Mayvin Director James Traeger asks if an overload of OD tools and techniques is endangering reflective learning and practice. I received links to two documents on the same day, from completely different sources, that connected to each other. Coincidence or synchronicity? One was an articulate article by Judi Marshall and Paul Tosey, lamenting ‘The demise of …
Mayvin and City law firm Farrer and Co were runners up in the “Breaking the mould” category at this year’s Legal Education and Training Group Awards Mayvin and Farrer and Co, a law firm synonymous with the highest quality legal advice and service, were highly commended at the Legal Education and Training Group (LETG) Awards …
Thick handbooks and metres of journal shelves have been taken up with discussion about what it means to undertake action research, how you can use it to challenge the traditional model of expert led research, and how you may (and may not) go about it. This can be more than a little overwhelming for the …
Last year, I was part of The New Skills for Learning and Organisation Development Practitioners programme (facilitated by James Traeger from Mayvin). In addition to developing my existing skills, my original aspiration for being part of the group was to understand how I could be more effective at using social media for sharing information in …
Back in February 2012, we asked a group of associates a question that had been troubling us since we formed Mayvin in 2011: How do we develop a programme of learning in C21L (21st Century leadership) context that is both sensitive to relationships and could work well online/in a virtual & socially networked environment? Luckily …
I sat in the café opposite the conference venue with a friend I had just made. We drank our cappuccinos and lamented with each other:
“When are we ever going to hear anything new? I mean everyone speaking at the Conference is bright, friendly, interesting… and on paper what they are offering seems sensible. But it doesn’t really address what I face in my organisation. more The complexity. The chaos. The sudden change of direction. By the time I’ve sold any of these ideas to my CEO, he’s moved on, or been kicked out! How can we plan for real development in this environment? At a time when the need to learn fast is more urgent than ever?”
‘There’s so little content we don’t know how we got it through’, screams the headline of the Daily Telegraph (9/12/11). This story is about how an exam board insider is blowing the whistle on the poor quality of learning at GCSE level. The lack of content, we are to believe, is regarded as a bad thing, a scary thought that our children may not be being tested hard enough, or that they might not know important ‘facts’.