Push out your payoff
Learn to shift your focus to longer-term outcomes for greater impact.
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Events
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Alicia McKay to appear at exclusive CEO Breakfast Workshop in Adelaide, 26 June 2024
Talking about Eiffel Tower leadership and local government challenges with LGASA
Thinking
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Boost your focus: reclaim your attention in a digital world
Reclaim your focus by creating physical, mental, and temporal space. Learn practical tips to overcome a hyper-digital life and make room for thought and connection.
Change
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How and when to quit things (and how to do it well)
Why you should leave before it's bad, end good things and not let guilt hold you back - and how to do it well.
Mildura Rural City Council: Local Legends in-house programme
Mildura Rural City Council invested in its Councillors and executive managers to build strong relationships and boost decisions after an organisational review.
Thinking
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Three ingredients of perspective
Perspective isn't pop-psychology or esoteric waffle. It's good decision-making practice with tangible application. In this post, I outline the three ingredients of perspective: horizon, significance, and connection.
Thinking
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WasteMINZ Conference May 2024
Click through to watch the hilarious - and powerful - videos from Alicia's high-impact keynote about perspective.
City of Mitcham: Local Legends in-house programme
City of Mitcham used the Local Legends programme to transform their decision-making.
Glen Eira City Council: Local Legends in-house programme
Glen Eira City Council used the Local Legends programme to help their leaders navigate financial uncertainty.
Strategy
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Why your strategy is failing and how to fix it
Most strategies experience a failure to choose, align, communication or embed. Here's how good strategy works and how to save yours from the brink.
Events
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Parks and Leisure Association VIC/TAS Melbourne, May 2024
Alicia was the star keynote at the Parks and Leisure association conference at Marvel Studios in Melbourne and a panel moderator.
Strategy
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Go off plan but stay on strategy
Priorities are being tested - how can you use this as an opportunity?
Thinking
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Stave off mediocrity with perspective and purpose
You've only got one life, and it's in your hands. Nobody else can decide the direction of your life and impact.
Events
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Alicia delivers a special keynote to the Secondary Principals Association NZ Conference in Queenstown
Alicia McKay was the keynote speaker at the SPANZ conference in Queenstown - with a special twist! Read on to learn more.
Events
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2024 LG Pro VIC Annual Conference, Melbourne, May 2024
Alicia was the MC, plus a keynote speaker, panelist, workshop facilitator and awards night host for the Local Government Professionals VIC conference at the MCG in May 2024.
Focus
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Time management for consultants - (and everyone else!)
Time management for consultants. Tips and tricks to optimise your schedule to get the most out of your days.
How to do scary things
There is only one thing separating scared people, and people who know how to do scary thing: action. Action converts imagination into reality.
The paradox of public leadership (or: just give them the damn picnic table)
Are you putting the wrong thing first and letting bureaucracy stand in the way of public outcomes?
Podcasts
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Life Lessons podcast with Alistair Burton
Making strategy simple, getting shit done and cutting through the crap
Thinking
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Understanding idea technology
The ideas we have shape the world we live in. We need to question those ideas regularly, to create a society we can be proud of.