With the digital age heralded as the end of expertise, Mayvin’s Dr James Traeger considers what new possibilities this brings to Practice-based Learning. The day after Rob Warwick and I went to Pagham Harbour – where we stood on the spit of pebbles, that felt like it was miles out to sea – and commissioned …
Dr Rob Warwick, Reader in Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester introduces his latest research project with Mayvin Director Dr James Traeger: Practice-based Learning. Ideas are bubbling up for a new research project. And one keeps coming back to me and it is this: what might Self-Managed Learning (SML) look like in the 21st …
Mayvin Director James Traeger sees feminist leadership as part of creating a more inclusive culture. But could staying silent be his wisest contribution to the conversation? We sat in a circle, myself and five women. The speaker at this conference had just described herself, amongst other things, as a feminist leader. We were tasked to …
Tony Nicholls, Mayvin Principal Consultant, demonstrates how the way in which we see organisations and our field of practice as ‘things’ can constrain our thinking and effectiveness as practitioners. As part of our emerging thinking on where Organisation Development meets Organisation Design, I previously wrote about how “curiosity, reflection and systems thinking could be the spaces …
Mayvin Director James Traeger writes about his experience of speaking at an unusual ‘conference’, Inexpert2018, which celebrated the power of inexpertise and not knowing. Inexpert2018 struck me as a great idea. Inexpert creator, Steve Chapman, describes the idea: ‘In a world pre-disposed to speaker events where we are invited to listen to those with knowledge and answers, Inexpert asked what would …
At Mayvin, we have been wrestling with the question of how Organisation Development meets Organisation Design in the real world of complex client systems. This blog adds to the conversation by bringing together two lines of inquiry articulated in previous posts. Claire Wightman offered an excellent summary of Organisation Development meets Organisation Design by describing how …
Dr Steve Marshall is the Academic Director of the Executive Doctorate in Organisational Change at Ashridge Executive Education. He is an action researcher and OD consultant using artful, creative methods to expand the ways we think about and relate to our organisations and workplaces. He is also a photographer and this is his story of …
Mayvin’s Principal Consultant Tony Nicholls looks at how the discomfort generated by something as simple as dress code can help us to better understand our sense of self. I’ve noticed several articles popping up lately about dress code and culture change, with headlines such as ‘Do we still need to dress for the job‘? An article I shared on …