Were there times you think about creating something bigger than what you currently have?
Are you equipped and confident enough to start implementing strategies and plans for future service enhancement?

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

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?

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?

What are win-win situations for you?
How to create such win-win situations?

Upon observing on our daily business, however, we have the tendency to view situations not as win-win but rather as win-lose. Is it really possible to have such kind of situation?

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?

How do you create effective data visualization?
How do you effectively understand and communicate your data?

This episode helps you to explore different perspectives and approaches to create more effective visualizations. Andy and Eva from MakeoverMonday offer inspiration and a dose of perspective for those who communicate data.

"A core outcome set (COS) is an agreed standardised set of outcomes that should be measured and reported, as a minimum, in all clinical trials in specific areas of health or health care".

The Introduction to Industry Training (ITIT) gives the delegates a taste of life across the pharmaceutical industry from early drug discovery to marketing, from CRO to Big Pharma and across the UK and continental Europe. The course aims to show the delegates the breadth and depth of work that goes on the industry and give them ideas of where they can get involved. PSI organized this course into 6 two-day sessions, each covering a stage of drug development and each hosted at a different company. The host company will give their unique perspective from experts in the field.

This is a very special episode. More than 2 years have passed since Benjamin and I started this podcast.