How MBIE's Corporate, Governance and Information team got everyone on board
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Archive
Everything I've written, newest first.
566 essays
Identity
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How running a marathon became resilience skills training
17 lessons marathon running became resilience skills training.
Fear breeds complexity: simplify the public sector
The Global Simplicity Index tells us that, in the private sector, simplicity pays. Government should take this lead.
Leaders as strategists webinar
In this webinar, Alicia talks about strategic leadership.
Events
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Association of Local Government Information Managers (ALGIM) CX Conference, Christchurch, November 2019
Do The Right Shit! A keynote on priorities and priority conversations
Change
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Design and delivery are better together
When we connect the big picture and the ground-floor, we can make better, faster progress. Connect design and delivery.
Change
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Take the handbrake off: systems change
Eliminate points of friction for systems change, by looking at policy, process, people and budgets.
Events
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Public Sector Morning Out, Melbourne, August 2019
Keynote - Strategy to Action: Getting Shit Done In The Public Sector
Strategic risk webinar
In this webinar, Alicia talks about how to use strategic risk to make better, faster decisions
Preparation beats prediction
Are you suffering more in imagination than in reality? Or worse - not confronting reality at all? Does your team ‘get’ risk? Here's some handy advice.
Identity
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True freedom is making your own rules
What rules do you need to set for yourself, to do more of what matters? True freedom is about making those rules and sticking to them.
Change
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Strike while the iron is hot
Keep change momentum moving, if you want people to continue to care.
Change
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Change is instead of, not as well as
Change can't be extra, we’re already at maximum capacity. Real change needs to be conversion, not addition.
Events
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Advancing Female Public Leaders, Auckland, July 2019
Workshop for Auckland Council female leaders on navigating a political organisation.
Change
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All change is people change
Whether you’re driving technology change, process change, service delivery change, or any other kind of shift, we need people to come on the journey, and we need to make it possible for them to make ideas real.
Events
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Author talk at Scorpio Books, Christchurch, June 2019
Celebrating the launch of From Strategy to Action: A Guide to Getting Shit Done in the Public Sector
Events
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Getting Sh!t Done Club, Auckland May 2019
Alicia joined Lisa O'Neill, Digby Scott and Callum McKirdy at the Getting Sh!t Done Club NZ tour in 2019
Events
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New Zealand Treasury, Wellington, May 2019
Speaking to a group of senior officials about change management practices