work-life balance. Ian believes in a time-effective approach to working hours and this is passed on to his direct reports and project teams.
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I want to help the community of statisticians, data scientists, programmers and other quantitative scientists to be more influential, innovative, and effective. I believe that as a community we can help our research, our regulatory and payer systems, and ultimately physicians and patients take better decisions based on better evidence.
I work to achieve a future in which everyone can access the right evidence in the right format at the right time to make sound decisions.
When my kids are sick, I want to have good evidence to discuss with the physician about the different therapy choices.
When my mother is sick, I want her to understand the evidence and being able to understand it.
When I get sick, I want to find evidence that I can trust and that helps me to have meaningful discussions with my healthcare professionals.
I want to live in a world, where the media reports correctly about medical evidence and in which society distinguishes between fake evidence and real evidence.
Let’s work together to achieve this.
