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 …
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 …