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 …
In her first blog since maternity leave, Mayvin Director Sarah Fraser explores whether her tacit experience of working deeply with the unknown of parenthood might mean she brings a slightly different ‘self’ to the OD table. It’s my first proper day back at work after maternity leave today. I’m sat at my desk with a …
Inspired by the beautiful game, Mayvin Associate Sue Belgrave celebrates the understated courage and compassion of leaders who are open, honest and real. There have been many, many times when I have stood in front of groups talking about change and have said “we need to focus on what is working and, as we do that, we will …
Guest blogger Pete Burden invites you to face up to the discomfort of newness and change by taking some simple, powerful steps to becoming a truly digital leader. There are many definitions of what it means to become more ‘digital’ as an organisation or to be a digital leader. Many lists, models and theories. I tend …