Making patterns productive is about sharing them, creating a commonly held and mutual narrative, and being vulnerable and open as we learn together. Here, Mayvin Director Dr James Traeger opens out Mayvin’s practice by sharing our own productive patterns. We like to talk to our clients about productive patterns. The idea is that in an …
If planning alone won’t cut it, what else can we count on in these uncertain times? Mayvin Director Martin Saville sets out three key leadership principles for navigating change. Well, this has been a funny old year, hasn’t it? Predictably unpredictable. It’s anyone’s guess what will happen to the UK’s relationship with the EU, along …
We are proud to partner with the University of Chichester business school to offer accreditation across the curriculum of leadership, personal and organisation development and design, as well as HR practice. Participants can complete a practitioner level programme to gain 20 credits at Postgraduate level 7 and can go on to an advanced level programme to …
How do you successfully manage a transition to a new role, and a new sector? Sarah Ireland, Head of Learning and People Development for St Margaret’s Hospice in Somerset and formerly Regional Director Asia and Head of Organisation Effectiveness for Oxfam GB, shares her experience. Eight months in to a new job I am wishing …
What does a systemic leadership approach look like in daily operational OD work? In the first in a series of blogs, Mayvin Associate Patricia Van Overstraeten shares her insights from the Mayvin Practice Groups. As a European systemic leadership practitioner for more than 11 years, Mayvin Directors James Traeger and Martin Saville were asking me …
Rather than aspiring to a perfect system, a worldview that constantly disappoints, why not see the organisation as a messy, beautiful human system? In the latest blog in our OD for Real series, Mayvin Director James Traeger reflects on his personal experience of Jewish New Year and its resonance with the here and now of organisational life. …
Mayvin Director Sarah Fraser on how OD can make a difference in the third sector when charities face the reality of balancing fundraising and impact. I was listening to Radio 4 recently, a repeat of a programme aired a while ago that I had missed, called The Charity Business. The episode was about charities and impact. It made for …
Mayvin’s Tony Nicholls illustrates how, when it comes to doing OD & D for real in organisations, OD models, tools and techniques are not enough: people matter too. What does it mean to do OD & D for real in organisations? When working with clients, I often find myself in conversations about why change remains …