How NZTA Transport Services tooled up with Alicia McKay
Since working with Alicia, the team have improved planning and communication with the teams and increased alignment around the leadership table.
Archive
Everything I've written, newest first.
566 essays
Society
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Less content, more connection
There’s a lot happening online right now. This increase in connection is unprecedented, and incredible. I don’t know about you, but it seems to depend what mood I’m in when I scroll, how it lands. Some posts really hit the spot. Others feel hollow, or add to my overwhelm.
Your new normal webinar
In this webinar, Alicia shares skills for playing a longer game
Webinars
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Dialling into opportunity webinar
In this webinar, Alicia talks about how to accelerate progress in uncertainty
ACENZ Training Partnership: Building strategic skills with consulting engineers
Partnering with ACENZ to level up the impact of technical experts with strategic leadership skills. Watch the video!
Systems
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Systems and mindsets
Do what you’ve always done, and you’ll get what you’ve always got. Think about changing your systems and mindset.
When in doubt, zoom out
Perspective is a funny old thing - the things that are huge when they're right in front of us seem to get smaller when they're further away...
Change
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You can’t work with what you can’t see
Whether it’s too many projects too many tasks or too many black t-shirts, you can't work with what you can't see.
Stop ripping off the community: a rant
Your time is as limited as your money. You're not getting any more of either.
Snow melts from the edges: connect to them
Do you spend enough time looking outside? Are you connected to the edge?
Agreement sucks: aim for productive disagreement
Alignment is not agreement… it’s productive disagreement. Don't aim for agreement.
Aligned leadership teams webinar
In this webinar, Alicia talks about how to align your leadership team
Talking strategic risk with Southland District Council
Strategic risk was firmly on SDC’s mind. Rex Capil, GM- Community and Futures knew there was only one person for the job.
Tamworth Regional Council met a 20 year challenge
Supercharging organisational transformation with Strategy to Action.
Events
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Public Sector Morning Out, Sydney, November 2019
A keynote on strategic change in the public sector: trade-offs, priorities and necessary endings.
Take risks to make progress
Is your team hiding in a shell? You need to take risks to make progress.
Newspaper headlines
The lens of a childhood dream, obituary or a newspaper headline gives us the opportunity to question the meaning of things.