The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

3 personal stories of how soft skills have helped me as a statistician


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Friday Episode with Alexander Schacht
🧠 What You’ll Learn:

✔ Why I believe “soft skills” is the wrong term—and what we should call them instead

✔ How I built trust in just 15 minutes with someone I'd never met before

✔ The story behind a data visualization that got standing ovations

✔ A negotiation win that shifted how I think about value

✔ How the Medical Data Leaders community helps you grow in these areas

🔧 Skills I Talk About:

✔ Leading with Empathy and Influence

✔ Building Trust

✔ Communicating with Impact

✔ Presenting Data in Engaging Ways

✔ Strategic Negotiation

🎧 Give it a listen and hear how these human skills have helped me—and how they can help you too.

Resources & Links


🔗 The Effective Statistician Academy – I offer free and premium resources to help you become a more effective statistician.
🔗 Medical Data Leaders Community – Join my network of statisticians and data leaders to enhance your influencing skills.
🔗 My New Book: How to Be an Effective Statistician - Volume 1 – It’s packed with insights to help statisticians, data scientists, and quantitative professionals excel as leaders, collaborators, and change-makers in healthcare and medicine.
🔗 PSI (Statistical Community in Healthcare) – Access webinars, training, and networking opportunities.

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The Effective Statistician - in association with PSIBy Alexander Schacht and Benjamin Piske, biometricians, statisticians and leaders in the pharma industry

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