How can practice-based learning support your development at times of discontinous change? At our next Mayvin Community event, we’ll be joined by an ‘un-panel’ of speakers from different sectors who will share their stories of practice development in uncertain times. Earlier in the year, the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) joined us …
Later this month, Mayvin Director Martin Saville is facilitating a Key Skills workshop on embodied leadership for HR Business Partners, organised by the Central London branch of the CIPD. Here, Martin introduces the key principles of an embodied approach and looks at how it can enable people to feel centred and better resourced when under pressure. …
At times of unprecedented complexity, pressure and ambiguity, it is a natural response to put up psychological defences. In his latest blog, Mayvin Director Martin Saville invites us all to practise building tolerance for anxiety instead of trying to avoid it. Back in December I shared three leadership principles for uncertain times, based on our work with …
Dr Naomi Stanford, organisation design practitioner, teacher, and author, shares her thoughts on reflective learning following our latest Mayvin Community event ‘The Development Trap’: How can you learn when there is no time for learning? At the event, we explored how a ‘just in time’ leadership model can enable people to adapt and learn close …
At our next Mayvin Community event, ‘The Development Trap’, we will joined by Organisational Development and Design practitioners from the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) to share how a ‘just in time’ leadership model can enable people to adapt and learn close to the grain of the work in discontinous times. Here, …
Unprecedented change – whether it is Brexit, power shifts or new funding models – means we need to learn fast, reflect on the job and become more adaptive by changing our behaviours. But how do you develop the skills to do this, and help others to do so, when there is no time for learning? …
Whether it’s because of changes in context, lack of resources or shifts in relationships, NGOs are thinking about transformation. To create truly transformative change, Organisation Development (OD) needs to be an equal partner in the process, says practitioner Sarah Ireland. Here, Sarah shares her top tips for successful change. For me, transformation doesn’t mean change for …
Reflecting on our experience within Mayvin and with major clients, we see that at the heart of culture is an interconnected web of relationships. Culture change comes about through changes in those very relationships. Mayvin’s Principal Consultant Tony Nicholls shares his thoughts on how to create beneficial changes in organisations by nurturing the relationships within them. …