Change

Make progress in a shifting, changing world. Advice on how to find your way through the fog.

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20 September 2020Auckland District Health Board, Online, September 2020Alicia McKay spoke to the ADHB change manager community of practice online - watch a video excerpt inside! 11 August 2020Beware the lure of the new: sustainable changeThe lure of the new is powerful, but it can come at the expense of the now. 10 August 2020Building buy in webinarIn this webinar, Alicia talks about how to build buy in for new initiatives 24 June 2020Act as if: how your identity changes your habitsYou don't need to worry about goals - think about your identity instead. What identity do you need to take on to build lasting change? 5 June 2020Online keynote: preparing for changeExcerpt from ADHB online keynote about thriving in change 15 April 2020Stop chasing cows: create systems changeWhen everything around us changes, it’s time to adapt the way we work. How do we make systems change easy? 30 March 2020Your new normal webinarIn this webinar, Alicia shares skills for playing a longer game 26 March 2020#VID19 conference, Online, March 2020Alicia's wildly popular #VID19 keynote: "Do the Right Sh*t: How to focus on what matters when everything seems f*cked" 24 March 2020Dialling into opportunity webinarIn this webinar, Alicia talks about how to accelerate progress in uncertainty 19 December 2019You can’t work with what you can’t seeWhether it’s too many projects too many tasks or too many black t-shirts, you can't work with what you can't see. 19 September 2019Practice makes autopilotAnything worth learning has a steep effort curve at the beginning 5 September 2019Design and delivery are better togetherWhen we connect the big picture and the ground-floor, we can make better, faster progress. Connect design and delivery. 28 August 2019Take the handbrake off: systems changeEliminate points of friction for systems change, by looking at policy, process, people and budgets. 18 July 2019Strike while the iron is hotKeep change momentum moving, if you want people to continue to care. 11 July 2019Change is instead of, not as well asChange can't be extra, we’re already at maximum capacity. Real change needs to be conversion, not addition. 6 July 2019All change is people changeWhether 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. 17 May 2019Earn trust: engaging for changeWhen 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. 25 February 2019Engaging for change webinarIn this webinar, Alicia talks about how to engage people in change. 8 February 2019The past is a foreign country: moving on from failuresThere is a right and a wrong way to handle project failures – one builds trust, the other breeds resentment. Move on from project failure the right way. 3 January 2019New Years Resolution Hack: Aim for habitsFocus on a single issue or behaviour to create better habits faster.