Risk
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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.
Essays
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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
Work
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Is strategy the future of work?
ATMs did not spell the end for bank tellers, and machines are unlikely to spell the end for strategists. The demand for jobs with critical analysis, meaning-making and leadership skills is predicted to skyrocket.
Events
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Author talk at Unity Books,Wellington, 2019
Celebrating the launch of From Strategy to Action in Wellington.
Change
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Earn trust: engaging for change
When it comes to rolling out change, courting is the key. We can't go straight to total commitment and participation without earning our way along.
Events
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Magiq Conference, Wellington, May 2019
Dinner keynote on engaging teams and organisational change
Turning strategy into action with Auckland Council Community Services
Service improvement planning with Alicia McKay.
Say no nicely: challenging conversations
Setting priorities and following through requires us to say no to things - but that can be hard. Here's some helpful advice to say no, nicely.
Events
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Getting Sh!t Done Club, Wellington, March 2019
Alicia joined Lisa O'Neill, Digby Scott and Callum McKirdy at the Getting Sh!t Done Club NZ tour in 2019
You have plenty of time - it's space you need
You've already lost 8 hours, one more won't help. Try making space instead.
Engaging for change webinar
In this webinar, Alicia talks about how to engage people in change.
Focus
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You can do anything, but not everything
Setting focused priorities is hard work. Here are three useful tips.
Books
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From Strategy to Action: A guide to getting shit done in the public sector
From Strategy to Action is a book for public sector managers tired of spinning their wheels and prepared to tackle the challenging complexity of public service.