As a Statistician - Do You Take the Back Seat or Do You Drive Yourself? (Episode 24)
In this podcast episode, we discuss an important part of leadership – proactive behaviour. Or simply put—drive!
As a statistician, your day-to-day approach to this topic will build up to long-term success.
We discuss various aspects of the drive including:
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On Building Your Own Company (Episode 23)
In this episode, we’ll cover an amazing story by one of the best programmers and mentors I ever worked with - Shafi Chowdhury (www.shaficonsultancy.com).
We’ll explore how it changed from being a freelance programmer only to building his company on the side. He had a great vision in mind, that drove him forward.
You’ll also hear about his approach to teaching and mentoring – or in general helping people do their job better. His abundance mindset inspires me a lot. Shafi explains, why and how he made his own job redundant in his own company.
Retention is a major cost driver and disrupts some companies a lot. You’ll learn how he manages to have nearly no turnover in his company and how is approach to recruiting and training new employees fits in to this.
Further, we’ll cover how and why Shafi and his team regularly presenting at different conferences. We’ll especially go deeper on this presentation at the PSI conference in 2017 about an amazing tool to analyse and visualize data at the same time. His approach to delivering all this innovation is very unique.
Finally, you’ll learn a lot about the leadership attitude that helped him grow his business fast into a medium-sized CRO with a very stable client base.
How to Write Impactful and Effective Emails While Avoiding Common Mistakes (Episode 20)
Do you have a lot of email ping-pong, where emails go back and forth many times – too many times?
Are you aware about the brand of you, that you communicate with your email style?
Is email your default communication tool?
Then this episode is for you. We have researched various articles on good email writing copies and distilled the best for you in this episode.
By listening to this episode, you will learn about:
When is email the best way to communicate?
Approaches to attachments.
How to take care of your style?
How to structure your emails?
About different email cultures
Simple actionable tricks to improve your effectiveness directly
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