Sam Young

Coaching, training and guiding clients of all stripes to achieve goals, broker difficult conversations, and negotiate win:win solutions.

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Durrell's SWEAT framework
Have you heard of the SWEAT framework before? Turns out is a personal SWOT analysis. Learn more at https://t.co/HXXu3n0zAE

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Career identity
Do we consider our career identity enough? I briefly explore four career identities set during secondary school at https://t.co/jsNOZxMgdI

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Wicked problem solutions
Is there a way we can work to solve wicked problems? I take a look at https://t.co/97fEwUmjXu

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Phantom locked cells in Excel
Have you ever gone to enter data into an Excel spreadsheet and not been able to? The cell looks unlocked (and unprotected), but still will not allow data to be entered? I have a simple fix https://t.co/sC6VnCdMaO

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Goal setting research
What the research says about goal setting is quite interesting: learn more at https://t.co/CNfJcm38WC

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Bump of Language
Where does the phrase, “bump of language” come from? I take a look at https://t.co/PhC7PDvZbV

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Using a session framework
When we see clients, using a framework to guide us in how our session evolve can help us to select - or to discount - different tools for use with our clients. I link to three earlier frameworks and explore two new ones at https://t.co/0kklYFYv7r

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Reflection. It is such a useful thing, and we could all do it more often. But sometimes we need a framework to help us. I have found a great framework at the 750 Words site, and have been reflecting away since 2015. Why not give it try, at https://t.co/dFwxkUnrGV

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Niksen, the Dutch art of doing nothing
Niksen is the Dutch concept of doing absolutely, utterly nothing, arising from an unusual verb, “to nothing”, niks. We free ourselves of goals; a walk is just a walk; a conversation is just talk. Learn more at https://t.co/udr4b2rH3M

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Deselecting multiple tabs in Excel
Have you ever found that you have inadvertently got multiple tabs selected in an Excel workbook and find yourself unable to deselect them again? I can hel you fix it at https://t.co/emopkEWMJ3

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AI Hallucination
Heard of AI Hallucination? If you – like me – get the feeling that a lot of AI product is too dodgy to use, read on at https://t.co/g49NaelhQj

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Breakeven between ICE and EV
Where is the breakeven point is in driving an electric vehicle (EV), as compared to an old car with an internal combustion engine (ICE)? I do some back of the envelope calcs at https://t.co/Y8jqJKdeZB

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The innovation index
The EU nations appear to be highly innovative societies, with, according to the Global Innovation Index 2022? Check out https://t.co/gIim1XQXqe

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The four day week
The research seems to show that finding a way to compress work into a four day week can generate creative steamlining of job tasks in organisations: effectively making them more productive. Read on at https://t.co/cxnOhhtHTr

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Seeing VBA code in MS Access
Do you know the hot keys to bring up the visual basic code (VBA) window in Access? Neither did I. Read more at https://t.co/jlxbvJxDYl

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Work engagement
So what is work engagement, and why do employers tend to reap more direct benefits of that engagement than employees do? Check out https://t.co/zEiYryw2r0

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Women's work
Statistics show that women spend more time on cooking and caring, yet why don’t we count these unpaid hours as ‘work’? I think our ideas are a bit skewed. Read more at https://t.co/GN69FFsT7V

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Importing transcripts into Excel
When citing from YouTube video, grabbing the transcript helps us accurately cite what was said. But there are some tricks for tidying it up. Read on at https://t.co/rJWh6u0r9K

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Upside-down management
UK retail chain, Timpsons, have roughly 2000 outlets throughout the UK, running on a philosophy reminiscent of Nordstrom in the USA. Check out https://t.co/RdIaeVTaiJ

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Segmentors and integrators
Apparently there are two main clusters of boundary creators: those of us who blend home and work, and those of us who don’t like to. Read more at https://t.co/gJAXUFNiEd