The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

Working in an english work environment as a non-native speaker

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🧠 What You’ll Learn:

✔ How I improved my English on the job (despite not having great grades in school)

✔ Why consuming high-quality English content (like podcasts, TED Talks, and books) made a big difference

✔ Tips for writing regularly—even journaling—and using tools like ProWritingAid

✔ How slowing down when speaking actually makes you sound more confident

✔ Why making mistakes is part of the process—and doesn’t reflect on your intelligence

✔ Simple phrases I use to clarify or ask questions in meetings

✔ How to shift your mindset from perfection to communication

✔ The power of practicing with others and surrounding yourself with supportive people

🔧 Who It's For:

✔ If you’re working in a global team, attending meetings in English, or just want to become more confident in how you communicate at work, this episode is for you—especially if English isn’t your first language.

🎯 Final Thought:


Being a non-native speaker means you’re already multilingual—and that’s a strength. With practice and the right mindset, you’ll thrive in any English-speaking work environment.

Resources & Links

🔗 ProWritingAid – A helpful writing assistant tool I personally use
🔗 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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About this podcast

The podcast from statisticians for statisticians to have a bigger impact at work. This podcast is set up in association with PSI - Promoting Statistical Insight. This podcast helps you to grow your leadership skills, learn about ongoing discussions in the scientific community, build you knowledge about the health sector and be more efficient at work. This podcast helps statisticians at all levels with and without management experience. It is targeted towards the health, but lots of topics will be important for the wider data scientists community.

by Alexander Schacht and Benjamin Piske, biometricians, statisticians and leaders in the pharma industry

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